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Saxotrombas

These are brass instruments with cup-formed mouthpieces and three, four or five cylinders, like the preceding. Their narrower tube gives them a shrill timbre, somewhat similar to that of the trumpets and, at the

same time, of the bugles. The saxotromba family has as many members as that

of the saxhorns. They stand in the same relation to each other and have the same range.