![]() ![]() This voice description was used consistently throughout the 19th century in Italy and is found in operatic scores from Bellini to Verdi and Puccini. Although the term was in everyday use among musicians, composers, conductors, publishers and instrument makers throughout the century, the meaning of cimbasso was clear only to the extent that it described nothing more or less than the voice below the trombones, the deepest brass voice in fact. The term cimbasso emerged in Italy at the beginning of the 19th century and is probably an abbreviation of corno in basso (bass horn). History 19th century - cimbasso describes the deepest brass voice This valve was developed in Vienna by Joseph Riedl in 1835 and is now the most commonly used valve on brass instruments along with the Périnet or piston valve. Today the instrument is made in two keys, F and Eb (four valves) and is of the valved contrabass trombone type. The cimbasso is usually played by a tuba player because its mouthpiece is the same as the tuba's. The five rotary valves are operated by the right hand, the 5th valve by the right thumb the triggers of the first two valves are activated by the left hand. The cimbasso is about 120 cm high and is played in the sitting position, resting on the floor on a tail-pin or spike the length of which is adjustable. The most striking feature of the cimbasso is the front-facing bell, which points slightly downward when the instrument is in the correct playing position. Valves: Five valves (lowering pitch by 1, ½, 1½ steps, fourth-valve, 5th valve for the right thumb: wide whole step).Mouthpiece: Deep cup mouthpiece (corresponds to the tuba's mouthpiece).Material: Brass, gold brass, nickel silver, gold lacquer.Classification: Aerophone, lip-vibrated instrument, brass wind instrument. ![]() It`s alright, but the slide became crap really fast. I bought the Jupiter just because i thought it was cool. If you bought a Thein or Miraphone soprano and spent that kind of money on it, you`d know what you were doing with it before you ever shelled out that money. ![]() BUT i`m assuming you bought a Jupiter soprano for like 300 bucks. The slide positions will all be relatively the same as a tenor trombone in relation to the bell. A soprano trombone has a moving handslide and stationary bell. ![]() Most slide trumpets had a 4 note capacity to them. Slide trumpets were medieval instruments in which the bell moved back and forth, not the handslide. And waht he is talking about IS NOT A SLIDE TRUMPET. 3rd space on tenor clef reads as a B on tenor, but you move them up spaces and lines like you would treble. 3rd space on treble is a trumpet C which transposes to a trombone Bb. (and also add 2 flats to whatever the key signature is to make it bass)It`s also just like reading tenor clef. To convert treble into what you would see for bass clef, move any note on a space up 2 spaces, or if on a line move it up 2 lines and it will look like it should for bass clef. Soprano trombone can either transpose a trombone part up an octave, or you can read it treble from a trumpet. The only thing that really uses soprano clef is a Viola. Ummmm the soprano clef has nothing to do with the instrument being called soprano. ![]()
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