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Brass Instruments
Brass instruments are lip-vibrated instruments (labrosones). Here you can ask questions about the different types of brass instruments, methods of cleaning them, etc.
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What vibrates with a brass instrument that the player can adjust?
The player's lips vibrate in the mouthpiece. The player's embouchure (lip formation and facial muscles) can be adjusted to change the pitch of the note being played.
What does cornet mean in music term?
A cornet is a brass wind instrument. It's very similar in sound and appearance to a trumpet.
Which pair of brass instruments most closely resembles each other in appearance?
A euphonium and a tuba look pretty similar- but a tuba is bigger
first, make your lips like your about to say the letter "m". Place the mouthpiece in your Trumpet and on to the center of you mouth. If your to far off this could develop into a bad habit and make you sound worse. Then buzz with you lips like your imitating a fart or a bee into your mouthpiece. if any sort of sound comes out then there you go! that's how you play the trumpet.
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Why are the brass instruments in an orchestra positioned where they are?
i dont know but i think near the back because it is loouder to hear than the instruments at the front
If you mean, "was the trombone invented in America," then the answer is no. The trombone predates "America" or The United States of America. The trombone was invented in Europe around the mid-1400s, based on a sort of "slide trumpet" which had telescoping tubing to play different notes. The United States of America became a country in 1776.
What is an antonym for trumpet?
The closest synonym for the word trombone might be its early version, the sackbut. Prior to the early 18th century, that is what the instrument was called in England.
In Italian, it's still called the trombone.
In German, it's a Posaune.
There is really no antonym for trombone, just as there cannot be for automobile.
What musical family does the rhythm Sticks Trombone Tuba and the Trumpet belong to?
Trumpet, trombone, and tuba are all brass instruments. The other is a percussion instrument.
Each time you press a key on a brass instrument then blow into the mouthpiece that key that you have pressed down is compressing the air which leads to a note A, B, C, D, E, F, G.
Pressing down the valve increases the length of the tube. Valve #2= ½ step, #1=1 step and #3=1½ step. The length of the tube determines the pitch of the sound. The valves all open will play (B-flat horn) a C, G, C'.
If you play a C and, with your embouchure the same, press down the 2nd valve your pitch will drop to B...press 1 and your pitch will drop to B-flat. Press 1 and 2 together and you drop the pitch to A.
If you start at G (all open), 2 is an F#, 1 is F, 1&2 (or 3) is E, 2&3 is Eb, 1&3 is D, 1&2&3 is C#...Then you are back down to C with all valves open.
Important note is that the fingerings he is stating are for Trumpet. Other brass instruments have different fingering for those notes but regardless the valves drop chromatically the same amount
Meaning that 2nd valve drops one half step on all brass (except Trombone)
1st valve is one whole step
1st and 2nd together(or third alone) is 3 half steps
2nd and 3rd valve together are 2 whole steps
1st and 3rd together or 4th alone are 5 half steps
1st 2nd and 3rd together or 4th and 2nd together are 3 whole steps
1st and 4th together are 7 half steps
1st 2nd and 4th together are 4 whole steps
2nd 3rd and 4th together are 9 half steps
1st 3rd and 4th together are 5 whole steps
1st 2nd 3rd and 4th together are 11 half steps
Some concert instruments have more than 4 valves, more with only 3.
also note that with a 4th valve you can go nearly an entire octave while on the same partial (a partial is the base note you start with, open/no valves pressed).
When the keys are pressed the valves move down in the cylinder. The valves are like round metal tubes that have holes drilled through them. When the valve moves down, the holes line up with two opposing brass tubes and lets the sound pass through.
It's a complicate combination of pushing keys to make the valves go up or down. A spring is located at the bottom of the metal valves to push them back up when the keys are released.
If a brass instrument was stretched out without the curves in it, it would be so long that it would not be feasible. Everyone has seen those trumpets in movies depicting the Romans where they play as the army triumphantly enters the city
The longer you make the tube with valve combinations, the lower the fundamental tone. The lip is used to play harmonics of that fundamental.
Do woodwind or brass instruments make the higher pitch?
Um, I think you're mixing things up a bit.
String instruments aren't blown. They are played with a bow (arco) or by plucking the strings (which is called pizzicato). The string instruments' pitches are affected by the ''tautness (how tightly they're pulled) or tightness of of the strings and where the fingers are placed to make the string more taut and make the pitch higher.''
