Brass Instruments

By: Marta Sanz Redondo

BRASS INSTRUMENTS

What are the brass instruments mouthpiece like?

How do you play it?

How work the piston valves?

How brass instruments can create a lot of differents notes?

What they are made of?

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Brass instruments are made of different metal alloys and they add powerful sounds to compositions.

What they are made of?

How do you play it?

The trumpet has three piston valves the first played a whole tone, the second raises it a semitone and the thereed raises a tone and a half

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The keys or piston valves make the notes that do not sound by air pressure alone

They do not have holes like woodwind instruments. They can create a lot of notes by changing the pressure of the air blown

These instruments are played by blowing into them.

Brass instrumets mouthpieces do not go in your mouth; you press your lips against them and blow.

WHAT ARE THE BRASS INSTRUMENTS MOUTHPIES LIKE?

Here you can see the piston valves

They do not have holes like woodwind instruments

Brass instruments have 3 piston valves

You blow into them like in the photo