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Slide (wind instrument)

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consisting of two (or more) 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
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is used to adjust the main pitch of the instrument before playing. A modern double or triple
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This article is about slides used on wind instruments. For string instruments, see
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was invented in the 1920s by Chicago instrument maker Reiffel & Husted.
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has several tuning slides, which are sometimes moved during performance.
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while playing, to adjust the pitch of the note selected by the valves.
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Mechanism on wind instruments for selecting or adjusting pitch
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disassembled, showing main slide and smaller tuning slides,
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slide guitar
Disassembled trombone slide and tuning slides
trombone with slide extended
contrabass trombone double slide
Renaissance slide trumpet
slide whistle
slide saxophone
Trombone
contrabass trombone
Rijksmuseum
slide trumpet
slide whistle
slide saxophone
Museum of Making Music
wind instrument
contrabass trombone
trombone
slide whistle
tone holes
keys
valves
slide saxophone
french horn
trumpet
tuba
trigger
"Slide saxophone in C by Reiffel & Husted, c. 1922–1925"
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brass instruments
stub

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