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Musical instruments. The Firebird is a type of trumpet with the standard three valves and the addition of a trombone -style slide. It was invented by Maynard Ferguson and Larry Ramirez and remains an exceptionally rare, specialist instrument. They were occasionally produced by Holton.
Ferguson designed the Firebird and the Superbone. [6] Trumpeter Rajesh Mehta bought this trumpet while living in Amsterdam and played the Firebird from 1998 until 2011 when he had American trumpet maker George Schlub create the Orka-M Naga Phoenix trumpet for him.
ISBN. 0-399-16615-7. Firebird is a children's picture book written by Misty Copeland and illustrated by Christopher Myers. It was first published on September 4, 2014. [1] This debut book by Copeland aims to inspire young dancers, especially those from underrepresented communities in ballet. The narrative of Firebird is a poetic dialogue ...
Rachel Isadora (born 1953) is an American illustrator, children's book author, specializing in picture books, and painter. She is most famous for the book Ben's Trumpet, runner-up for the 1980 Caldecott Medal, or Caldecott Honor Book, and winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book honor. Ben's Trumpet was adapted to video and also translated into a ...
The Firebird, ballet for which Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) composed the music. Firebird (band), late 1990s/2000s/2010s blues-based power trio. The Firebirds, a rock and roll band from Bristol, England. The Firebird Band, an indie rock band hailing from Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Firebirds (album), a 1968 jazz album by Prince Lasha and Sonny Simmons.
A typical role of the Firebird in fairy tales is as an object of a difficult quest. The quest is usually initiated by finding a lost tail feather, at which point the hero sets out to find and capture the live bird, sometimes of his own accord, but usually on the bidding of a father or king. The Firebird is a marvel, highly coveted, but the hero ...
Sheet music. Arban's Complete Conservatory Method for Trumpet is a method book for students of trumpet, cornet, and other brass instruments. The original edition, Grande méthode complète de cornet à pistons et de saxhorn), was written and composed by Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889) and published in Paris by Léon Escudier in 1864. [ 1 ]
The natural trumpet was probably first used as a military instrument in Ancient Egypt. The trumpets depicted by the artists of the Eighteenth Dynasty were short straight instruments made of wood, bronze, copper or silver. According to the Classical writers, the Egyptian trumpet sounded like the braying of an ass.