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The Canadian Brass are a Canadian brass quintet, which completes nearly 40 performance seasons with the international reputation for excellence. Using these instruments, they frequently perform the Baroque music which has defined their own sound. But sometimes the musicians stray outside the Baroque to include the jazz, contemporary classical music and even hit songs at their concerts. In the quintet music, there are four different instruments played by the Canadian Brass with two trumpets, a horn, trombone and a tuba.
Trumpet:
The Trumpet is declared as the high pitching instrument till date. The Historical trumpets have been found before 4,000 years. In the past, the trumpets were like the straight tubes. The modern folded trumpet was developed only in the 15th Century. The Modern trumpets are brass horns which consists of three valves. Normally they are used in the classical music and tuned to B-flat. They can even reach three octaves above their basic B-flat. The Canadian Brass features includes two trumpet players. The sounds of the trumpet is louder than any other brass instrument played by the Canadian Brass.
Horn:
The horn is also a louder instrument often called as the French horn, which is one of the longest horns in the Canadian brass. The only longer horn with 17 feet in the Canadian Brass is the tuba. The horn evolved in the 18th Century and moved from the continental Europe to England, but still now it is called as the French horn. The French horns generally have three valves and are available in a number of base pitches. The modern horn is often based on the new F-flat, but some horns are also B-flat.
Trombone:
The trombone was developed as a variation of the medieval trumpet. This variation added a U-shaped slide and it is used to create and control the chromatic tones of the instrument. It is nearly 9 feet long and a common design base pitch of the trombone is B-flat. The slides in the trombone lengthens or shortens the tubing to allow for the lowering of the pitch. Normally most of the trombones are B-flat and can be tuned to different notes and ranges.
Tuba:
The lowest tones by the Canadian Brass are produced by the tuba. Normally the tuba refers to a family of brass instruments tuned to a variety of bass notes, including F, E, C and B-Flat. A tuba is a tri-valve instrument which was developed as a result of the other horn and the musical experimentation during the 19th Century. The tuba is played vertically, with the bell of the instruments facing upward. The length of the instruments can vary the bass tuba and the length varies from 13.75 feet long.
These are the high pitching Canadian instruments which are used as the brass band instruments worldwide with the high defined quality.
