Slide (wind instrument)
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slide-wind-instrument-181-15840916
title:
Slide (wind instrument)
text:
A slide is a part of a wind instrument consisting of two pieces of tubing fitted one closely inside the other, and used to vary the overall length of the tube, and therefore the pitch of the instrument. Often two sets of tubes are used, with a U bend attaching them; this arrangement is called a single slide. A double slide, where two U-shaped slides are braced together and move on four inner tubes, is found on the B♭ contrabass trombone. Slides are used in three main ways:
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Mechanism on wind instruments for selecting or adjusting pitch
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_(wind_instrument)
date created:
2006-04-22T00:49:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T04:28:56Z
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