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Total 92 word senses

• French horn (Noun) [English] A coiled brass musical instrument, derived from the French hunting horn, which has rotary valves.
• Kent bugle (Noun) [English] A curved bugle with six stops.
• Trompete (Noun) [German] trumpet
• Tuba (Noun) [German] tuba
• Vienna horn (Noun) [English] A brass aerophone used mainly in Austria in the performance of orchestral and classical music.
• Wagner tuba (Noun) [English] A brass instrument that combines tonal elements of the French horn and the trombone.
• Waldhorn (Noun) [German] hunting horn
• Zugtrompete (Noun) [German] slide trumpet
• althorn (Noun) [English] An alto or tenor saxhorn
• baritone horn (Noun) [English] A brass instrument in the baritone range that is similar to a euphonium.
• baryton (Noun) [Polish] baritone (instrument within the baritone range)
• bass horn (Noun) [English] A large brass instrument in the bass range, usually referring to the modern tuba or the archaic serpent
• bass trombone (Noun) [English] A trombone with the same fundamental pitch as the tenor, typically has two valves, a wider bore, and larger bell. These help to produce a fuller, weightier, sound, and help play better in the lower register.
• bazooka (Noun) [English] A shoulder-held rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon, developed by America during World War II and so-called from its resemblance to the bazooka musical instrument.
• blacha (Noun) [Polish] brass instruments
• bombardon (Noun) [English] A brass instrument, the bass version of the tuba.
• bombardon (Noun) [French] bombardon, certain bass instruments, notably a tuba
• buccina (Noun) [English] A curved brass instrument used by the Ancient Roman army.
• bugle (Noun) [English] A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
• bugle (Noun) [French] bugle
• bugle (Noun) [French] flugelhorn
• bugle (Noun) [French] bugle, bugleweed
• carnyx (Noun) [English] A bronze wind instrument used by Iron Age Celts (c. 200 B.C.E. – 200 C.E.) as a type of battle trumpet; held vertically when played, it was shaped like an elongated S with a mouthpiece at the lower end and a bell (often resembling an animal with an open mouth) at the upper end.
• cimbasso (Noun) [English] A cylindrical valved instrument in the low brass family, closely related to the trombone and normally pitched a fifth or an octave below the tenor and bass trombones.
• clarino (Noun) [Italian] straight trumpet; a kind of natural trumpet
• clarion (Noun) [English] A medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound.
• cor d'harmonie (Noun) [French] French horn
• cornet (Noun) [English] A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
• cornet (Noun) [French] post horn
• cornet à pistons (Noun) [French] cornet (musical instrument of the brass family)
• corno (Noun) [English] French horn
• eufônio (Noun) [Portuguese] euphonium
• euph (Noun) [English] Euphonium.
• euphonium (Noun) [English] A valved brass instrument with conical tubing similar in appearance to a tuba but of higher pitch.
• flugelhorn (Noun) [English] A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same B-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. A bugle with valves.
• grunt-horn (Noun) [English] A tuba.
• hatzotzrah (Noun) [English] An instrument similar to a trumpet used by the ancient Israelites.
• helicon (Noun) [English] A large tuba whose coils fit around the player's shoulders.
• hélicon (Noun) [French] helicon
• instrument dęty blaszany (Noun) [Polish] brass instrument
• kabutse (Noun) [Tagalog] sackbut
• kerana (Noun) [English] A long Persian trumpet.
• luik (Noun) [Estonian] swan
• natural trumpet (Noun) [English] A valveless brass instrument that is able to play the notes of the harmonic series.
• onbeia (Noun) [English] An elephant's tusk trumpet.
• ophicleide (Noun) [English] A keyed brass baritone bugle, now replaced by the tuba in orchestral music
• organ (Noun) [Polish] organ, pipe organ (largest of all musical instruments, played from an organ console which produces its sound by sending air through whistles and/or reeds called organ pipes, by direct mechanical action)
• post horn (Noun) [English] A valveless musical instrument based on such a horn, used in orchestral music.
• puzon (Noun) [Polish] trombone (musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both); most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭))
• quinticlave (Noun) [English] An alto ophicleide.
• róg (Noun) [Polish] horn, French horn (coiled brass musical instrument, derived from the French hunting horn, which has rotary valves)
• saxhorn (Noun) [English] Any of a group of similar brass instruments, resembling a bugle in shape, but with valves
• slide trombone (Noun) [English] A trombone equipped with a slide.
• slide trumpet (Noun) [English] A trumpet fitted with a slide (an early form of a slide trombone)
• sonorophone (Noun) [English] A kind of bombardon.
• soubassophone (Noun) [French] sousaphone
• sousaphone (Noun) [English] A valved brass instrument with the same length as a tuba, but shaped differently so that the bell is above the head, that the valves are situated directly in front of the musical instruments and a few inches above the waist, and that most of the weight rests on one shoulder.
• sudrophone (Noun) [English] A brass instrument with a cylindrical bore and four valves.
• tenor trombone (Noun) [English] The Most common type of trombone which has a fundamental note of B♭ and is usually treated as a non-transposing instrument.
• trombon (Noun) [Swedish] a trombone
• trombone (Noun) [English] A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
• trombone (Noun) [Portuguese] trombone (a musical instrument in the brass family)
• tromboon (Noun) [English] A trombone with the reed and bocal of a bassoon placed instead of the usual mouthpiece, which combines the limitations of both instruments, producing a loud comical sound.
• trombôn (Noun) [Welsh] trombone
• trompeta (Noun) [Catalan] bigmouth, blabbermouth
• trompeta (Noun) [Catalan] horn of plenty (Craterellus cornucopioides)
• trompeta (Noun) [Catalan] angel's trumpet (Brugmansia arborea)
• trompete (Noun) [Portuguese] trumpet (brass instrument)
• trompette (Noun) [French] trumpet
• trompéta (Noun) [Kashubian] trumpet (musical instrument)
• trumpet (Noun) [English] A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.
• trumpet (Noun) [Middle English] A trumpet; a small brass instrument.
• trumpet marine (Noun) [English] Synonym of tromba marina
• trumpeta (Noun) [Tagalog] trumpet
• trąba (Noun) [Polish] tornado, twister (violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground)
• trąbka (Noun) [Polish] trumpet (musical instrument)
• tuba (Noun) [English] A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
• tuba (Noun) [French] snorkel
• tuba (Noun) [Polish] tuba (large brass musical instrument)
• tuba (Noun) [Portuguese] tuba (a large brass musical instrument)
• tõri (Noun) [Estonian] ocrea
• vuvuzela (Noun) [English] A trumpet-shaped horn, now usually plastic, that produces a loud buzzing sound.
• vuvuzela (Noun) [French] vuvuzela
• waltornia (Noun) [Polish] horn, French horn (coiled brass musical instrument, derived from the French hunting horn, which has rotary valves)
• wuwuzela (Noun) [Polish] vuvuzela
• xofar (Noun) [Catalan] shofar (ram's horn trumpet used in Jewish rituals)
• վալտորն (Noun) [Armenian] French horn
• тромбон (Noun) [Ukrainian] trombone
• 부부젤라 (Noun) [Korean] vuvuzela
• חצוצרה (Noun) [Hebrew] trumpet
• חצוצרה (Noun) [Hebrew] bugle
• ត្រែ (Noun) [Khmer] trumpet, bugle

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