Many Types of Brass

I recently went to the Midland Center for the Arts, and listened to the Midland Concert band play eight songs each one different from the other. The songs were; The Sinfonians by Clifton Williams, Sequoia by Homer C LaGassey, Variations on a Korean Folk Song by John B Chance, Andrea Chenir  by Umberto Giordano, Trauersinfonie by Richard Wagner, Satiric Dances by Norman D Joio, The Seventies by Paul Jennings and Paul Lavender, and The Pathfinder of Panama by John Philip Sousa. My personal favorite was Variations on a Korean Folk Song, because when I was in high school I played that song and had trouble playing all the notes because the notes are moving so fast that I could hardly keep up.

But what surprised me the most about the concert was in the beginning before any of the planned songs were played, about twenty trumpet players walked out on to the stage and started to play. But these were not any ordinary trumpets, these had elongated bells. The bells stretched out so far that each trumpet had a banner hainging from it and each banner was about one foot wide and three feet long. But not only was the bell longer the trumpet was louder, they were so loud that it only took twenty of them to fill the auditorium with sound.

Almost every Brass instrument has a duplicate that's either different looking or different sounding. This gives a wider range of instruments to chose from, like the cornet,it is the same as the trumpet but it looks different and has more mellow sound, but if you were blindfolded while listening to them, you would not be able to tell the difference between the two.
 (The YouTube Video shows many odd types of brass and most of them are trumpets.)