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This page is a resource for sales staff working in the Musical Instruments Retail sector - it is not intended to be an encyclopaedia entry. Beware, this and many other pages may contain jokes and wry comments (like this one).
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Alto Horn, Baritone Horn, Bugle, Cornet, Euphonium, Flugelbone, Flugelhorn, French Horn, Horn, Sousaphone, Tenor Horn, Trombone, Trumpet, Tuba.
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Accessories.
ALTO HORN - SEE BARITONE HORN AND/OR TENOR HORN
The Bb Baritone (sometimes called Alto horn in the UK and Australia) is the second smallest of the horn family of concert, military or marching band brass instruments.
A small horn (i.e. it has a tapered or conical bore) with no valves, as used by the military.
Same pitch and range as a trumpet but with the conical bore.
Big brother of the Baritone Horn. Also in Bb but with a more radically conical bore and a larger bell.
A cross between a flugelhorn and a trombone, invented by Kanstul. In the key of Bb, kind of a valved marching trombone with a conical bore.
A conical bore horn in Bb with the same range as the trumpet. It has a more open bore and a larger bell than the cornet.
They are not always made of red brass as the one in the picture is and are often silver plated.
Also called simply the "Horn", available in several different models with various numbers of valves and tuning slides. Used in orchestral music.
HORN - SEE FRENCH HORN
A wrap-around tuba used for marching bands. The player rests the instrument on one shoulder by placing his/her head through the middle section of the large circular loop. Also sometimes used in trad jazz bands.
In the key of Eb, smallest of the "mini-tuba"-shaped horns.
Also called Slide Trombone.
Often silver-plated like this one, trumpets are usually in the key of Bb.
The biggest (and therefore lowest) of the brass instruments available in a number of sizes and keys: the "single" Bb
and Eb, and a number of instruments pitched an octave lower called "double" Bb & Eb (written BBb & EEb), and the classical in C and and occasionally in F. The double horns often have four valves, arranged in three main configurations: a single row of 4 across the top, three top & one side, or "front mounted" (often rotary valves like on a French Horn) used when played in the sitting position.
The player's lips buzz inside the mouthpiece to produce the sound of the instrument.
Alphorn, Baroque Trumpet, Bazooka (a kind of gimmicky instrument first, an anti-tank weapon named after it during WWII), Cimbasso, Fiscorn, Flumpet, Helicon, Kuhlohorn, Mellophone, Ophicleide, Quinticlave, Sackbut, Serpent, Shofar, Wagner Tuba.