Woodwind and Brass instruments are blown and as far as I know blowing harder just makes them louder. ''Wind instrument pitch is mostly changed by changing the length of the vibrations in the tube (i.e., in the bore.) This happens every time the player changes the fingering: opening holes shortens the bore, closing them lengthens it. There are also ways of changing the pitch by changing breath pressure or embouchure tension (lips).''
I borrowed some information from other people's answers in order to get this one. (Thank you to them). I hope this helps by the way.
The alto horn is an instrument tuned in E-flat, a member of the saxhorn family still encountered in brass bands in the United Kingdom where it is known as a "tenor horn".
How do you finger a low f on a trumpet?
first valve down gives you Fabove middle C. F# is the lowest note that a common Bb trumpet can play without the use of any slides. It has a fingering of 1-2-3
I expect you're confused with a piece of computer software called "Trumpet Winsock" that used to be used for connecting to the internet way back in the old days. You can find the company at http://www.trumpet.com.au/ with information about the program, though it isn't related to actual trumpets. Nor related to windsocks.
Why do you have to buzz your lips to make a sound on a brass instruments?
Just like reed instruments, brass instruments need some sort of vibration to make music. Reed instruments use the vibration of the reed against the mouthpiece. Brass instruments need the vibration of the embouchure to make a pure sound.
wind or air just passing by,,in the open or in a tube, like a trumpet etc will make SOUND (making music is another thing) but it has a very weak soud or note, its when it vibrates that it creats full or intended sound, you use the buzzing procedure to induce the air to vibrate and produce sound . The quicker you produce the buzzing the higher the pich of the sound. ie. if you produce a "buzzing" effect of 250 cycles per second you produce the note Do,Ut,or C in English, if you are able to make the air vibrate 440 times per second you produce the note LA , A in English. Hoiw do ypou produce a higher note , pitch? by stretching the lips, this causes it to vibrate faster... difficult? you bet..It takes years of practice to master it,,
Are brass instruments high or low pitch?
They can be both high and low pitch. There are brass instruments that are considered "high voices" like trumpets, there are brass instruments that are considered "middle voices" like french horns, and then there are brass instruments that are considered "low voices" like trombones, euphoniums, and tubas. All brass instruments have a pretty large range of pitches they can play depending on how good the player is, so the pitches can greatly vary.
What makes a tuba make a sound?
You blow into it with a large "raspberry" type fassion, tightening your lips to get a higher pitch.
Construction of the french horn?
The French horn is a coiled brass wind instrument with a wide bell and a funnel shaped mouth- piece.
Where did the french horn get its name from?
The correct name for the instrument is simply the horn, or F horn, or horn in F. That F refers to the key in which it plays. People erroneously thought the F stood for French, and the name stuck. There was something unsatisfying about calling an instrument the horn without adding a modifier to the name.
They can be any.
Ranging from Soprano, to Alto, to Tenor, to Bass, all the way to Contrabass.
Is it okay to continue playing a wind instrument after having a pneumothorax?
i played trumpet for six years before my first pneumothorax. I resumed a light practice routine 2 months after discharge, and promptly got a second pneumothorax. I'm sorry, but i think the condition precludes any playing in a professional capacity. Occassional, light practice is probably fine though. Depends on the individual. All the best...
What is a mute and how is it used on a brass instrument and how does it affect the sound?
This question has many parts:
What is a mute? A mute is a device that changes the sound of the instrument it is used on. It is not a device, necessarily, for making an instrument quieter, although that may be a by-product of the change.
How are they used on Brass instruments? Primarily, mutes are objects which are placed in the bell of a brass instrument. Some mutes block the passage of certain frequencies, others improve the coupling between the bore and the air for certain frequencies (causing them to lose less energy, therefore sound stronger). Some pass the sound from the instrument through resonating chambers which modify the sound. Some add a "port", which the player can close or partially-close with their hand, making a wah-wah sound. The variety of mutes is great, and some even choose to make their own. They vary in materials, shapes, porting, resonances, etc.
How does it affect the sound? This can be answered very simply, for instance, as appropriate to an elementary-school student, or in very complex mathematical terms. I'll attempt to strike a middle-ground here.
