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  2. Brass instrument - Wikipedia

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    Brass instruments are one of the major classical instrument families and are played across a range of musical ensembles. Orchestras include a varying number of brass instruments depending on music style and era, typically: two to three trumpets; two to four French horns; two tenor trombones; one bass trombone; one tuba

  3. Category:Brass instruments - Wikipedia

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    A brass instrument is a musical instrument that uses a cupped mouthpiece shaped in a way that allows the player's lips to vibrate to generate the instrument's sound. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Brass instruments .

  4. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)

  5. Tuba - Wikipedia

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    The tuba (UK: / ˈ tj uː b ə /; [1] US: / ˈ t uː b ə /) is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibration – a buzz – into a mouthpiece.

  6. List of period instruments - Wikipedia

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    Early musical instruments; Historical Brass Instruments as described by Antique Sound Workshop, Ltd. This page was last edited on 19 January 2024, at 03:55 ...

  7. Sousaphone - Wikipedia

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    The sousaphone (/ ˈ s uː z ə f oʊ n / SOO-zə-fohn) is a brass musical instrument in the tuba family. Created around 1893 by J. W. Pepper at the direction of American bandleader John Philip Sousa (after whom the instrument was then named), it was designed to be easier to play than the concert tuba while standing or marching, as well as to carry the sound of the instrument above the heads ...

  8. Euphonium - Wikipedia

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    The euphonium is a medium-sized, 3- or 4-valve, often compensating, conical-bore, tenor-voiced brass instrument that derives its name from the Ancient Greek word εὔφωνος euphōnos, [2] meaning "well-sounding" or "sweet-voiced" (εὖ eu means "well" or "good" and φωνή phōnē means "sound", hence "of good sound"). The euphonium is a ...

  9. Family of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification, such as the Hornbostel-Sachs system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families. Some commonly recognized families are: Strings family; Woodwind family ...