Sousaphone, Saxophones,Accordion,Trumpet,Clarinet,Trombone &Drum Performance by Church Marching Band

Baritone Saxophone, Sousaphone, Alto Saxophone, Accordion, Trumpet, Clarinet, Trombone & Drum Performance by Church Marching Band @ Staten Island, NY
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Sousaphone:
The sousaphone is a type of tuba designed to be easier to play
than the concert tuba while standing or marching.
It is widely employed in marching bandsand various other
musical genres. Designed to fit around the body of the musician
and supported by the left shoulder, the sousaphone may be
readily played while being carried. It is useful in all types of
bands that play outdoors, as it directs the sound forward,
unlike a traditional upright tuba.
The first sousaphone was built by James Welsh Pepper in 1893 at
the request of American bandmaster & composer: John Philip
Sousa, and is named after him.
Baritone Saxophone:
The baritone saxophone or "bari sax" (commonly abbreviated bs
or bars to distinguish it from the less frequently used bass
saxophone) is one of the largest members of the saxophone family,
only being smaller than the bass, contrabass and sub contrabass
saxophones. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use,
and uses a mouthpiece, reed, and ligature that are larger than
the tenor, alto and soprano saxophones, the other commonly
found members of the family.
Saxophone:
The saxophone is a family of woodwind instruments.
Saxophones are usually made of brass and played
with a single-reedmouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet.
The saxophone family was invented by the Belgian
instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1840. Sax wanted
to create a group or series of instruments that would
be the most powerful and vocal of the woodwinds,
and the most adaptive of the brass-that would fill
the vacant middle ground between the two sections.
He patented the saxophone on June 28, 1846,
in two groups of seven instruments each.
The saxophone uses a single-reed mouthpiece
similar to that of the clarinet.
Accordion:
The accordion in its contemporary form was first
created in Europe in the early 1800s,
and its basic form is believed been invented
in Berlin in 1822 by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann.
An instrument called “accordion” was first patented
by Cyril Demian in 1829 in Austria.
The accordion is classified as a “free reed instrument.”
Accordion is a box-shaped musical instruments of the
bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type,
colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.
Trumpet:
Trumpet has the highest register in the brass family.
As a signaling device in battle or hunting,
trumpets have a very long history, dating back to at least 1500 BC;
they have been used as musical instruments since the 15th
century. Trumpets are used in art music styles,
where they are an instrument in the orchestra
and in concert bands, and in popular music styles such as jazz.
Clarinet:
The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group
known as the woodwind instruments.
It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight cylindrical tube with
an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell.
A person who plays a clarinet is called a clarinetist
(sometimes spelled clarinettist).
The word clarinet may have entered the English language via
the French clarinette (the feminine diminutive of Old French
clarin or clarion), or from Provençal clarin, "oboe".
Trombone:
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.
Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s
vibrating lips (embouchure) cause the air column inside the
instrument to vibrate. Nearly all trombones have a telescoping
slide mechanism that varies the length of the instrument to
change the pitch. Many modern trombone models also utilise
a rotary valve as a means to lower pitch of the instrument.
Variants such as the valve trombone and superfine have
three valves like those on the trumpet.
The word trombone derives from Italian tromba (trumpet) and
-one (a suffix meaning "large"), so the name means "large trumpet".
Drum:
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical
instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system,
it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane,
called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and
struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a drum stick,
to produce sound. There is usually a resonance head on the
underside of the drum, typically tuned to a slightly lower pitch than
the top drumhead.
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