Brass Instruments

BRASS INSTRUMENTS

By: Marta Sanz Redondo

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What they are made of?

How do you play it?

How brass instruments can create a lot of differents notes?

How work the piston valves?

What are the brass instruments mouthpiece like?

What they are made of?

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

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

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

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

These instruments are played by blowing into them.

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WHAT ARE THE BRASS INSTRUMENTS MOUTHPIES LIKE?

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

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