Hey Nancy, No, a brass instrument stays in tune unless one of the tuning slides is moved. Woodwinds can slip tune slightly due to reed and mouthpiece variations. Flutes are pretty solid and stay where they are set. Guitars, Pianos, and all members of the String family must be tuned frequently, because the strings are under tension, and they will relax in time, going flat. Here are my 5 String Instruments, my 3 Keyboards, and my 3 Woodwinds. Hal
My Trumpet arrived yesterday, so now I must work on getting my chops in condition by buzzing the mouthpiece frequently, even when I'm not practicing the horn! Hal
Isn't the first photo showing a tuba? I put "tuba" in search online and it shows what you have in the first photo.
No, Cody, that's a Tenor Horn. The next larger instrument is a Baritone Horn, A Tuba would be bigger than than the Baritone! Hal
When I was in school, I played one of those E-flat alto horns. I was never interested in playing it, but my mother wanted me to learn, and she bought the instrument, and so I packed it off to school on Tuesdays and Thursdays for band practice. It was called an “Altonium horn”. Since it was a tenor instrument, and not in bass clef, I didn’t have to learn a different set of notes from the piano or the accordion , and I think that after Junior Hign, I didn’t play it any more, at least i don’t remember taking it to high school. I enjoyed playing the accordion, didn’t much care about piano, and always wanted an organ instead. When I was little, my mother had one of the old pump organs, and how I loved pumping the pedals and putting the different stops in or out to see what difference it made in the sound of he organ voices.
I enjoyed your musical remembrance,Yvonne! Yes, the Baritone Horn and the Tuba are in Bass Clef. Harry
@Hal Pollner I took trumpet lessons while in high school. Thought I could thereby impress the girls. My lips could not take the beating (and I don't mean from the girls' reaction!). The clarinet is a reed instrument, I think: is that less stressful on the mouth parts? Frank
You're absolutely right, Frank! (as usual) The Trumpet, as with all members of the Brass Instrument family, requires the lips to produce the sound through pressure-induced vibrations. This means the lips are constantly sustaining varying degrees of pressure against the mouthpiece as well as sustaining the vibrations required to produce the musical note. The higher the note required, the greater the pressure from the lungs and on the lips to make them vibrate faster. The Woodwind Instruments, on the other hand (with the exception of the Flute and Piccolo), use reeds as the tone-producing element. These instruments include Saxophones of all sizes, Clarinets of all sizes, Oboes, English Horns, and the Bassoons, including the giant Contrabass Bassoon, which produces tones resembling deep growls. The reeds in these instruments are activated by a stream of air blowing across them, the lips having nothing to do but seal the mouthpiece on the outside, so all the air is directed across the reed. I joined a beginning student band in Junior High School, 71 years ago, choosing the Clarinet. I became mildly proficient with it, and when I took up the Saxophone a few years later, it was very easy, as the fingerings are nearly identical, and reaching the top octave only required pressing the "octave key"! Going to a higher octave on the Trumpet requires a lot of extra lip and lung pressure, as you well remember! I'll be receiving my "Licorice Stick" in a couple weeks from a music store in New Jersey. Hal
After attending my first meeting at the million-dollar Del Webb Aspen Clubhouse, I realized that none of the more than 30 members of the Sun City Train Club modeled in my scale, which is O-Scale, 2-Rail, at 1/48 Scale. Thus, I had nobody I could share modeling with...I was a Lone Wolf! They all modeled in HO, N, and 3-Rail Lionel, none of which interests me. Hal
...after sending back the Trumpet for exchange. I first started with the Clarinet in Junior High 71 years ago, when I chose Beginning Band as an elective. I'll have to re-learn some of the Keywork, especially when going from the Chalumeau Register to the Altissimo Register. Check out Acker Bilk's beautiful recording of "Stranger on The Shore"! I'll be trying to master that as a soon as I know my way around the keys! Hal
I once played the trumpet, and my wife plays the piano. One daughter plays the clarinet and the other plays the flute and piccolo. Three sons play the guitar and piano.
Well at least you have a Woodwind section, Don! Get one of the sons to play the Bass, and you'll be getting somewhere! Hal