Which Instrument Is Not in the Brass Family

Grade of musical instruments

A contumely instrument is a musical musical instrument that produces audio by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Contumely instruments are also called labrosones ^[1] or labrophones, from Latin and Greek elements significant 'lip' and 'sound'.

There are several factors involved in producing different pitches on a brass instrument. Slides, valves, crooks (though they are rarely used today), or keys are used to modify vibratory length of tubing, thus irresolute the available harmonic series, while the role player's embouchure, lip tension and air flow serve to select the specific harmonic produced from the bachelor serial.

The view of most scholars (see organology) is that the term "brass musical instrument" should be defined by the way the sound is made, every bit above, and non by whether the instrument is really made of contumely. Thus one finds brass instruments made of wood, like the alphorn, the cornett, the ophidian and the didgeridoo, while some woodwind instruments are made of brass, like the saxophone.

Families [edit]

Modern brass instruments by and large come up in one of two families:

• Valved contumely instruments use a set of valves (typically three or four but every bit many as seven or more in some cases) operated by the actor'due south fingers that introduce additional tubing, or crooks, into the instrument, changing its overall length. This family includes all of the modern brass instruments except the trombone: the trumpet, horn (likewise called French horn), euphonium, and tuba, as well every bit the cornet, flugelhorn, tenor horn (alto horn), baritone horn, sousaphone, and the mellophone. As valved instruments are predominant amongst the brasses today, a more thorough discussion of their workings can be found below. The valves are unremarkably piston valves, but tin can be rotary valves; the latter are the norm for the horn (except in France) and are likewise common on the tuba.
• Slide brass instruments use a slide to modify the length of tubing. The main instruments in this category are the trombone family, though valve trombones are occasionally used, especially in jazz. The trombone family unit's ancestor, the sackbut, and the folk instrument bazooka are besides in the slide family.

There are two other families that have, in full general, become functionally obsolete for practical purposes. Instruments of both types, however, are sometimes used for period-instrument performances of Baroque or Classical pieces. In more modern compositions, they are occasionally used for their intonation or tone colour.

• Natural contumely instruments only play notes in the instrument's harmonic series. These include the bugle and older variants of the trumpet and horn. The trumpet was a natural brass instrument prior to near 1795, and the horn earlier nigh 1820. In the 18th century, makers developed interchangeable crooks of unlike lengths, which let players use a single instrument in more than one cardinal. Natural instruments are still played for period performances and some formalism functions, and are occasionally found in more than modern scores, such as those by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss.
• Keyed or Fingered brass instruments used holes forth the body of the musical instrument, which were covered by fingers or by finger-operated pads (keys) in a like way to a woodwind instrument. These included the cornett, snake, ophicleide, keyed bugle and keyed trumpet. They are more than difficult to play than valved instruments.

Diameter taper and diameter [edit]

Contumely instruments may also be characterised by ii generalizations about geometry of the bore, that is, the tubing between the mouthpiece and the flaring of the tubing into the bell. Those ii generalizations are with regard to

• the caste of taper or conicity of the bore and
• the diameter of the bore with respect to its length.

Cylindrical vs. conical bore [edit]

While all modern valved and slide brass instruments consist in role of conical and in part of cylindrical tubing, they are divided equally follows:

• Cylindrical bore brass instruments are those in which approximately constant diameter tubing predominates. Cylindrical bore brass instruments are mostly perceived as having a brighter, more penetrating tone quality compared to conical bore contumely instruments. The trumpet, and all trombones are cylindrical diameter. In item, the slide blueprint of the trombone necessitates this.
• Conical bore brass instruments are those in which tubing of constantly increasing diameter predominates. Conical diameter instruments are generally perceived every bit having a more mellow tone quality than the cylindrical diameter brass instruments. The "British brass band" group of instruments fall into this category. This includes the flugelhorn, cornet, tenor horn (alto horn), baritone horn, horn, euphonium and tuba. Some conical bore brass instruments are more conical than others. For example, the flugelhorn differs from the cornet by having a college pct of its tubing length conical than does the cornet, in improver to possessing a wider diameter than the cornet. In the 1910s and 1920s, the Due east. A. Couturier company congenital brass ring instruments utilizing a patent for a continuous conical bore without cylindrical portions even for the valves or tuning slide.

