Brass Instruments

For small intervals, there's usually a system of valves to alter the length of the resonating column of air and thus changing the pitch. For larger intervals, the player changes the shape of their lips in a specific way to create overtones. In some rarer cases, one hand may be inserted in the bell to lower the pitch by a semitone (see French horn, bukkehorn) or fingerholes used instead of valves (bukkehorn, zinck, serpent).

wen u blow into it, the air goes through and it makes a sound. when you move your lips, the pitch changes. The rotors are attached to tubes that change the pitch. when you put down that finger, the rotor moves and opens the tube that changes the pitch. Your right hand can also change the tone and the pitch. if you put your hand farther into the bell, the pitch goes down and the tone gets more muffled. When your hand comes out more, the pitch goes up and the tone becomes less muffled

a trombone cansmear by trying to slur like a trumpet. this is done by trying to play a slurred note without making a small tounging in between the notes

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The word trumpet comes from the 14th century and is a variation of the word triumph. Throughout history, trumpets have been associated with three things: signaling armies, splendorous music for royalty, and in religious rituals. The main purpose of trumpets in the 14th century was as a signaling device to convey orders to soldiers in the midst of battle so that the army could triumph over their enemy.

Online I found some info. "A brass instrument is a musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a tubular resonator. They are also called labrosones, literally meaning "lip-vibrated instruments" (Baines, 1993)." Hope this helps!

All of the common brass instruments of a band or orchestra, except the trombone, have relatively short mouthpieces, flared bells, and valves. This includes trumpets (and cornets), French horns, euphoniums (and baritone horns), and tubas. The trumpet is the smallest, so it has the shortest mouthpiece. The larger instruments have larger mouthpieces.

The bell of a French horn is more flared compared to its tubing before the bell, than other brass instruments. The Sousaphone, a large instrument that is a variation on the tuba but adapted for carrying in a marching band, also has a very large bell, much larger than a tuba's bell.

Most trombones have slides instead of valves, but there are some valve trombones.

Bugles, natural horns, and older horns that aren't in common use any more, such as the ophicleide, don't have valves, although they have mouthpieces similar to the modern brass instruments, and flared bells.

The sound of any brass instrument starts with buzzing your lips into a mouthpiece, which agitates the column of air inside the tube that makes up the instrument, causing vibrations in that air column which travel through the outside air as sound waves.

By buzzing your lips faster, you can force multiple waves inside the tube, so that (for example) two equal waves are occupying the tube instead of just one. Since this means twice as many waves are produced in the same amount of time, you have a higher frequency--thus a higher pitch (an octave higher, to be exact). There is a mathematical formula called the harmonic series that can plot the different frequencies (notes) that can be produced by this "overblowing" method.

The other way you change pitch on a brass instrument is by changing the length of the tube--shorter air column, higher pitch; longer air column, lower pitch. Trombones do this the easy way--they have a slide which, the further you push it out, the longer the tube, thus the lower the pitch. This wouldn't be very practical for a tuba or sousaphone (though it would be fun to watch), so instead they have valves (usually three on a sousaphone) that redirect the airflow through extra bits of tubing to make the air column longer and thus lower the pitch.

Between the two--changing the speed of lip-buzzing, and using valves (or a slide) to change the length of the tube--the brass instruments are able to cover all the notes of the chromatic scale.

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No one knows for certain as it is so old.

The oldest trumpets date back to 1500 B.C.E. and earlier. The bronze and silver trumpets from Tutankhamun's grave in Egypt, bronze lurs from Scandinavia, and metal trumpets from China date back to this period.[

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Probably some type of piccolo pocket trumpet.

They are the trumpet, French horn, trombone, baritone, and tuba.

This is the "French horn" (a name more familiar and popular than the plain, official "horn").

A baritone and a euphonium are really similar so the baritone is in the euphonium category or in the brass instruments category.

The Euphonium was invented by Sommers of Weimar in 1843. Weimar is a city in Germany.

Brass instruments are played by pressing the lips together and blowing air to produce a buzzing sound. A mouthpiece projects this sound into the horn, which projects it further. The pitch of the sound can be changed two ways. One is by changing the pitch of the buzz. This will only get you a certain number of notes based on the key of your instrument (harmonic series). The other way is by lengthening your instrument. The longer the lower. On a trombone, it's easy to see. You push out the slide, the pitch goes down. On valve instruments, it's a bit more complicated. Pressing a valve opens a passageway so that the air can take a detour. Pressing a certain valve lowers the pitch a certain amount and you can get all the notes you want with different combinations of valves. On a trombone, it's simply how far you push out the slide.

No - there are no reeds at all in what are called the "brass instruments". The distinguishing feature of this group is that the sound is made by vibrating your lips on the mouthpiece, inviting the column of air in the instrument body to vibrate in sympathy with your lips. The air column amplifies the small movements of air your lips make - as you find out if you stand next to a trumpeter. I used to share a room with a trombonist, and know....!

The fact that the instruments are usually made of brass is really neither here nor there in terms of how this "family" works, so it's not really an ideal name for the family....

Instruments in a "silver" band work just the same, but tend to have a slightly sweeter sound.

The simple answer is the tuba (the BBb tuba), however, the French Horn, bass trombone and tuba are all capable of playing very low notes. It really depends on the players lip, as the best ones can "lip notes down" a great deal.

There are also a few "freak instruments" like the sub-contrabass horn (only a couple in the world - don't write for it unless you know someone who has one) that people are constantly making and inventing, however, none of these are considered "standard instruments".

It will be difficult to find free sheet music for popular music, because most of it will be copyrighted... music is copyrighted until the composer has been dead for 100 years. After the composer has been dead for 100 years, the music is then considered to be in the public domain, which means it can then be used for free. So, music like Christmas carols or church hymns is in the public domain. However, if someone makes an arrangement of a public domain piece of music, that arrangement is now considered copyrighted by the arranger, and that arrangement is not in the public domain until the arranger has been dead for 100 years.

They're around 8-12 pounds depending on the model and brand of the instrument. For example a Besson Prestige weighs 10.3 pounds where as a Besson Sovereign weighs 9.4 pounds. See related link for specifications.

Both the oboe and the French horn are both particularly difficult instruments. The fact that an oboist has to make his own reeds doesn't make it harder, but unless he's a good reed maker, he'll be unreliable. Oboe playing depends so much on the quality of the reed that you have to be very good at making them. I can't tell you much about the French horn but I think it's quite hard to place the right note before playing it, the oboe doesn't have this problem.