brass instrument

Also known as lip-reed instrument, brass, labrosone, wind brass instrument

class of musical instruments

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A brass instrument is a class of musical instruments that produces sound through vibrating metal tubes, typically made of brass or similar materials. These instruments are important in many musical genres, from orchestras and bands to jazz, and they're valued for their powerful, distinctive sounds that can carry across large spaces.

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Skosmos: HornbostelAndSachs: Labrosones (or lip-reed instruments)

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The air itself is the vibrator in the primary sense. The standing waves are significantly confined within the instrument itself. The air-stream passes through the player's vibrating lips, so gaining intermittent access to the air column which is to be made to vibrate. (en)

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Official name: медные духовые инструменты
Image: Boston 1869 catalogue images (re-created 1).jpg

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Commons category: Brass instruments
Commons gallery: Brass instrument
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 423
described at URL: www.mimo-db.eu/HornbostelAndSachs/333

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Six high brass instruments Left, from top: A reproduction baroque trumpet in D, a modern trumpet in B♭, a modern trumpet in D, a piccolo trumpet in B♭ (octave higher), and a flugelhorn in B♭. Right: a cornet in B♭. A tenor horn (alto horn) in E♭, baritone horn in B♭, and euphonium in B♭

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. The term labrosone, from Latin elements meaning "lip" and "sound", is also used for the group, since instruments employing this "lip reed" method of sound production can be made from other materials like wood or animal horn, particularly early or traditional instruments such as the cornett, alphorn or shofar.