A trumpet is a musical instrument. It is the highest register in the brass family.

Trumpets are among the oldest

musical instruments,
[1]
dating back to at least 1500 BC. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing
a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th
century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded oblong shape.

The saxophone
[2]
(also referred to as the sax) is a conical-bore woodwind musical instrument. Saxophones are
usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet.
[2]
The saxophone was
invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in he saxophone has proved very popular in military
band music, and is commonly used in jazz and classical music. There is substantial repertoire of concert music in the
classical idiom for the members of the saxophone family. Saxophone players are called saxophonists.
[2]







The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into
a large cupped mouthpiece. It first appeared in the mid 19th-century, making it one of the newest instruments in the
modern orchestra and concert band. The tuba largely replaced the ophicleide.
[1]
Tuba is Latin for trumpet or
horn.
[2]
The horn referred to would most likely resemble what is known as a baroque trumpet.
A person who plays the tuba is known as a tubaist or tubist.
[3]
In the United Kingdom a person who plays the tuba in
an orchestra is known simply as a tuba player; in a brass band or military band they are known as a bass player.
Oboe



The horn, also known as the corno and French horn,
[2]
is a brass instrument made of more than 20 feet (6.1 m)
[3]
of
tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The main bugle on an F Horn is ~1213'
[4]
and the tubing associated with
the valves make up the additional tubing to achieve ~20' of tubing overall. A musician who plays the horn is called
a horn player (or less frequently, a hornist). In informal use, "horn" may also refer to nearly any wind instrument with a
flared exit for the sound.
[5]

Descended from the natural horn, the instrument is often informally known as the French horn. However, this is
technically incorrect since the instrument is not French in origin, but German. Therefore, the International Horn
Society has recommended since 1971 that the instrument be simply called the horn.
[6][7]
French horn is still the most
commonly used name for the instrument in the United States.
Pitch is controlled through the adjustment of lip tension in the mouthpiece and the operation of valves by the left
hand, which route the air into extra tubing.
[8]
Most horns have lever-operated rotary valves, but some, especially older
horns, use piston valves (similar to a trumpet's) and theVienna horn uses double-piston valves, or pumpenvalves.


The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the
players vibrating lips (embouchure) cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate. Nearly all trombones have
a telescoping slide mechanism that varies the length of the instrument to change the pitch. Special variants like
the valve trombone and superbone have three valves like those on the trumpet.





Brass is an alloy made of copper and zinc; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of
brasses with varying properties.
[1]

By comparison, bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin.
[2]
Bronze does not necessarily contain tin, and a
variety of alloys of copper, including alloys with arsenic, phosphorus, aluminium, manganese, and silicon, are
commonly termed "bronze". The term is applied to a variety of brasses and the distinction is largely historical,
[3]
both
terms having a common antecedent in the term latten.
Brass is a substitutional alloy. It is used for decoration for its bright gold-like appearance; for applications where
low friction is required such as locks, gears, bearings, doorknobs, ammunition casings and valves; for plumbing and
electrical applications; and extensively in brass musical instrumentssuch as horns and bells for its acoustic
properties. It is also used in zippers. Brass is often used in situations where it is important that sparks not be struck,
as in fittings and tools around explosive gases.
[4]

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a
tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Brass instruments are also called labrosones,
literally meaning "lip-vibrated instruments".
[1]

The xylophone (from the Greek words xylon, "wood"
[1]
+ phon, "sound, voice",
[2]
meaning "wooden
sound") is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Each bar is
an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and
Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, orchromatic for orchestral use.



Timpani, or kettledrums, are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a skin
called a headstretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper. They are played by striking the head with a
specialized drum stick called atimpani stick or timpani mallet. Timpani evolved from military drums to become a staple
of the classical orchestra by the last third of the 18th century. Today, they are used in many types of musical
ensembles including concert, marching, and even some rock bands. The timpani is an instrument most famously
played by Charlie Winnicott.


Cymbals are a common percussion instrument. Cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various alloys;
see cymbal making for a discussion of their manufacture. The majority of cymbals are of indefinite pitch, although
small disc-shaped cymbals based on ancient designs sound a definite note (see: crotales). Cymbals are used in
many ensembles ranging from the orchestra, percussion ensembles, jazz bands, heavy metal bands, and marching
groups. Drum kits usually incorporate at least a crash, ride or crash/ride, and a pair of hi-hat cymbals.





The snare drum or side drum is a widely used unpitched percussion instrument. It is often used
in orchestras, marching bands and concert bands, drum corps and many other applications.
It is the center of the drum kit, the most prominent drum in most marching and stage bands, and the instrument that
students of both orchestral and kit drumming learn to play first.
The snare drum is almost always double-headed, with rattles (called snares) of gut, metal wire or synthetics
stretched across one or both heads. There are three main types where:




A bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.
Bass drums are percussion instruments and vary in size and are used in several musical genres. Three major types
of bass drums can be distinguished















An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind,
and percussion instruments. The term orchestraderives from the Greek , the name for the area in front of
an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus.
[1]
The orchestra grew by accretion throughout the 18th and
19th centuries, but changed very little in composition during the course of the 20th century. A smaller-sized orchestra
for this time period (of about fifty musicians or fewer) is called a chamber orchestra. A full-size orchestra (about 100
musicians) may sometimes be called a "symphony orchestra" or "philharmonic orchestra"; these modifiers do not
necessarily indicate any strict difference in either the instrumental constitution or role of the orchestra, but can be
useful to distinguish different ensembles based in the same city (for instance, the London















The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is
an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening. According to the
instrument classification ofHornbostelSachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones.



The clarinet is a type of woodwind instrument that has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight cylindrical tube with an
approximately cylindrical bore, and a flaring bell. A person who plays the clarinet is called a clarinetist or clarinettist.


Bassoon










he piccolo
[1]
(Italian for small, but named ottavino in Italy)
[2]
is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of
musical instruments.