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Brass Family

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Musical Instruments

I can correctly identify instruments by sight and sound

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4 categories

Can you name them?

String

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Woodwind

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Brass

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Percussion

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String Family Members

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Members

  • Violin
  • Cello
  • String Bass/Upright
  • Harp
  • Viola

What is common?

Woodwinds

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Members

  • Flute
  • Clarinet
  • Oboe
  • Bassoon
  • Saxophone

What is common?

Brass

Common Traits
-Buzzed into
-All made of brass
-smaller the instrument= lower the sound

Members

  • Trumpet
  • Trombone
  • French Horn
  • Tuba

Trumpet

Trumpet Facts

  • Buzz into a mouthpiece
  • Has 3 keys/valves to control sound
  • Sound travels through horn to bell
  • hollow tubing that stretches to 6.5 feet
  • Highest of all the brass

Trombone

Trombone Facts

  • Buzz into a mouthpiece
  • Has NO valves, uses a slide
  • Hollow tubing, 9 feet stretched
  • Really mellow sound

French Horn

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French Horn Facts

  • Press valves on side
  • 12 feet of tubing in a circle
  • Loud instrument
  • Right hand goes inside bell
  • Buzz into mouthpiece

Tuba

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Tuba Facts

  • Lowest of the brass family
  • Has 4 or 5 valves to control sound
  • 16 feet of tubing, curled
  • Buzz into giant mouthpiece

Discuss

  • Trumpet
  • Trombone
  • French Horn
  • Tuba

Canadian Brass

Flight of the bumblebee

Greg Ah Sue

Fanfare and Scherzo
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Tuba Quartet

  • Melton Tuba Quartet
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