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The borija, a short natural trumpet found in Bosnia-Herzegovina, is made from the spiral shavings of the willow or ash, bound firmly into a conical tube about 50 cm (20 in) long. The obsolete tāšu taure of Latvia was of similar design to the borija , but it was made from birch bark and could be up to 150 cm (5 ft) long.
Trumpets from the Oxus civilization (3rd millennium BC) of Central Asia have decorated swellings in the middle, yet are made out of one sheet of metal, which is considered a technical wonder for its time. [8] The Salpinx was a straight trumpet 62 inches (1,600 mm) long, made of bone or bronze.
It also made Chicago an international center for the study of brass instrument performance." Regular concert-goers knew him not only by his golden sound, but also by sight; as long-time Chicago Tribune critic John von Rhein wrote in his farewell piece, "He was the man whose face would turn radish-red when he was scaling the trumpet stratosphere ...
J. S. Bach, for example, calls for a trumpet in B ♭ in his Cantatas Nos. 5 and 90, trumpets in E ♭ in the first version of his Magnificat and, most famously, the solo trumpet in high F in his Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. In the 18th century various attempts were made to overcome the limitations in the notes available to natural trumpets.
The silver trumpet has a length of 22 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (57.2 cm), the bronze/copper trumpet is about 3 in (7.6 cm) shorter. Their tubes are around 1 ⁄ 2 in (1.3 cm) in diameter at the mouth end, increasing to about 1 in (2.5 cm) before flaring out to 4 in (10.2 cm) at the extremity.
The trumpet repertoire consists of solo literature and orchestral or, more commonly, band parts written for the trumpet. Tracings its origins to 1500 BC, the trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family.
Since this still lacks scientific confirmation, rampant speculation continues about potential extra-terrestrial theories for these "trumpet noises." But don't count NASA as a UFO-doubter just yet.
The first advertisement for the Martin Committee ran in the December 1, 1940 issue of Down Beat. It listed the committee as follows: Fred Berman, popular radio staff star, probably the busiest trumpet player and teacher in Boston. Bunny Berigan, soloist and band leader; M. Thomas Cousins, of the National Symphony Orchestra