Prompt 7 of 7
Name a brass instrument
37 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Ophicleide— Keyed brass beast of the 1800s that fathered the tuba.
85 ptsDeep Cut20 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Bazooka— Bob Burns's novelty horn lent its name to the rocket launcher.
- Carnyx— Celtic war horn topped with a snarling boar's head.
- Cimbasso— Low, snarling brass that Verdi loved for opera villains.
- Conch shell— Lip-buzzed like a bugle, and a Bronze Age instrument worldwide.
- Cornett— Wooden horn with finger holes, no relation to the cornet.
- Didgeridoo— Lip-vibrated wood, which files it with brass rather than woodwind.
- Dungchen
- Helicon— Circular bass horn worn over the shoulder; the sousaphone grew from it.
- Lur— Curved bronze horn pulled from Nordic bogs, some still playable.
- Mellophone— Takes the French horn's part when the band hits the field.
- Natural horn— Valveless, so pitch comes from lips and a hand in the bell.
- Olifant
- Posthorn
- Sackbut— Renaissance ancestor of the trombone, with a smaller bell and softer tone.
- Saxhorn— Adolphe Sax built this whole family too, not just the saxophone.
- Serpent— Wooden, leather-wrapped and S-curved, it anchored church choirs for 200 years.
- Shofar— A ram's horn blown by lip buzz, sounded at Rosh Hashanah.
- Trembita
- Valve trombone— Trombone tubing with trumpet valves; Bob Brookmeyer made a career on it.
- Wagner tuba— Commissioned because no existing brass sounded right for the Ring.
60 ptsRare9 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Alphorn
- Baritone horn
- Bass trombone
- Cornet
- Euphonium
- Piccolo trumpet
- Sousaphone— Marching-band tuba you wear wrapped around your body.
- Tenor horn
- Vuvuzela— Plastic, but lip-buzzed like any horn; it defined the 2010 World Cup.
30 ptsSchooler2 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Bugle
- French horn
15 ptsToo Clever2 answers
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Flugelhorn— Mellower, rounder cousin of the trumpet; Chuck Mangione's calling card.
- Saxophone— Brass body, woodwind reed, and we count it here anyway.
10 ptsPlankton3 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Trombone
- Trumpet
- Tuba