The saxophone is considered a woodwind instrument and not a brass instrument even though it is made of brass. Musical instruments are not actually classified based on what they are made of, but how sounds are produced using them. stagemusiccenter.com/musiβ¦
The song we commonly associate with clowns and a circus wasn't originally intended to be used that way. 'Grande Marche Chromatique' (Entrance of the Gladiators) was composed by Czech composer Julius FuΔΓk and the piece was supposed to demonstrate the ability of modern brass instruments. musictales.club/article/eβ¦
Spit and condensed water accumulate in brass instruments and need to be drained regularly. Tumpets have "water keys" for this purpose. youtu.be/TGp_Hdi5ZH0
The bazooka was a brass musical instrument created by Comedian Bob Burns. It was several feet in length and incorporated telescopic tubing like the trombone. The military borrowed the nickname for its anti-tank weapon during World War II due to its vague resemblance to the musical instrument. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazβ¦
The view of most scholars is that the term "brass instrument" should be defined by the way the sound is made, by lip vibration, and not by whether the instrument is actually made of brass. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braβ¦
The saxhorn was the most common brass instrument in American Civil War bands. The over-the-shoulder variety of the instrument was used, as the backward-pointing bell of the instrument allowed troops marching behind the band to hear the music. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxβ¦
There is a small musical key on an instrument that is never "played" in music, and it is called a "water key". It is often erroneously called a "spit valve" because of the wrongly held belief that the drained liquid is spit. It's actually condensed moisture from exhaled breath. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watβ¦
Today I learned about Circular breathing, a technique used by players of some wind instruments to produce a continuous tone without interruption. This is accomplished by breathing in through the nose while simultaneously pushing air out through the mouth using air stored in the cheeks. breathing.com/blogs/breatβ¦
Musicians need to "play-in" a violin to ease its harshness, before it's used in a performance. Musical vibrations alter the structure of cellulose molecules in the wood, and change the internal resonances of the body aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?β¦
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