Brass players control their instruments by means of valves, and have to master 'embouchure' - the technique of using the mouth muscles to create notes of different pitch. ... The trombone pitches notes by lengthening the air column blowing through the fixed and moving parts of the tube. The slide positions only give the player a limited number of options, so like all brass-players the trombonist must create notes by moulding the muscles of his mouth to the cup of the mouthpiece. ... They range from a simple block of wood or metal which is struck, to the piano - played in a pe...

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Robert Levin had the piano setup in the middle of the orchestra, between the strings and the winds. ... Also, that the piano did not have a lid, it was fully exposed. ... Before the movement began he played a sample piece of C minor and D major, which is a symbolic note for the wind instruments like he said. ... The first movement was a piano concerto, which is the solo I had mentioned earlier. ... I"m not saying that this piano concerto was horrible but I just didn't enjoy as much the piano's performance in those two movements. ...

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Each player plays alternating notes of the scale. ... Debussy tried to capture something from what he heard - its pentatonic scale, unusual timbre and texture - in a number of his compositions, including the symphonic poem, "La Mer-, the piano work, "Pagodas- and a number of his piano preludes. ...

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