Instrument of the family of the saxhornes, traditionally designated in the band of Artists Funchalenses by “trumpet of Our Lady. It has a removable nozzle and 3 piston system. Nozzle for mouthpiece Custódio Cardoso Pereira & Cª Portugal, Rua do Carmo 13 – Lisbon, post. 1861 Recording in to the bell: C C Pereira & Cª / R. Do Carmo, 13 / Lisboa Owner: Banda Municipal do Funchal (Artistas Funchalenses) Tuning: Mi b System: 3 pistons

The timpani are the most important percussion instruments of the orchestra, mainly because they are able to produce notes and the definition of tunings, being able to take part in the harmony of a composition. They are precisely tuned, each one for a given note, according to the directions of the composers in the score, which may be altered as necessary during the course of a piece (usually by changing a key), by tightening or widening the tympanic membrane by means of screws or other mechanisms. Each drum is made up of a large cup bowl or resonance tank, usually…

A lip vibration aerophone of the cylindrical body metal family. The most common trombones are understood to correspond to the tenor and bass of the trumpet [soprano-alto]. In its most usual form, the trombone is characterized by a telescopic rod with which the player varies the length of the tube; hence the term “trombone of rods”. Although Heinrich Stölzel, a co-inventor of the piston, considered the application of his invention to the trombone, it was other Vienna-based builders who in the 1920s employed the double piston system to this instrument. Made of high, tenor and bass tessitures, piston trombones peaked…

Tools of the family of metals with pistons. The tubing (usually not pointed out in the chart, tubing) is generally rolled in an elliptical form and terminates, at one end, in a wide bell (usually pointed up) and in another in a nozzle in cup shape, wide depth. The instrument has as its fundamental D1 (or more severe) and is equipped with 3 to 6 (often 4, rarely 7) pistons to change the length of the pipe and, consequently, the fundamental. A group of related instruments, of various shapes and sizes, can be referred to as the Tuba family constituent,…

“Instrument of pistons in brass tuned in Sib with the same same texture of the cornet. Conical body, wide bell and the large format of its predecessor, the horn of keys. The nozzle has a deep, almost funnel-shaped bowl and a sliding tube serves the tuning adjustment. The sonority is round and soft, though rough as the Bugle when this instrument is played in loud sonorous intensity. ” In this example the pistons and cylinders are replaced by a rotary valve system. The instrument has a removable nozzle. Nozzle for mouthpiece [Ernest Day?] Inscriptions in the bell: ERNEST DAY […]…