Whole-tube vs. half-tube [edit]

The resonances of a brass instrument resemble a harmonic serial, with the exception of the lowest resonance, which is significantly lower than the primal frequency of the series that the other resonances are overtones of.^[2] Depending on the instrument and the skill of the histrion, the missing key of the series can even so be played as a pedal tone, which relies mainly on vibration at the overtone frequencies to produce the fundamental pitch.^{[3] [4]} The bore diameter in relation to length determines whether the fundamental tone or the first overtone is the everyman partial practically available to the player in terms of playability and musicality, dividing brass instruments into whole-tube and one-half-tube instruments. These terms stem from a comparison to organ pipes, which produce the same pitch every bit the fundamental pedal tone of a brass instrument of equal length.^[5]

Neither the horns nor the trumpet could produce the 1st note of the harmonic series ... A horn giving the C of an open up 8 ft organ pipe had to be 16 ft (five g). long. Half its length was practically useless ... information technology was found that if the calibre of tube was sufficiently enlarged in proportion to its length, the instrument could be relied upon to give its fundamental note in all normal circumstances. – Cecil Forsyth, Orchestration, p. 86^[6]

• Whole-tube instruments take larger bores in relation to tubing length, and can play the fundamental tone with ease and precision. The tuba and euphonium are examples of whole-tube brass instruments.
• One-half-tube instruments accept smaller bores in relation to tubing length and cannot easily or accurately play the key tone. The second partial (starting time overtone) is the everyman notation of each tubing length applied to play on half-tube instruments. The trumpet and horn are examples of half-tube brass instruments.

Other contumely instruments [edit]

The instruments in this list fall for various reasons outside the scope of much of the discussion to a higher place regarding families of brass instruments.

• Alphorn (forest)
• Conch (shell)
• Didgeridoo (woods, Australia)
• Natural horn (no valves or slides—except tuning crooks in some cases)
• Jazzophone
• Keyed bugle (keyed brass)
• Keyed trumpet (keyed brass)
• Serpent (keyed brass)
• Ophicleide (keyed brass)
• Shofar (animal horn)
• Vladimirskiy rozhok (wood, Russia)
• Vuvuzela (simple short horn, origins disputed merely achieved fame or notoriety through many plastic examples in the 2010 World Cup)
• Lur

Valves [edit]

Brass instrument piston valves

Valves are used to modify the length of tubing of a contumely instrument allowing the player to reach the notes of various harmonic series. Each valve pressed diverts the air stream through additional tubing, individually or in conjunction with other valves. This lengthens the vibrating air column thus lowering the fundamental tone and associated harmonic serial produced past the instrument. Designs exist, although rare, in which this behaviour is reversed, i.eastward., pressing a valve removes a length of tubing rather than adding one. Ane modern example of such an ascending valve is the Yamaha YSL-350C trombone,^[7] in which the extra valve tubing is ordinarily engaged to pitch the instrument in B ♭ , and pressing the thumb lever removes a whole pace to pitch the instrument in C. Valves require regular lubrication.

A cadre standard valve layout based on the activeness of iii valves had get almost universal by (at latest) 1864 as witnessed by Arban's method published in that year. The result of a detail combination of valves may exist seen in the table below. This table is correct for the cadre three-valve layout on about any modernistic valved brass instrument. The about common four-valve layout is a superset of the well-established three-valve layout and is noted in the table, despite the exposition of four-valve and also v-valve systems (the latter used on the tuba) being incomplete in this commodity.

Valve combination and effect on pitch

Valve combination	Effect on pitch	Interval	Tuning problems
two	i⁄2 footstep	Minor second
1	1 step	Major 2d
i+two or 3	ane+ 1⁄2 step	Minor third	Very slightly sharp
2+three	2 steps	Major tertiary	Slightly precipitous
1+iii or 4	2+ 1⁄2 steps	Perfect quaternary	Precipitous (1+three only)
1+2+three or 2+four	3 steps	Tritone	Very sharp (1+2+3 but)
1+4	iii+ one⁄2 steps	Perfect fifth
1+2+4 or 3+4	4 steps	Augmented fifth	Apartment
2+3+four	iv+ 1⁄two steps	Major sixth	Slightly sharp
1+3+four	5 steps	Minor seventh	Sharp
1+two+3+4	five+ ane⁄two steps	Major seventh	Very precipitous

Tuning [edit]

