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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.
The buisine and the añafil were variations of a type of straight medieval trumpet usually made of metal, also called a herald's trumpet. While arguably the same instrument, the two names represent two separate traditions, in which a Persian-Arabic-Turkic instrument called the Nafir entered European culture in different places and times.
The English word trumpet was first used in the late 14th century. [5] The word came from Old French trompette, which is a diminutive of trompe. [5] The word trump, meaning trumpet, was first used in English in 1300.
[citation needed] Dauverné was amongst the first to realise the potential of the newly invented valve trumpet after the arrival of a specimen, sent by Spontini from Prussia to Paris in 1826, and is credited with persuading several composers to write for it, the first three being Chélard (Macbeth, 1827), Berlioz (Waverley Overture, 1827) and ...
Under Arabic influence, a trumpet corresponding to the Roman tuba was revived in Europe, which first appeared around 1100 in the Old French Song of Roland under the name buisine. [53] In the Song of Roland , only the nafīr straight trumpet type is referred to as buisine , while the Franks themselves used trumpets shaped as animal horns ( corn ...
The clavichord is an example of a period instrument.. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written.
See horn and wooden trumpet below. The nafir was a Muslim instrument, adapted by Europeans and renamed the anafil in Spain [54] and the buisine in France. [55] The buisine (first mention about 1100 A.D.) was a long, slightly curved horn, used in battle for signaling. [55] It was replaced by the nafir, the name transferred to the new instrument ...
The straight sheet-metal tubular-trumpet persisted in the Middle East and Central Asia as the nafir and karnay, and during the Reconquista and Crusades, Europeans began to build them again, having seen these instruments in their wars. [9] [10] The first made were the añafil in Spain and buisine in France and elsewhere.