Best Brass Instrument: A Poll

bartman100

Which is the best Brass instrument?

First.Aspect

bartman100 wrote:

Which is the best Brass instrument?

Sax. Because, Baker Street.

bendertherobot

See, I thought I'd be the only cornet voter but already a strong showing. Won't last.

webboo

Saxophone. Clarence.

rick_chasey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCDUJUhCGvA

tomb57

Flugelhorn mellow sound

mrb123

Peruvian nose flute.

gethinceri

Can't beat a bit of tromboning.

Ber Nard

I think you'll find the saxophone is a woodwind instrument. :roll:

First.Aspect

Ber Nard wrote:

I think you'll find the saxophone is a woodwind instrument. :roll:

made of?

Stevo_666

No option for rusty trumpets or trombones?

eric_draven

This one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA_n8tDsYJM

FatTed

Ber Nard wrote:

I think you'll find the saxophone is a woodwind instrument. :roll:

Woodwind instruments aren't necessarily made of wood. The term "woodwind instrument" refers to wind instruments whose sound production principle is not lip reed; lip reed is sound production system of brass instruments which make sound by vibrating your lips. Flute and piccolo produce a sound by vibrating air when you blows air against an edge of embouchure hole on the headjoint. Saxophone and clarinet produce a sound by vibrating a single reed attached to the mouthpiece. Oboe and bassoon produce a sound by vibrating two reeds, so they are called double reed instrument.
(Yamaha)

webboo

FatTed wrote:

Ber Nard wrote:

I think you'll find the saxophone is a woodwind instrument. :roll:

Woodwind instruments aren't necessarily made of wood. The term "woodwind instrument" refers to wind instruments whose sound production principle is not lip reed; lip reed is sound production system of brass instruments which make sound by vibrating your lips. Flute and piccolo produce a sound by vibrating air when you blows air against an edge of embouchure hole on the headjoint. Saxophone and clarinet produce a sound by vibrating a single reed attached to the mouthpiece. Oboe and bassoon produce a sound by vibrating two reeds, so they are called double reed instrument.
(Yamaha)

I have a carbon fibre bike made of steel as it was made in a wax mold.
What a load of toss.

andcp

Gethinceri wrote:

Can't beat a bit of tromboning.

+1. Glen Miller is King

Ber Nard

First Aspect wrote:

Ber Nard wrote:

I think you'll find the saxophone is a woodwind instrument. :roll:

made of?

Doesn't matter. A saxophone has a reed so it's a woodwind instrument. It is not regarded as a brass instrument.

briantrumpet

First Aspect wrote:

Ber Nard wrote:

I think you'll find the saxophone is a woodwind instrument. :roll:

made of?

If you want to call the sax a brass instrument, you'll also need to include metal flutes. And metal clarinets (yes, they do exist). The crucial part of the definition of a brass instrument is that the noise is made by the vibration of the player's lips (not by a reed):

"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, literally meaning 'lip-vibrated instruments' "

Garry H

I voted Trumpet, but So What?

andcp

Garry H wrote:

I voted Trumpet, but So What?

depends - did you vote Brian or Donald?

secretsam

An unplayed one. Brass band music is an abhorrence.

bendertherobot

Nowt wrong with brass bands but, as an instrument, skip to 4 minutes, that's a thing of beauty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCcZ90NWHZM

bendertherobot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQWpyn4WEik

Wheelspinner

This.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ky8P0dyfsg

Pross

Euphonium, it has the nicest tone of them all. I've played cornet, baritone and E flat bass (tuba) in the past as I gradually got moved down in the vain hope I might find one I was good at but they skipped the euphonium no doubt as I would have spoiled it. Cornet and trumpet are too shrill for my liking. As above, whilst I love the sound of the sax especially baritone sax it has no place on that list. It is played with a reed whilst brass instruments aren't - the material it's made from is irrelevant.

First.Aspect

briantrumpet wrote:

First Aspect wrote:

Ber Nard wrote:

I think you'll find the saxophone is a woodwind instrument. :roll:

made of?

If you want to call the sax a brass instrument, you'll also need to include metal flutes. And metal clarinets (yes, they do exist). The crucial part of the definition of a brass instrument is that the noise is made by the vibration of the player's lips (not by a reed):

"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, literally meaning 'lip-vibrated instruments' "

I know. I played the clarinet as a child. But now, there's a good deal of "who cares?" going on.

Garry H

Andcp wrote:

Garry H wrote:

I voted Trumpet, but So What?

depends - did you vote Brian or Donald?

Miles

briantrumpet

Just a little bit of me blowing my own trumpet in my occasional big band in Count Basie's Queen Bee.

Garry H

briantrumpet wrote:

Just a little bit of me blowing my own trumpet in my occasional big band in Count Basie's Queen Bee.

Bravo sir! I'm running upstairs to search my CD collection as I type this.

briantrumpet

And of course, an unforgivable omission from the list, the French horn. A good an example of what it can do in the hands of experts is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ThfCLhUHOQ

pinno

I quite like brass bands, they can be very mellow.

I have to vote Trumpet because it is at the heart of Jazz. I never tire of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPEVmBOfiC8

..but I love the clarinet.

Let's have a bit of this to re-arrange the molecules in the head back to their original position.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq6E_D2 ... GSuNcC9eF8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q0zZ0VdlUM

thegreatdivide

Andcp wrote:

Gethinceri wrote:

Can't beat a bit of tromboning.

+1. Glen Miller is King

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