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TUBA |
Lowest brass wind instrument |
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CORNET-A-PISTON |
A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet,
furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a
cornopean; a cornet. |
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SAXOPHONE |
A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and
partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a
clarinet. |
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SACKBUT |
A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived
that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required;
-- said to be the same as the trombone. |
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HORN |
A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn
(of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought
instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape. |
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OPHICLEIDE |
A large brass wind instrument, formerly used in the
orchestra and in military bands, having a loud tone, deep pitch, and a
compass of three oct... |
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BOMBARDON |
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bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name
bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the
saxhorns, i... |
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SERAPHINE |
A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds,
consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a
plate. It has a case,... |
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TROMBONE |
A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought
by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts,
bent twice upo... |