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Brass instruments, one of the common sections in an orchestra, 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. Common brasses are trombones, trumpets, French horns and tubas. However, some brass instruments are not always made of brass. Although the trombone and French horn are typically made of brass, the cornet is an example that is made of wood. You can also find woodwind instruments that are made of brass such as the saxophone.
Players produce sound from brass instruments like the trombone or French horn by vibrating their lips against the cupped mouthpiece. By adjusting the tension of their lips they can produce a range of notes using the harmonics of the instruments. Further note ranges can be achieved by adjusting the length of the instrument, which depending on the instrument family is achieved in differing ways.
There is considered to be three families of brass instruments - natural, slide and valve. A natural is an instrument where notes can be played only in the instruments harmonic series, for example the bugle. In other words the length of the instrument cannot change. A slide instrument, such as the trombone, uses a slide to change the length of the instrument and thus produce different notes. Valve instruments like the French horn have valves that introduce additional tubing into the instrument and are operated by the player’s fingers. A forth type, keyed or fingered, used to be common but were mostly made obsolete with the introduction of the valve. These instruments used holes along the body, similar to woodwinds.
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