Which orchestra instrument is the loudest?

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The band's 240 singers, musicians and concert technicians, many of whom have known each other for years, often give up other gigs to return to TSO.

Brass instruments are essentially very long pipes that widen at their ends into a bell-like shape. ... The brass family members that are most commonly used in the orchestra include the trumpet, French horn, trombone, and the tuba.

The three clef symbols used in modern music notation are the G-clef, F-clef, and C-clef. Placing these clefs on a line fixes a reference note to that line—an F-clef fixes the F below middle C, a C-clef fixes middle C, and a G-clef fixes the G above middle C.

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From the outset, the violin family was a favorite of musicians and composers alike for its range, flexibility, and sound. The violin family of instruments consists of four members, each a standard member of the orchestra: violins, violas, cellos, and double basses.

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Triangle, percussion instrument consisting of a steel rod bent into a triangle with one corner left open. It is suspended by a gut or nylon loop and struck with a steel rod. ... A single stroke on the triangle clearly penetrates the full force of an orchestra, and it is perhaps most effective when used sparingly.

In an orchestra, the clarinet takes on both solo roles and the middle register of the woodwind part, while in music for wind instruments the clarinet assumes a leading role (along with the trumpet). Due to its warm timbre and all-action playing style, it is also used as a solo instrument in genres such as swing jazz.

The smallest instrument in a traditional orchestra is the piccolo. A piccolo is a flute but is much smaller in size.

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Conductor Gustavo Dudamel

The saxophone is a wind instrument with a reed and the body is made of brass, and so it forms a bridge between the woodwind and brass sections of the orchestra. It has a single reed and a conical bore. At one time, there were two distinct schools of saxophone playing: the classical, and the jazz or popular.

An orchestra pit doesn't have to be located directly in front of the stage, either, although many patrons expect to see the orchestra performing in front of the stage; when an orchestra pit is elsewhere in the theaters, the conductor's movements may be broadcast on monitors visible from the stage, so that the actors ...

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In the context of theater music, a pit orchestra could have as few as maybe four or five players. A Baroque orchestra might have as few as eight to ten musicians, or as many as several dozen.

Many major cities, including Denver, have a thriving music scene that includes a symphony orchestra. In fact, there are over 1,800 orchestras in the US alone. However, only about 20% have professional musicians (source: League of American Orchestras).

String orchestras can be of chamber orchestra size ranging from between 12 (4 first violins, 3 second violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos and 1 bass = 12) and 21 musicians (6 first violins, 5 second violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos and 2 double basses= 21) sometimes performing without a conductor.

In modern times, the musicians are usually directed by a conductor, although early orchestras did not have one,giving this role instead to the concertmaster or the harpsichordist playing the continuo.

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The typical orchestra is divided into four groups of instruments: strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. The typical Western marching band, school band, or wind ensemble (woodwinds and brass together are winds) leaves out the strings, but otherwise uses most of the same instruments as the orchestra.

He was a longtime member of the James Last Orchestra. In classical music he recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra and accompanied opera singers, including José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, and Kiri Te Kanawa. His discography included the 1988 solo album, Increased Demand.

The term orchestra derives from the Greek ὀρχήστρα (orchestra), the name for the area in front of a stage in ancient Greek theatre reserved for the Greek chorus.

The Orchestra was also featured in a National Geographic documentary film entitled Ethiopia: The Hidden Empire (1970). [2] By 1975, due to the upheavals caused by the Derg revolution, the group finally disbanded, although many of its musicians continued to perform with other groups, and as soloists.