English word senses marked with topical category "Brass instruments"

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Total 43 word senses

• French horn (Noun) A coiled brass musical instrument, derived from the French hunting horn, which has rotary valves.
• Kent bugle (Noun) A curved bugle with six stops.
• Vienna horn (Noun) A brass aerophone used mainly in Austria in the performance of orchestral and classical music.
• Wagner tuba (Noun) A brass instrument that combines tonal elements of the French horn and the trombone.
• althorn (Noun) An alto or tenor saxhorn
• baritone horn (Noun) A brass instrument in the baritone range that is similar to a euphonium.
• bass horn (Noun) A large brass instrument in the bass range, usually referring to the modern tuba or the archaic serpent
• bass trombone (Noun) 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) 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.
• bombardon (Noun) A brass instrument, the bass version of the tuba.
• buccina (Noun) A curved brass instrument used by the Ancient Roman army.
• bugle (Noun) A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
• carnyx (Noun) 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) 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.
• clarion (Noun) 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.
• cornet (Noun) A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
• corno (Noun) French horn
• euph (Noun) Euphonium.
• euphonium (Noun) A valved brass instrument with conical tubing similar in appearance to a tuba but of higher pitch.
• flugelhorn (Noun) 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) A tuba.
• hatzotzrah (Noun) An instrument similar to a trumpet used by the ancient Israelites.
• helicon (Noun) A large tuba whose coils fit around the player's shoulders.
• kerana (Noun) A long Persian trumpet.
• kombu (Noun) Edible kelp (“a type of brown seaweed”) (from the class Phaeophyceae) used in East Asian cuisine.
• natural trumpet (Noun) A valveless brass instrument that is able to play the notes of the harmonic series.
• onbeia (Noun) An elephant's tusk trumpet.
• ophicleide (Noun) A keyed brass baritone bugle, now replaced by the tuba in orchestral music
• post horn (Noun) A valveless musical instrument based on such a horn, used in orchestral music.
• quinticlave (Noun) An alto ophicleide.
• saxhorn (Noun) Any of a group of similar brass instruments, resembling a bugle in shape, but with valves
• slide trombone (Noun) A trombone equipped with a slide.
• slide trumpet (Noun) A trumpet fitted with a slide (an early form of a slide trombone)
• sonorophone (Noun) A kind of bombardon.
• sousaphone (Noun) 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) A brass instrument with a cylindrical bore and four valves.
• tenor trombone (Noun) The Most common type of trombone which has a fundamental note of B♭ and is usually treated as a non-transposing instrument.
• trombone (Noun) 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♭).
• tromboon (Noun) 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.
• trumpet (Noun) 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 marine (Noun) Synonym of tromba marina
• tuba (Noun) 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.
• vuvuzela (Noun) A trumpet-shaped horn, now usually plastic, that produces a loud buzzing sound.

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