French Horn
The french horn is made of brass. If you stretched out the tubes into one long tube, it would be about 4 meters long! The french horn only has three keys to be pressed. The mouthpiece is very small, but the french horn has a very wide range of notes. It can go from playing very low notes to very high!
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Trumpet
The trumpet is made of brass. It like the french horn has three keys or 'valves' which are pressed to make different notes! There is also a 'piccolo trumpet' which is about half the size of a trumpet, but it can play very high notes. This is similar to the flute and the piccolo!
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Trombone
The trombone is similar to the trumpet. But it is much longer, and uses a slide to change notes. The trombone makes a very big and 'broad' sound. There is a handle which you may notice near the mouthpiece. This moves the slide back and forth to play different notes. There are no buttons on the trombone! |
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Euphonium
The Euphonium is pitched in the key of B♭. It's made of brass and has three visible valves like the trumpet. You may notice though that there is a fourth valve. Can you see it? It's on the side of the euphonium!
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TUBA
The Tuba is the largest brass instrument. It looks like a euphonium but bigger. The tuba can play the lowest notes out of all the brass instruments! It only has 3 valves unlike the euphonium which has four. |
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