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The dung is the long monastic trumpet of Tibet; it is similar to, and probably derives from, straight trumpets depicted in 13th-century Arabic and Persian manuscripts. The dung is a straight, end-blown trumpet with a conical bore; it is made of copper or brass and has a separate mouthpiece.
Microtones: Composers such as Scelsi and Stockhausen have made wide use of the trumpet's ability to play microtonally. Some instruments feature a fourth valve that provides a quarter-tone step between each note. The jazz musician Ibrahim Maalouf uses such a trumpet, invented by his father to make it possible to play Arab maqams.
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.
In 2010, under the ownership of Verne Q. Powell Flutes Inc., E. K. Blessing has completely redesigned its student trumpets (BTR-1266, BTR-1277), created a new line of intermediate trumpets (BTR-1460) and introduced the first truly professional trumpet made by E. K. Blessing since the 1960s (BTR-1580).
Page from the Codex canadensis, by Louis Nicolas, circa 1675 to 1682, showing a native North-American chief using a megaphone made of bark. Before it became a megaphone, the bull horn or cow horn or steer horn was a signaling device or bugle used from antiquity. [1] [2] The initial inventor of the speaking trumpet is a subject of historical ...
The 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. [3] [6] The first made were the añafil in Spain and buisine in France and elsewhere.
Carnyx from the Tintignac group Three carnyx players depicted on plate E of the Gundestrup cauldron. The ancient carnyx was a wind instrument used by the Celts during the Iron Age, between c. 200 BCE and c. 200 CE.
The slide trumpet is an early type of trumpet fitted with a movable section of telescopic tubing, similar to the slide of a trombone. Eventually, the slide trumpet evolved into the sackbut , which evolved into the modern-day trombone.