Since valves lower the pitch, a valve that makes a pitch too depression (flat) creates an interval wider than desired, while a valve that plays precipitous creates an interval narrower than desired. Intonation deficiencies of brass instruments that are independent of the tuning or temperament arrangement are inherent in the physics of the most popular valve design, which uses a small number of valves in combination to avert redundant and heavy lengths of tubing^[8] (this is entirely separate from the slight deficiencies between Western music's dominant equal (even) temperament organisation and the just (not equal) temperament of the harmonic serial itself). Since each lengthening of the tubing has an inversely proportional effect on pitch (Pitch of contumely instruments), while pitch perception is logarithmic, there is no way for a simple, uncompensated addition of length to exist correct in every combination when compared with the pitches of the open up tubing and the other valves.^[ix]

Absolute tube length [edit]

For example, given a length of tubing equaling 100 units of length when open, one may obtain the post-obit tuning discrepancies:

Valve combination and creation of pitch discrepancies

Valve(southward)	Desired pitch	Necessary valve length	Component tubing length	Difference	Slide positions
Open tubing	A ♯ /B ♭	0	–	–	1
two	A	five.9	–	–	two
ane	Chiliad ♯ /A ♭	12.2	–	–	3
1+ii or 3	Yard	xviii.nine	xviii.1	0.8	4
2+three	F ♯ /One thousand ♭	25.9	24.8	one.1	five
one+iii or 4	F	33.5	31.1	2.4	six or T
one+2+3 or 2+iv	Due east	41.iv	37	4.4	7 or T+2
1+4	D ♯ /E ♭	–	45.7	–	T+iii
one+two+4 or 3+4	D	–	52.iv	–	T+4
2+3+4	C ♯ /D ♭	–	58.iii	–	T+5
1+3+4	C	–	64.vi	–	T+6
1+2+3+four	B	–	70.five	–	T+7

Playing notes using valves (notably 1st + 3rd and 1st + 2nd + 3rd) requires bounty to adjust the tuning accordingly, either past the player'southward lip-and-breath control, via mechanical assistance of some sort, or, in the example of horns, by the position of the stopping hand in the bell. 'T' stands for trigger on a trombone.

Relative tube length [edit]

Traditionally^[10] the valves lower the pitch of the instrument by adding extra lengths of tubing based on a just tuning:

• 1st valve: 1⁄8 of principal tube, making an interval of ix:8, a pythagorean major 2nd
• 2nd valve: 1⁄fifteen of chief tube, making an interval of 16:15, a just pocket-size second
• 3rd valve: 1⁄5 of chief tube, making an interval of 6:v, a just small third

Combining the valves and the harmonics of the instrument leads to the post-obit ratios and comparisons to 12-tone equal tuning and to a common v-limit tuning in C:

Valves	Har- monic	Note	Ratio	Cents	Cents from 12ET	But tuning	Cents from just
○○○	two	C	1:one	0	0	1:i	0
●●●	3	C ♯ /D ♭	180:167	130	thirty	16:xv	18
●○●	three	D	60:53	215	15	ix:8	11
○●●	three	D ♯ /E ♭	45:38	293	−vii	half dozen:5	−23
●●○	3	E	180:143	398	−2	5:iv	12
●○○	3	F	four:3	498	−2	4:3	0
○●○	3	F ♯ /G ♭	45:32	590	−10	45:32	0
○○○	3	G	3:2	702	two	3:2	0
○●●	4	G ♯ /A ♭	30:xix	791	−ix	8:5	−23
●●○	4	A	240:143	896	−iv	5:3	12
●○○	iv	A ♯ /B ♭	16:nine	996	−4	nine:5	−22
○●○	four	B	xv:8	1088	−12	15:8	0
○○○	4	C	2:1	1200	0	2:1	0
●●○	5	C ♯ /D ♭	300:143	1283	−17	32:15	−29
●○○	5	D	20:9	1382	−18	9:4	−22
○●○	5	D ♯ /East ♭	75:32	1475	−25	12:5	−41
○○○	5	East	v:two	1586	−14	5:2	0

Tuning compensation [edit]

The additional tubing for each valve usually features a brusk tuning slide of its own for fine adjustment of the valve's tuning, except when it is too short to brand this practicable. For the first and third valves this is oftentimes designed to be adjusted as the instrument is played, to account for the deficiencies in the valve system.

Trumpet valve bypass (depressed)

In most trumpets and cornets, the compensation must be provided by extending the tertiary valve slide with the tertiary or fourth finger, and the first valve slide with the left hand thumb (see Trigger or throw below). This is used to lower the pitch of the 1–3 and 1–two–3 valve combinations. On the trumpet and cornet, these valve combinations correspond to low D, low C ♯ , low G, and low F ♯ , so chromatically, to stay in tune, one must use this method.

