So your child wants to be in the band? Or maybe you’re just a regular person who wants to pick up a new hobby? Well, either way hopefully this advice will be of some help to you. First of all let me start by saying I have played Brass instruments in middle, high school and [...]
For many years I have been very interested in one special musical instrument: the French horn. If you have never heard a French horn, well this intriguing brass instrument with a mellow tone. There are not small instrument. A normal French horn will be 12 feet of tubing and it is part of the bass [...]
When looking at a sackbut, the first thing that someone will probably think is that it appears to closely resemble the trombone. The sackbut is, in fact, the ancestor of the trombone and was often used in music during the Baroque and Renaissance periods. It is a member of the brass family, which is obvious [...]
The cornett should not be confused with the cornet. This is a different kind of wind instrument that is spelled with an extra “t” and is known not only as the cornett, but also as the cornetto or the zink. It is a brass instrument that has been around for quite a while; as far [...]
When referring to the instrument, the serpent is a wind instrument that resembles a snake in its design. It can be hard to classify this particular instrument at first because it could be a brass instrument for its mouthpiece, but it could be a woodwind instrument because of the material it is made out of [...]
The sousaphone is basically a tuba, with the biggest difference being that the instrument will fit around the body of the musician. This makes it easier for someone in a marching band to carry the instrument and focus more on playing it rather than how to hold and balance it properly for a longer period [...]
The bugle is a small brass instrument that is basically a natural horn, because it has no valves or keys. One might wonder how the pitch is altered without any keys or valves; the pitch can be altered by controlling the air that the musician is blowing into the horn through closed lips. Blowing through [...]
The cornet is an instrument that is a member of the brass instrument family. Its appearance is close to that of the trumpet in its design. The tubing is wrapped in a clever way that will allow the musician to easily carry and play the instrument, and the tube’s diameter increases in size until the [...]
