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- How fast do the lips vibrate when playing a brass instrument?
- Which instrument is played by vibrating the lips?
- How are the lips used on a brass instrument?
- Which brass instruments are played by buzzing your lips?
How fast do the lips vibrate when playing a brass instrument?
For a high trumpet note, the lips may vibrate at more than 1000 vibrations per second. This is fast, but remember that the muscles are not contracting at that rate: the muscles in the brass player's lips exert almost constant tension, and it is the elastic and aerodynamic forces on the lips that produce the vibration.
Which instrument is played by vibrating the lips?
Sound is produced by buzzing the lips
Saxophones and clarinets utilize a small part called a reed that vibrates and produces noise. Trombones do not. Since they do not use reeds, when playing a trombone a player causes his or her lips to vibrate-basically acting as the instrument's reed.
How are the lips used on a brass instrument?
While performing on a brass instrument, the sound is produced by the player buzzing their lips into a mouthpiece. Pitches are changed in part through altering the amount of muscular contraction in the lip formation.
Which brass instruments are played by buzzing your lips?
You play the trumpet by holding it horizontally, buzzing your lips into the mouthpiece, and pressing down the three valves in various combinations to change pitch.
