Instruments, classification...

2. Strings Woodwind
Brass Percussion

3. How?
• Buzz into a mouthpiece

4. The Trumpet
Mouthpiece Valves
Bell

6. The French Horn
Valves
Mouth Piece

7. Right hand in BELL

8. The Trombone
Slide
Mouth Piece
As you can see this instrument
has a slide instead of valves.

9. The Trombone

10. The Tuba
The tuba is the largest of
all the Brass instruments.

11. Muted
• A device used to change the sound and volume.
Place
Mute
In
Bell of
instrument

12. Muted
• A well known muted
sound you may have
heard is at the
beginning of Paulo
Nutini’s ‘Pencil full of
lead’.

13. 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

15. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=FjMWOzeuRiw