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Discover the most powerful section of the orchestra!

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Discover the most powerful section of the orchestra!

SUBJECTS:  Arts

YEARS:  3–4


Can you name the four instruments that make up the brass section of the orchestra?

Like musicians in the woodwind section, the brass players power their instruments with air.

But how do they do this differently?


Acknowledgements

With thanks to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.


Date of broadcast: 5 May 2016


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