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MI: INTERACTIVE: BRASS TEST

Directions: For each question, chose the best answer, and click on it. Your choice will be graded instantly and the computers response will appear. Please remember that this test requires a 4.0 or later browser.


1: Which of the following instruments is a brass instrument?

Drums
Electric Guitar
Trombone
Saxaphone

Stuck? Check out the brass section of our library for help on this question!


2: What was the solution that Stolzel and Bluhmel produced in the early 19th century, that resolved the problems past trumpets had presented to musicians?
Valves which meant the limits of natural trumpets were no longer a problem.
Playing the instrument upside down.
Painting the instrument in a shiny color.
Using a mute to produce new sound effects.

Stuck? Check out the trumpet article in our library for help on this question!


3: Is this statement true or false?

"Trombones were originally called 'sackbuts'."

True
False

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4: Check the box next to the correct answer:

Which of these statements is incorrect in explaining why a French horn player puts his/her hand in the bell?

To support the instrument.
To refine the sound.
To hold the instrument together.
To achieve different effects.

Stuck? Check out the French horn article in our library for help on this question!


 

5: The first tubas were made in what city?

Chicago

Berlin

Sydney

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Thank You!

For taking our brass test! We hope that you did well and that you found this test beneficial to your understanding of the many brass instruments played around the world today. For more information on this topic, please see the brass section, under instruments, in our library. For more tests, please return to the interactive section!

 

 

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