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Statutes – Banda Distrital do Funchal
The Banda Distrial do Funchal has in its estates a book of statutes, of November 9, 1962 that we consider the oldest. One particularity of these statutes is they were typed and printed, usually the statutes were handwritten in the minutes books in some cases.
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Statutes – Banda Municipal de Câmara de Lobos
Statutes of the Banda Municipal de Câmara de Lobos.
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Statutes – Banda Recreio Camponês
Statutes of the Banda Recreio Camponês dated 1931.
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Membership Form – Banda Recreio Camponês
Name: Zélia Maria Ferreira Member: 165
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Clarinet in Eb
Clarinet in E-flat (used especially in the military bands, but also in the orchestras). Single vane wood blowing instrument, stop, and closed cylindrical tube (the first harmonic is a 12 ° from the fundamental). Its current form dates back to 1700. Today the instrument is divisible into four (or five) sections: bell, 1st part, 2nd part, barrel and mouthpiece (with pick); the system used comprises between 20 and 22 keys. Instrument divided into 5 sections (bell, body – 2 pieces, barrel and mouthpiece). It has 5 holes and 17 keys (2 open). Edge aerof Couesnon & C.ie France – Paris,…
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Cornet
Piston Aerosol of the metal family with tuning in contralto or soprano, developed in the late 20s of the 19th century. The three pistons are in most models positioned after the main tube about halfway along the length of the sound tubing. There is a more pronounced cone between the receiver of the nozzle and the pistons than in the modern trumpet. The shape of the modern bugle mouthpiece is not substantially different from that of the modern trumpet, but the hole is smaller and less conical. The bugle tuned in Sib in unison with the Sib trumpet is the…
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Piccolo
“Divided into 3 or 4 pieces, it is in the first, the upper one, which is naturally the mouthpiece and the cork which, actuated by a screw that connects it to the hat by a slight rotation, regulates the need for tuning. Of cane, wood, ivory or glass, rubber, white metal, silver and gold, the flute that reached seventeen keys, began to have none and is now eleven. The main improvements in the mechanics of this instrument are due to Quantz, Tromlitz, Grenzer, Schwedler and Bohm, who gave him more artistic possibilities.” Wooden instrument in cylindrical form, consisting of four…
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Flugelhorn
“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, although rough as the Bugle when this instrument is played in loud sound “Instruments composed of three cylinders and three pistons topped with mother-of-pearl plates. It has a removable nozzle. Nozzle for mouthpiece Couesnon Paris Paris – France, post. 1931 Recording in to the bell: Couesnon Paris…




