Most instruments made from brass are wind instruments - either from the "brass" family or from the "woodwind" family (neither name is accurate!), and the comments below are about wind instruments. read more
Most instruments made from brass are wind instruments - either from the "brass" family or from the "woodwind" family (neither name is accurate!), and the comments below are about wind instruments. Arguments rage over whether the materials of which wind instruments are made, affect the sound. read more
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". read more