"Infant Body-Builders and Lip Baking": Brass

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🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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DOOT DOOOOOT yes we're back with another orchestral watcha-ma-call-it, and today it's BRASS. So sit back, relax, and enjoy a one way ticket to brass-town, via dodgy names for the trombone, dancing princesses, and advanced seed-spitting techniques.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 39 of that classical podcast this time
0:05.7	brass.
0:07.7	Hello!
0:08.7	Hello!
0:09.7	My name's Chris Bland and my name's Kelly Harlock.
0:11.7	You're listening to episode 39 of that classical
0:14.0	podcast. Today we're going to be talking all about brass instruments.
0:18.0	Carrying on with our little series of talking about various instruments all around
0:21.8	the orchestra. We're taking a little stroll over to
0:24.2	Brastown today. So the main difference between Brass and Woodwind, they're the two families in the orchestra
0:30.2	where you blow into one end and sound comes out the other end but the main difference comes in the sound production do you remember Kelly from my episode about Woodwind what what is the sound production method for woodwind it's splitting over a reed. Exactly. You blow a jet of air and it gets split over a
0:46.7	reed or a mouthpiece and then it goes to to toot out the other end. Now with brass you've got a sort of a round mouthpiece where all the air goes into that mouthpiece
0:56.4	but you're effectively blowing a raspberry into it.
0:59.8	And it's like a really specific raspberry. Like I watch videos about it.
1:03.8	And the guys are like, just pretend you're spitting out a seed.
1:07.4	Like a, like,
1:08.3	like, pfffthfthfthfthfthfthfthfthfththfth.
1:12.1	No, I'm just going out. It's like really like a dainty one like no. I'm just going up
1:13.9	It doesn't sound like dainty one like honestly. It's fascinating. I had no idea it's great and can't you get like different shape mouthpieces? Oh yes you can. Yeah
1:20.8	So most of them are circular dome shaped ones but then French horns
1:26.2	usually a bit longer right okay but anyway so you blow this sort of
1:29.4	delicate raspberry into one end of it and the air goes round, loads and loads of piping and
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