Chap:11Brass Instruments

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Chap11Brass Instruments
Trumpet
French Horn
Trombone
Tuba
Flugelhorn
Sousaphone
Euphonium

Cornet
http//datadragon.com/education/instruments/brass.
shtml
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Brass Instruments
http//hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/music/b
rass.htmlc1
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History

• http//earlymusichicago.org/instruments_brass.htm

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Piston and Rotary Valves
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Ranges of Selected Brass Instruments
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rchins.htmlc1
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Sound Production in Brass Instruments
Woodwinds have a wide variety of acoustical
properties and sounds the brass instruments, on
the other hand, have similar tones and tone
production mechanism. The only modern brass
instrument that has somewhat unusual acoustics is
the French horn. Simplest Brass Instrument
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Simple Experimental Trumpet
http//www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/brassacoustics.html
harmonics
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Mute
http//hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/music/f
lutew.htmlc1