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Heinrich David Stölzel (7 September 1777 – 16 February 1844) was a German horn player who developed some of the first valves for brass instruments.He developed the first valve for a brass musical instrument, the Stölzel valve, in 1818, and went on to develop various other designs, some jointly with other inventor musicians.
The Martinshorn (also known as the Martin's trumpet and Schalmei) is a German free reed aerophone created in 1880 by Max Bernhardt Martin, who was also the main manufacturer of the instruments. [1] The Martinshorn contains several reeds, each of which having its own horn. [2] The instrument was created in imitation of the saxhorn. [3]
In the 18th century the German music theorist Johann Ernst Altenburg compared these two styles of playing to the two registers of trumpet playing prevalent in the Late Baroque: the low principale and the high clarino. [4] The military use of the natural trumpet is mentioned in many passages of the Bible (e.g. Jeremiah 4:19, Zephaniah 1:16, Amos ...
Jazz and commercial music call for a wider range of mutes than most classical music [26] and many mutes were invented for jazz orchestrators. [ 29 ] Mutes can be made of many materials, including fiberglass, plastic, cardboard, metal, and "stone lining", a trade name of the Humes & Berg company. [ 30 ]
The sound of the flugelhorn has been described as halfway between a trumpet and a French horn, whereas the cornet's sound is halfway between a trumpet and a flugelhorn. [6] The flugelhorn is as agile as the cornet but more difficult to control in the high register (from approximately written G 5 ), where in general it locks onto notes less easily.
Wieprecht was born at Aschersleben, where he was the oldest son to town musician, Friedrich Jacob Wieprecht.His father was a cavalryman and trumpet player in the Quitzow Carbine Regiment. [2] According to his autobiography, from a young age Wieprecht learned from his father to play on nearly all wind instruments.
Johann Ernst Altenburg (15 June 1734 – 14 May 1801) was a German composer, organist and trumpeter. He is not to be confused with a similarly named composer in the 1620s who contributed to the collection Angst der Hellen und Friede der Seelen.
In 1808 he started playing trumpet and horn and began calling himself a Berghautboist, an old German term for a mine musician, playing in a band in Waldenburg, Silesia. [ 2 ] Around 1813, Blühmel designed a valve system for brass instruments , apparently independently of his fellow horn player Heinrich Stölzel who created a similar system at ...