In instruments with a 4th valve, such every bit tubas, euphoniums, piccolo trumpets, etc. that valve lowers the pitch by a perfect fourth; this is used to compensate for the sharpness of the valve combinations 1–3 and 1–2–three (iv replaces ane–three, ii–four replaces 1–two–3). All three normal valves may be used in addition to the quaternary to increase the instrument's range down past a perfect fourth, although with increasingly severe intonation problems.

When 4-valved models without any kind of compensation play in the corresponding register, the sharpness becomes so astringent that players must finger the note a half-stride below the one they are trying to play. This eliminates the annotation a one-half-pace in a higher place their open up cardinal.

Manufacturers of low brass instruments may cull one or a combination of four basic approaches to compensate for the tuning difficulties, whose respective merits are discipline to debate:

Compensation system [edit]

In the Compensation system, each of the first two (or three) valves has an boosted set of tubing extending from the dorsum of the valve. When the third (or 4th) valve is depressed in combination with another one, the air is routed through both the usual set of tubing plus the extra one, and so that the pitch is lowered by an appropriate amount. This allows compensating instruments to play with accurate intonation in the octave below their open second fractional, which is critical for tubas and euphoniums in much of their repertoire.

The compensating arrangement was applied to horns to serve a unlike purpose. It was used to allow a double horn in F and B ♭ to ease playing difficulties in the high register. In contrast to the system in utilize in tubas and euphoniums, the default 'side' of the horn is the longer F horn, with secondary lengths of tubing coming into play when the beginning, second or 3rd valves are pressed; pressing the thumb valve takes these secondary valve slides and the extra length of main tubing out of play to produce a shorter B ♭ horn. A after "full double" design has completely separate valve section tubing for the two sides, and is considered superior, although rather heavier in weight.

Additional valves [edit]

Initially, compensated instruments tended to sound stuffy and blow less freely due to the air beingness doubled back through the main valves. In early on designs, this led to abrupt bends in the tubing and other obstructions of the air-period. Some manufacturers therefore preferred adding more than 'straight' valves instead, which for case could be pitched a piffling lower than the 2nd and 1st valves and were intended to exist used instead of these in the respective valve combinations. While no longer featured in euphoniums for decades, many professional tubas are still built similar this, with five valves being mutual on CC- and BB ♭ -tubas and v or 6 valves on F-tubas.^{[ citation needed ]}

Compensating double horns can too suffer from the stuffiness resulting from the air being passed through the valve department twice, but every bit this actually only affects the longer F side, a compensating double tin can be very useful for a 1st or 3rd horn histrion, who uses the F side less.

Additional sets of slides on each valve [edit]

Another approach was the add-on of ii sets of slides for different parts of the range. Some euphoniums and tubas were congenital like this, but today, this approach has become highly exotic for all instruments except horns, where information technology is the norm, commonly in a double, sometimes even triple configuration.

Trigger or throw [edit]

Flugelhorn with three pistons and a trigger

Some valved brass instruments provide triggers or throws that manually lengthen (or, less commonly, shorten) the chief tuning slide, a valve slide, or the principal tubing. These mechanisms change the pitch of notes that are naturally sharp in a specific register of the instrument, or shift the instrument to another playing range. Triggers and throws permit speedy aligning while playing.

Trigger is used in two senses:

• A trigger can be a mechanical lever that lengthens a slide when pressed in a opposite direction. Triggers are sprung in such a manner that they return the slide to its original position when released.
• The term "trigger" also describes a device engaging a valve to lengthen the master tubing, due east.thousand. lowering the key of certain trombones from B ♭ to F.

A throw is a simple metal grip for the actor's finger or thumb, fastened to a valve slide. The general term "throw" can describe a u-claw, a saddle (u-shaped grips), or a ring (band-shape grip) in which a player'south finger or pollex rests. A player extends a finger or thumb to lengthen a slide, and retracts the finger to return the slide to its original position.

Examples of instruments that use triggers or throws [edit]

Trumpet or cornet [edit]

Triggers or throws are sometimes institute on the kickoff valve slide. They are operated past the player's thumb and are used to adapt a large range of notes using the first valve, most notably the thespian'due south written top line F, the A to a higher place directly higher up that, and the B ♭ to a higher place that. Other notes that require the get-go valve slide, but are non equally problematic without it include the commencement line E, the F above that, the A above that, and the 3rd line B ♭ .

Triggers or throws are often found on the tertiary valve slide. They are operated past the player'south fourth finger, and are used to conform the lower D and C ♯ . Trumpets typically utilize throws, whilst cornets may have a throw or trigger.

Trombone [edit]

Trombone triggers are primarily but not exclusively^[7] installed on the F-trigger, bass, and contrabass trombones^[eleven] to alter the length of tubing, thus making sure ranges and pitches more accessible.

Euphoniums [edit]

A euphonium occasionally has a trigger on valves other than 2 (especially 3), although many professional quality euphoniums, and indeed other brass band instruments, have a trigger for the chief tuning slide.^[12]

Mechanism [edit]

The ii major types of valve mechanisms are rotary valves and piston valves. The first piston valve instruments were developed just afterward the start of the 19th century. The Stölzel valve (invented by Heinrich Stölzel in 1814) was an early variety. In the mid 19th century the Vienna valve was an improved blueprint. Nevertheless many professional musicians preferred rotary valves for quicker, more than reliable activity, until better designs of piston valves were mass manufactured towards the end of the 19th century. Since the early decades of the 20th century, piston valves have been the most common on contumely instruments except for the orchestral horn and the tuba.^[xiii] Run across also the commodity Brass Instrument Valves.

Sound production in contumely instruments [edit]

Because the actor of a contumely instrument has directly command of the prime number vibrator (the lips), brass instruments exploit the actor'due south ability to select the harmonic at which the instrument'southward column of air vibrates. By making the instrument nearly twice as long equally the equivalent woodwind instrument and starting with the 2nd harmonic, players can get a expert range of notes only past varying the tension of their lips (meet embouchure).

Nearly brass instruments are fitted with a removable mouthpiece. Different shapes, sizes and styles of mouthpiece may be used to adapt different embouchures, or to more than easily produce certain tonal characteristics. Trumpets, trombones, and tubas are characteristically fitted with a cupped mouthpiece, while horns are fitted with a conical mouthpiece.

One interesting deviation betwixt a woodwind instrument and a brass instrument is that woodwind instruments are non-directional. This ways that the sound produced propagates in all directions with approximately equal volume. Brass instruments, on the other hand, are highly directional, with most of the sound produced traveling straight outward from the bong. This divergence makes it significantly more than hard to record a brass instrument accurately. It besides plays a major part in some performance situations, such as in marching bands.

Industry [edit]

Metal [edit]

Traditionally the instruments are usually made of brass, polished and then lacquered to forbid corrosion. Some higher quality and college toll instruments use gold or silver plating to foreclose corrosion.

Alternatives to brass include other alloys containing meaning amounts of copper or silver. These alloys are biostatic due to the oligodynamic effect, and thus suppress growth of molds, fungi or bacteria. Brass instruments constructed from stainless steel or aluminium have practiced audio quality but are speedily colonized past microorganisms and become unpleasant to play.

Virtually higher quality instruments are designed to prevent or reduce galvanic corrosion between any steel in the valves and springs, and the brass of the tubing. This may take the form of desiccant design, to proceed the valves dry, sacrificial zincs, replaceable valve cores and springs, plastic insulating washers, or nonconductive or noble materials for the valve cores and springs. Some instruments use several such features.^{[ not specific enough to verify ]}

The process of making the big open end (bong) of a brass instrument is chosen metal beating. In making the bell of, for example, a trumpet, a person lays out a pattern and shapes sheet metal into a bell-shape using templates, motorcar tools, handtools, and blueprints. The maker cuts out the bong bare, using hand or ability shears. He hammers the bare over a bong-shaped mandrel, and butts the seam, using a notching tool. The seam is brazed, using a torch and smoothed using a hammer or file. A draw demote or arbor press equipped with expandable atomic number 82 plug is used to shape and smooth the bell and bell cervix over a mandrel. A lathe is used to spin the bell head and to form a dewdrop at the edge of bell caput. Previously shaped bell necks are annealed, using a mitt torch to soften the metal for further bending. Scratches are removed from the bell using abrasive-coated textile.

Other materials [edit]

Quartet with plastic trombones

A few specialty instruments are made from wood.

Instruments made mostly from plastic emerged in the 2010s as a cheaper and more robust alternative to contumely.^{[14] [15]} Plastic instruments could come in almost any color. The sound plastic instruments produce is dissimilar from the one of brass, lacquer, gold or silverish.^{[ commendation needed ]} While originally seen as a gimmick, these plastic models have found increasing popularity during the last decade and are now viewed as practice tools that make for more user-friendly travel besides as a cheaper option for beginning players.

