Strings Woodwind

Brass Percussion

How?

• Buzz into a mouthpiece

The Trumpet

Mouthpiece Valves

Bell

The French Horn

Valves

Mouth Piece

Right hand in BELL

The Trombone

Slide

Mouth PieceAs you can see this instrument has a slide instead of valves.

The Trombone

The Tuba

The tuba is the largest of all the Brass instruments.

Muted

• A device used to change the sound and volume.

PlaceMuteInBell ofinstrument

Muted• A well known muted

sound you may have heard is at the beginning of Paulo Nutini’s ‘Pencil full of lead’.

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

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