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  2. Tenor horn - Wikipedia

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    The tenor horn's conical bore and deep mouthpiece produce a mellow, rounded tone that is often used as a middle voice, supporting the melodies of the trumpets, cornets, or flugelhorns, and fills the gap above the lower tenor and bass instruments (the trombone, baritone horn, euphonium, and tuba). Its valves are typically, though not exclusively ...

  3. List of horn techniques - Wikipedia

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    However, playing a 3rd space C (F-horn, open) and repeating the stopped horn, the pitch will lower a half-step to a B-natural (or 1/2 step above B ♭, the next lower partial). The hand horn technique developed in the classical period, with music pieces requiring the use of covering the bell to various degrees to lower the pitch accordingly.

  4. List of transposing instruments - Wikipedia

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    Tenor recorder: C 4, formerly G 3: Basset recorder F 3: Bass recorder: C 3: When notated in treble clef Great bass recorder: F 2: Contrabass recorder C 2: Saxhorns: Flugelhorn: B ♭ 3: Tenor horn: E ♭ 3: Baritone horn B ♭ 2: When notated in treble clef Saxophone Piccolo saxophone: B ♭ 4: Sopranino saxophone: E ♭ 4: Soprano saxophone: B ...

  5. Mellophone - Wikipedia

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    Tuning is done solely by adjusting the tuning slide, unlike the French horn where the pitch is affected by the hand position in the bell. Fingerings for the mellophone are the same as fingerings for the trumpet, tenor horn, and most valved brass instruments. Owing to its use primarily outside concert music, there is little solo literature for ...

  6. Saxhorn - Wikipedia

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    E ♭ alto/tenor saxhorn: alto/tenor horn; B ♭ baritone saxhorn: baritone horn; The B ♭ bass, E ♭ bass, and B ♭ contrabass saxhorns are basically the same as the modern euphonium, E ♭ bass tuba, and BB ♭ contrabass tuba, respectively. Historically, much confusion exists as to the nomenclature of the various instruments in different ...

  7. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Instrument Picture Classification H-S Number Elementary organology class Origin Common classification Relation Celesta-struck idiophone-metallophone-set of percussion plaques

  8. Gemshorn - Wikipedia

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    fingering chart. 16th-century illustrations show an instrument which had only a few tone holes, and a very limited range. The intact clay gemshorn, mentioned above, which was found beneath a 15th-century house, had a chromatic range of one octave. Modern makers have often chosen to build them using the Baroque recorder fingering.

  9. Bassoon - Wikipedia

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    The middle finger typically stays on the centre hole on the tenor joint. It can also move to a lever used for E ♭ 5, also a trill key. The ring finger operates, on most models, one key. Some bassoons have an alternate E ♭ key above the tone hole, predominantly for trills, but many do not. The smallest finger operates two side keys on the ...