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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.
[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 ...
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 ...