Best Brass Instrument: A Poll

bartman100
bartman100 Posts: 544
edited January 2017 in The cake stop
Which is the best Brass instrument?

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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,647
    bartman100 wrote:
    Which is the best Brass instrument?
    Sax. Because, Baker Street.
  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    See, I thought I'd be the only cornet voter but already a strong showing. Won't last.
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  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Saxophone. Clarence.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,740
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCDUJUhCGvA
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  • tomb57
    tomb57 Posts: 2,043
    Flugelhorn mellow sound
    Whoops who did that!
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,621
    Peruvian nose flute.
  • gethinceri
    gethinceri Posts: 1,519
    Can't beat a bit of tromboning.
  • Ber Nard
    Ber Nard Posts: 827
    I think you'll find the saxophone is a woodwind instrument. :roll:
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,647
    Ber Nard wrote:
    I think you'll find the saxophone is a woodwind instrument. :roll:
    made of?
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 58,573
    No option for rusty trumpets or trombones?
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  • eric_draven
    eric_draven Posts: 1,192
    This one

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA_n8tDsYJM
  • FatTed
    FatTed Posts: 1,205
    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.
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  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    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)
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    What a load of toss.
  • andcp
    andcp Posts: 644
    Gethinceri wrote:
    Can't beat a bit of tromboning.
    +1. Glen Miller is King
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  • Ber Nard
    Ber Nard Posts: 827
    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
    briantrumpet Posts: 17,936
    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' "
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    I voted Trumpet, but So What?
  • andcp
    andcp Posts: 644
    Garry H wrote:
    I voted Trumpet, but So What?
    depends - did you vote Brian or Donald?
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,099
    An unplayed one. Brass band music is an abhorrence.
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • bendertherobot
    bendertherobot Posts: 11,684
    Nowt wrong with brass bands but, as an instrument, skip to 4 minutes, that's a thing of beauty.
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  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,564
    This.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ky8P0dyfsg
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,602
    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
    First.Aspect Posts: 14,647
    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
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Andcp wrote:
    Garry H wrote:
    I voted Trumpet, but So What?
    depends - did you vote Brian or Donald?
    Miles
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 17,936
    Just a little bit of me blowing my own trumpet in my occasional big band in Count Basie's Queen Bee.
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  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    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
    briantrumpet Posts: 17,936
    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
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,373
    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.

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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,803
    Andcp wrote:
    Gethinceri wrote:
    Can't beat a bit of tromboning.
    +1. Glen Miller is King

    At giving or receiving?

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