First, you need to understand how a brass instrument makes sound. The instrument appears to be quite simple: a brass tube with a bell at one end and a "landing pad" of sorts where the player's lips can vibrate. In reality, the bore of brass instruments are complex, the mouthpiece is acoustically complex, and the bell, although easy to describe, is still anything but simple. All together, these elements combine to cause the brass instrument to act like the double-reeds, acoustically. All this means is that brass instruments can resonate on each of the harmonics of a complex tone at the fundamental pitch, which is determined by the length of the instrument. To play different notes, the player switches from harmonic-to-harmonic and changes the length of the horn, either by a valve or telescoping tubing. The odd limit is that the actual fundamental is harder to play than the double reeds (and other 'stopped conical pipe' instruments). The availability of the instrument to resonate at many harmonics also affects its tone: brass instruments have them all, so the sound is bright and even metallic.
To get a different tone, the brass player can use a filter, resonator or coupler. These three devices, in acoustic terms, reduce or block ranges of frequency, use an acoustic structure to increase the power of certain frequencies (often by scavenging the power from other frequencies) or changes the impedance of the bell to make some frequencies get from the bore to the air (where the audience can hear it) with less loss of energy, respectively. All of these types are performed with mutes, and they are all placed into the bell of the instrument.
One exception to this description is the French Horn. In the case of the horn, the player's hand is placed in the bell, and used in all but the most exceptional cases. But rather than simply modifying the tone of the instrument, a skilled player can 'stop' the horn (by nearly blocking off the bell's coupling to the air with their hand) and get a pitch one semitone higher than the normally-placed hand. This was used to get chromatic pitches with the 'natural' horn, which had no valves. Derived from the hunting horn, the Natural Horn was still in use in Beethoven's day (his Horn Sonata, for instance, was written for such a valveless horn). The stopped note is very different in tone from the normal sound of the horn, so this is a form of muting, and composers took advantage of the different tone for emotional effect.
What is a mute and how are they used on brass instruments and how does it affect the sound?
This question has many parts:
What is a mute? A mute is a device that changes the sound of the instrument it is used on. It is not a device, necessarily, for making an instrument quieter, although that may be a by-product of the change.
How are they used on Brass instruments? Primarily, mutes are objects which are placed in the bell of a brass instrument. Some mutes block the passage of certain frequencies, others improve the coupling between the bore and the air for certain frequencies (causing them to lose less energy, therefore sound stronger). Some pass the sound from the instrument through resonating chambers which modify the sound. Some add a "port", which the player can close or partially-close with their hand, making a wah-wah sound. The variety of mutes is great, and some even choose to make their own. They vary in materials, shapes, porting, resonances, etc.
How does it affect the sound? This can be answered very simply, for instance, as appropriate to an elementary-school student, or in very complex mathematical terms. I'll attempt to strike a middle-ground here.
First, you need to understand how a brass instrument makes sound. The instrument appears to be quite simple: a brass tube with a bell at one end and a "landing pad" of sorts where the player's lips can vibrate. In reality, the bore of brass instruments are complex, the mouthpiece is acoustically complex, and the bell, although easy to describe, is still anything but simple. All together, these elements combine to cause the brass instrument to act like the double-reeds, acoustically. All this means is that brass instruments can resonate on each of the harmonics of a complex tone at the fundamental pitch, which is determined by the length of the instrument. To play different notes, the player switches from harmonic-to-harmonic and changes the length of the horn, either by a valve or telescoping tubing. The odd limit is that the actual fundamental is harder to play than the double reeds (and other 'stopped conical pipe' instruments). The availability of the instrument to resonate at many harmonics also affects its tone: brass instruments have them all, so the sound is bright and even metallic.
To get a different tone, the brass player can use a filter, resonator or coupler. These three devices, in acoustic terms, reduce or block ranges of frequency, use an acoustic structure to increase the power of certain frequencies (often by scavenging the power from other frequencies) or changes the impedance of the bell to make some frequencies get from the bore to the air (where the audience can hear it) with less loss of energy, respectively. All of these types are performed with mutes, and they are all placed into the bell of the instrument.
One exception to this description is the French Horn. In the case of the horn, the player's hand is placed in the bell, and used in all but the most exceptional cases. But rather than simply modifying the tone of the instrument, a skilled player can 'stop' the horn (by nearly blocking off the bell's coupling to the air with their hand) and get a pitch one semitone higher than the normally-placed hand. This was used to get chromatic pitches with the 'natural' horn, which had no valves. Derived from the hunting horn, the Natural Horn was still in use in Beethoven's day (his Horn Sonata, for instance, was written for such a valveless horn). The stopped note is very different in tone from the normal sound of the horn, so this is a form of muting, and composers took advantage of the different tone for emotional effect.
