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  2. Renold Schilke - Wikipedia

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    Renold Schilke was born June 30, 1910, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He began playing cornet at age 8. Before his teens, he was initiated into the life of a professional musician playing for the Frank Holton Company and also learning basics of instrument manufacture, as had cornet virtuoso and instrument manufacturer Ernst Couturier before him.

  3. Leadpipe - Wikipedia

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    Most leadpipes are permanently fixed in the instrument, though aftermarket changes, usually carried out by a repairer, are quite common. [1] Some instruments have a detachable leadpipe to allow changing key; to permit the player to easily select different playing and tonal characteristics; [2] or simply to act as the instrument's main tuning slide where the shape, or other design issues, make ...

  4. Mouthpiece (brass) - Wikipedia

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    Trumpet mouthpiece from the side. The mouthpiece on brass instruments is the part of the instrument placed on the player's lips. The mouthpiece is a circular opening that is enclosed by a rim and that leads to the instrument via a semi-spherical or conical cavity called the cup.

  5. Pitch of brass instruments - Wikipedia

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    High brass - from the top left: Baroque trumpet in D, modern trumpets in B ♭ and D (same pitch D as Baroque), piccolo trumpet in high B ♭, Flugelhorn in B ♭; right: cornet in B ♭.

  6. Jerome Callet - Wikipedia

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    With this rich background and his talent as an accomplished machinist, Mr. Callet was able to release his first line of trumpet mouthpieces in 1973, and his first trumpet under his own brand name in 1984. [2] [3] In 1973, he also developed a line of mouthpieces to complement his embouchure theories. In the meantime, he taught embouchure ...

  7. Trumpet repertoire - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Flugelhorn - Wikipedia

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    The flugelhorn's mouthpiece is more deeply conical than either trumpet or cornet mouthpieces, but not as conical as a French horn mouthpiece. Some modern flugelhorns feature a fourth valve that lowers the pitch by a perfect fourth (similar to the fourth valve on some euphoniums , tubas , and piccolo trumpets , or the trigger on trombones ).

  9. Talk:Piccolo trumpet - Wikipedia

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    Of course, players with great chops can go higher, aided by smaller, shallower mouthpieces, and indeed this is often heard in jazz - very high (colloq. "screaming") trumpet parts, played by jazz players, even on standard (4¾′) B♭ trumpets. Arturo Sandoval for instance often squeals away in the stratosphere, up to and above B♭₆. [2]