Buccina

The buccina is a member of the brass (Hornbostel–Sachs 423.1). Learn how it makes its sound and explore related instruments.

How the buccina makes its sound

In the Hornbostel–Sachs system, which classifies instruments by how they produce sound, the buccina belongs to the brass (lip-vibrated aerophones): the player's buzzing lips set the air column vibrating – trumpets, horns, trombones, tubas and the didgeridoo.

More broadly it is one of the aerophones (wind instruments), where sound comes from vibrating air.

Its timbre – the colour that lets you tell it apart from other instruments playing the same note – comes from the mix of overtones its body and resonator emphasise.

From Wikipedia

A buccina (Latin: buccina) or bucina (Latin: būcina; Ancient Greek: βυκάνη), anglicized buccin or bucine, is a brass instrument that was used in the ancient Roman army, similar to the cornu. An aeneator who blew a buccina was called a "buccinator" or "bucinator" (Latin: buccinātor, būcinātor).