1. Brass
Instruments
Mrs Divane
Grade 3 Instruments

2. Brass Instruments
•Brass instruments are made of brass most of the time,
but can also be made out of other metals too.
•All brass instruments have three major sections:
a mouthpiece
a length of tubing
and a bell

3. Mouthpieces
• Big instruments need big mouthpieces to
make the sound.
• Smaller instruments can have smaller
mouthpieces to make sure the sound is high
enough.

4. Valves and slides
All Brass Instruments have valves
EXCEPT the trombone!
The trombone uses a slide.
valves
valves

5. The 4 main brass instruments
Trumpet
French Horn
Tuba
Trombone

6. The Trumpet
• It has
three
valves.
smallest
highest
made of brass
or silver

7. The French Horn
• The second smallest brass instrument.
• Made of brass, silver or nickel.
• 3 valves.
The only “left-handed” instrument.

8. The Trombone
• Italian - big trumpet.
• French - paper clip.
• The slide makes the instrument longer which
makes the sound lower.

9. The Tuba
• Biggest
• Made of brass or silver
• Four valves

10. other brass instruments
• Flugelhorn
Baritone
Sousaphone
Alphorn
Bugle
Euphonium
mellophone

11. AA shofarshofar
An ancient trumpetAn ancient trumpet
made from ramsmade from rams
hornhorn
AA conch shellconch shell
A sea shell used asA sea shell used as
a trumpeta trumpet
AnAn AlphornAlphorn
A horn that isA horn that is
made of wood andmade of wood and
is in many sectionis in many section
– still used today!– still used today!