Saxophone vs. Trumpet

Saxophonenoun

(musical instruments) A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.

Saxophonenoun

A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.

Saxophonenoun

a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore

Saxophonenoun

a member of a family of metal wind instruments with a reed like that of a clarinet, used especially in jazz and dance music.

Saxophone

The saxophone is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to produce a sound wave inside the instrument's body.

Trumpetnoun

(musical instrument) A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.

Trumpetnoun

In an orchestra or other musical group, a musician that plays the trumpet.

Trumpetnoun

The cry of an elephant.

Trumpetnoun

(figurative) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.

Trumpetnoun

A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

Trumpetnoun

A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.

Trumpetverb

(intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified

Trumpetverb

(intransitive) To play the trumpet.

Trumpetverb

(intransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.

Trumpetverb

(transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically

Trumpetnoun

A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.

Trumpetnoun

A trumpeter.

Trumpetnoun

One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.

Trumpetnoun

A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

Trumpetverb

To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.

Trumpetverb

To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.

Trumpetnoun

a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

Trumpetverb

proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet;

Trumpetverb

play or blow on the trumpet

Trumpetverb

utter in trumpet-like sounds;

Trumpet

The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet with the highest register in the brass family, to the bass trumpet, which is pitched one octave below the standard B♭ or C Trumpet.