"The next family in the orchestra is the brass family. There are four instruments in this family: the trumpet, the trombone, the tuba, and the French horn. All these instruments are made of long brass or silver tubes that are twisted around and around. If you think I am long," said Mr. Piano, "well, you don't even want to see the brass instruments with their tubes are unrolled. The trumpet would be 6 1/2 feet long, the trombone - 9 feet, the French horn has 12 feet of very narrow tubing, and the tuba is sixteen feet of tubing, some of it is really big."

picture of a trumpetpicture of a trombonepicture of a tubapicture of a French horn

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