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Slide (wind instrument), the Glossary

A slide is a part of a wind instrument consisting of two (or more) pieces of tubing fitted one closely inside the other, and used to vary the overall length of the tube, and therefore the pitch of the instrument.^[1]

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14 relations: Brass instrument, Brass instrument valve, Contrabass trombone, French horn, Key (instrument), Museum of Making Music, Rijksmuseum, Saxophone, Slide whistle, Tone hole, Trombone, Trumpet, Tuba, Wind instrument.
Aerophone instrument stubs
Brass instrument parts and accessories
Musical instrument parts and accessories

Brass instrument

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.

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Brass instrument valve

Brass instrument valves are valves used to change the length of tubing of a brass instrument allowing the player to reach the notes of various harmonic series. Slide (wind instrument) and brass instrument valve are brass instrument parts and accessories.

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Contrabass trombone

The contrabass trombone (Kontrabassposaune, trombone contrabbasso) is the lowest-pitched instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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Key (instrument)

A key is a component of a musical instrument, the purpose and function of which depends on the instrument. Slide (wind instrument) and key (instrument) are musical instrument parts and accessories.

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Museum of Making Music

The Museum of Making Music, is a division of the National Association of Music Merchants' NAMM Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Carlsbad, California.

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Rijksmuseum

The Rijksmuseum is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass.

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Slide whistle

A slide whistle (variously known as a swanee or swannee whistle, lotus flute, piston flute, or jazz flute) is a wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it.

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Tone hole

A tone hole is an opening in the body of a wind instrument which, when alternately closed and opened, changes the pitch of the sound produced.

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Trombone

The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Trumpet

The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.

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Wind instrument

A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator.

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See also

Aerophone instrument stubs

Brass instrument parts and accessories

Musical instrument parts and accessories

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_(wind_instrument)