The Brass Instrument Family

Tracey Titkemeier

General Music Class

4th Grade

What is a Family?

• People in a family are related to each other

• They usually look somewhat alike

• People probably tell you all the time that you look like your Mom or your Dad

• Although you are related to the people in your family, you are uniquely different from all of them

• You do not look exactly like someone else in your family, and you are probably a different size and shape than everyone else in your family too

• Your age is also probably different from everyone else in your family

• It would be weird if everyone in a family was exactly alike

• How would you be able to tell the difference between each other?

• What excitement would there be in life if everyone was the same?

Instruments and People

• Instruments are like people in certain ways

• Instruments look and sound different from one another, just like people look and talk different from each other

• Instruments also belong to families just like people do

Instrument Families

• There are four different instrument families

• 1) The Percussion Family

• 2) The String Family

• 3) The Woodwind Family

• 4) The Brass Family

• We are going to learn about the Brass Family• There are four instruments that belong to the

Brass Family • These instruments are:• The Trumpet• The French Horn• The Trombone• And the Tuba

• All of these instruments in the Brass Family are related to each other and are included in the “Brass” Family because they are all made out of a metal that is called “brass”

• This metal is gold looking and it is very shiny

• Although the instruments in the Brass Family are made out of the same kind of metal, they do not all look alike

• Some of the instruments are bigger than the others, and some are smaller

• Some of the instruments are shaped in a different way than the others

The Trumpet

• The first instrument in the Brass Family is the Trumpet

• The Trumpet is the smallest instrument in the Brass Family

• It makes a high pitched sound

The French Horn

• The second instrument in the Brass Family is the French Horn

• The French Horn is the second smallest instrument in the Brass Family

• It makes a lower pitched sound than the Trumpet

The Trombone

• The third instrument in the Brass Family is the Trombone

• The Trombone is the longest instrument in the Brass Family

• It makes a lower pitched sound than the French Horn

The Tuba

• The fourth instrument in the Brass Family is the Tuba

• The Tuba is the biggest instrument in the Brass Family

• It makes a very low pitched sound

Questions To Think About

• Do all of these instruments in the Brass Family look the same?

• What is different about each of them?

• How are they alike?

• Why are they all in the same family?

• The Trumpet, the French Horn, the Trombone, and the Tuba are all different instruments, but they all belong to the same family

• Just like people, instruments belong to a family too