Brass Instrument
Trombone
Brass Family instruments produce their unique sound by the player buzzing
his/her lips while blowing air through a cup- or funnel-shaped mouthpiece. To
produce higher or lower pitches, the player adjusts the opening between his/her
lips. The mouthpiece connects to a length of brass tubing ending in a bell.
The shorter the tubing length, the smaller the instrument, and the higher the
sound; and the longer the tubing length, the larger the instrument, and the
lower the sound. The brass family can trace its ancestry back to herald trumpets,
hunting horns, and military bugles. The main instruments of the brass family
include the trumpet, horn, trombone, and tuba.
The mouthpiece of the trombone is larger than that of a trumpet, and
gives the instrument a more mellow sound. Instead of valves, the trombone has
a slide which changes the length of its approximately 9 feet of tubing to reach
different pitches.
This project was created by Ahmed Azab.
Since �2001