Ensembles [edit]

Brass instruments are 1 of the major classical musical instrument families and are played across a range of musical ensembles.

Orchestras include a varying number of contumely instruments depending on music mode and era, typically:

• ii to three trumpets
• two to 4 French horns
• 2 tenor trombones
• one bass trombone
• one tuba
  • Baroque and classical period orchestras may include valveless trumpets or bugles, or take valved trumpets/cornets playing these parts, and they may include valveless horns, or have valved horns playing these parts.
  • Romantic, modernistic, and contemporary orchestras may include larger numbers of brass including more exotic instruments.

Concert bands generally have a larger brass department than an orchestra, typically:

• four to vi trumpets or cornets
• four French horns
• 2 to 4 tenor trombones
• 1 to two bass trombones
• two to 3 euphoniums or baritone horns
• 2 to 3 tubas

British brass bands are made up entirely of brass, generally conical diameter instruments. Typical membership is:

• i soprano cornet
• nine cornets
• one flugelhorn
• three tenor (alto) horns
• two baritone horns
• two tenor trombones
• one bass trombone
• 2 euphoniums
• two Eastward ♭ tubas
• ii B ♭ tubas

Quintets are common small brass ensembles; a quintet typically contains:

• two trumpets
• 1 horn
• i trombone
• one tuba or bass trombone

Big bands and other jazz bands unremarkably contain cylindrical bore brass instruments.

• A big band typically includes:
  • four trumpets
  • four tenor trombones
  • one bass trombone (in place of ane of the tenor trombones)
• Smaller jazz ensembles may include a unmarried trumpet or trombone soloist.

Mexican bandas have:

• three trumpets
• 3 trombones
• two alto horns, as well called "charchetas" and "saxores"
• one sousaphone, called "tuba"

Single brass instruments are besides often used to accompany other instruments or ensembles such every bit an organ or a choir.

Meet likewise [edit]

• Air current instruments
• Drum and bugle corps (modern)
• Pitch of brass instruments
• Horn section
• Brass instrument valve

References [edit]

1. ^ Baines, Anthony (1993). Brass instruments: their history and evolution. Dover Publications. p. 300. ISBN0-486-27574-four.
2. ^ "Producing a harmonic sequence of notes with a trumpet". hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.
3. ^ "The Pedal Tone". hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.
4. ^ "Brass musical instrument (lip reed) acoustics: an introduction; Resonances and pedal notes". newt.phys.unsw.edu.au.
5. ^ Schlesinger, Kathleen (1911). "Bombardon". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 182.
6. ^ Orchestration, Forsyth, Cecil; MacMillan Books, 1922.
7. ^ ^{a b} Yamaha Catalog YSL-350C Archived 2009-04-28 at Annal-Information technology with ascending B ♭ /C rotor
8. ^ Understanding Brass Instrument Intonation, University of Oklahoma Horn Studio
9. ^ "Brass instrument (lip reed) acoustics: an introduction". www.phys.unsw.edu.au. Archived from the original on 2014-08-14. Retrieved 2017-12-ten .
10. ^ Christopher W. Monk, "The Older Brass Instruments: Cornet, Trombone, Trumpet", in Musical Instruments Through the Ages, revised edition, edited by Anthony Baines,^{[ page needed ]} (London: Faber and Faber, 1966):^{[ page needed ]}
11. ^ "Yamaha Itemize "Professional Trombones"". yamaha.com. Archived from the original on 2009-09-01. Retrieved 2009-10-25 .
12. ^ The Besson Prestige euphonium.
13. ^ The Early Valved Horn by John Q. Ericson, Acquaintance Professor of horn at Arizona State University
14. ^ Flynn, Mike (20 June 2013). "pBone plastic trombone". Jazzwise Magazine . Retrieved 16 October 2016.
15. ^ "Korg UK takes on distribution of Tromba". Musical instrument Professional person. ii May 2013. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2013.

External links [edit]

• Contumely Instruments Information on individual Brass Instruments
• The traditional manufacture of contumely instruments, a 1991 video (RealPlayer format) featuring maker Robert Barclay; from the web site of the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
• The Orchestra: A User'due south Manual – Brass
• Brassmusic.Ru – Russian Brass Community
• Acoustics of Brass Instruments from Music Acoustics at the University of New South Wales
• Early on Valve designs, John Ericson
• three-Valve and 4-Valve Compensating Systems, David Werden

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