French horn

:n (Music / Instruments) Music a valved brass instrument with a funnel-shaped mouthpiece and a tube of conical bore coiled into a spiral. It is a transposing instrument in F. Range about three and a half octaves upwards from B on the second leger line below the bass staff See horn

Trombone
n. A brass instrument consisting of a long cylindrical tube bent upon itself twice, ending in a bell-shaped mouth, and having a movable U-shaped slide for producing different pitches.

Trompeta s. f.
1 Instrumento musical de viento de la familia del metal que est formado por un tubo doblado dos veces sobre s mismo, con una boquilla en un extremo y una abertura en forma de cono en el otro; se toca pulsando tres pistones que tiene en el tubo. s. com.

Cornet
n.

1. Music A wind instrument of the trumpet class, having three valves operated by pistons. 2. also (kr n t) A piece of paper twisted into a cone and used to hold small wares such as candy or nuts. 3. also (kr n t) A headdress, often cone-shaped, worn by women in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Tuba
n pl -bas, -bae [-bi] 1. (Music / Instruments) a valved brass instrument of bass pitch, in which the bell points upwards and the mouthpiece projects at right angles. The tube is of conical bore and the mouthpiece cup-shaped 2. (Music / Instruments) any other bass brass instrument such as the euphonium, helicon, etc. 3. (Music, other) a powerful reed stop on an organ 4. (Historical Terms) a form of trumpet of ancient Rome [Latin]

xy lophon ist n.
Word History: Alphabet books for children frequently feature the word xylophone because it is one of the few words beginning with xthat a child (or most adults, for that matter) would know. The majority of English words beginning with x, including many obscure scientific terms, are of Greek origin, the x, pronounced (z), representing the Greek letter xi. In the case of xylophone, xylo- is a form meaning "wood," derived from Greek xulon, "wood," and -phone represents Greek ph n , "voice, sound," the same element found in words such as telephone, microphone, and megaphone. Our famous x word is first recorded in the April 7, 1866, edition of theAthenaeum: "A prodigy ... who does wonderful things with little drumsticks on a machine of wooden keys, called the 'xylophone.'"