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Strings Woodwind
Brass Percussion
How?
• Buzz into a mouthpiece
The Trumpet
Mouthpiece Valves
Bell
The French Horn
Valves
Mouth Piece
Right hand in BELL
The Trombone
Slide
Mouth PieceAs you can see this instrument has a slide instead of valves.
The Trombone
The Tuba
The tuba is the largest of all the Brass instruments.
Muted
• A device used to change the sound and volume.
PlaceMuteInBell ofinstrument
Muted• A well known muted
sound you may have heard is at the beginning of Paulo Nutini’s ‘Pencil full of lead’.
The Brass Family
• All the instruments are made of Brass.
• They all have a bell shape at the end of the instrument.
• 3 have valves to produce different notes and 1 instrument has a slide.
• This is the loudest family in the orchestra.
Listen to each of the brass instruments individually
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjMWOzeuRiw
