trumpet, French horn, trombone, and the tuba.
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Brass instruments tend to be made out of brass or other metals/alloys. Woodwind instruments have reeds, which makes a different sound to the brass instrument (in simple terms you have to blow raspberries into to make a sound- it is a little more complecated than that, but its hard to explain).
No. It is a woodwind reed instrument. The brass section includes: Trumpets, Cornets, Trombones, Tubas, Sousaphones, Baritones, F Horns (formerly known as French Horns), and any instrument that uses a brass mouthpiece and requires the player to "buzz" their lips to produce the instruments sound. "Buzzing" the lips is a phrase in which the instrument player makes a buzzing sound with their lips. Commonly used in brass instruments.
One difference is that woodwind instruments use a wooden reed to form the mouthpiece. The reed sits at the back of the mouthpiece (on the bottom lip) and vibrates against the rest of the mouthpiece to help create the sound. Brass and woodwind instruments are both played by blowing into them (or over them in the case of the flute). Brass instruments do not have any moving parts that vibrate to create a sound. They merely amplify the sound created by the players lips vibrating. Woodwind instruments have a reed that vibrates except for the flute which splits a column of air to make vibrations. Brass instruments change their pitch by changing the length of tubing which the air passes through. Woodwind instruments change their pitch by changing the where the air escapes from the instrument.
The tone of a brass instrument hugely depends on how it is being played. All brass instruments can sound sweet if the player is making it sound that way.
"Cup" style mouthpieces that you purse your lips and blow into, rather than putting your mouth around them.All brass instruments produce sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. All brass instruments are also called labrosones, meaning "lip-vibrated instruments".