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  1. brass familynoun

    (music) the family of brass instruments

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  1. brass family

    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. Brass instruments are also called labrosones or labrophones, from Latin and Greek elements meaning 'lip' and 'sound'. There are several factors involved in producing different pitches on a brass instrument. Slides, valves, crooks (though they are rarely used today), or keys are used to change vibratory length of tubing, thus changing the available harmonic series, while the player's embouchure, lip tension and air flow serve to select the specific harmonic produced from the available series. The view of most scholars (see organology) is that the term "brass instrument" should be defined by the way the sound is made, as above, and not by whether the instrument is actually made of brass. Thus one finds brass instruments made of wood, like the alphorn, the cornett, the serpent and the didgeridoo, while some woodwind instruments are made of brass, like the saxophone.

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  1. brass family

    The brass family refers to a group of musical instruments that produce sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Brass instruments are also called labrosones, and they are characterised by their bright, bold, resonating sound. This family includes instruments such as trumpet, trombone, tuba, French horn, cornet, and bugle, among others. The instruments in the brass family are often used in both orchestras and bands.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of brass family in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of brass family in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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