Tuesday, June 24th, 2008...12:40 pm
The Short Review of Brass Musical Instruments
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Brass instruments have got this name owing to the material which was applied from the ancient centuries. But today copper and silver are also applied in their making. And some musical instruments with the similar way of sound production were made from timber some centuries ago. French horn, tuba, trumpet, cornet, trombone and flugelhorn are included to the modern family of brass instruments.
Ancient peoples knew a technique of playing horns and shells from the very first steps of civilization. Later on people decided to do peculiar musical instruments of metal that were alike bugles. Often such instruments were used during a war, hunting or had some divine purposes.
Today's brass instruments derived from hunting horns, military horns and postal clarions. Such musical instruments might only play natural scale sounds because at that time there weren't valve gear in them. Various timbres of sounds were played only with the help of lips of a performer. At those centuries also fanfares and other sounds of hunting and martial purposes appeared. The natural scale was the foundation of these sounds and people began to use them in musical art.
With the developing of metal working process and the producing instruments of brass it became possible to make tubes of different sizes and finishing. Also people created the notion of natural instruments. It occurred due to the progress of brass instruments and the improvement of different natural scales producing. There were no valve mechanisms, that is why such musical instruments could produce only natural scale. Brotherhoods of trumpeters appeared at those times. They were divided into two types: chamber trumpeters that gave the performances in courts and martial pipers who were the military musicians.
People made valve gear only at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The art of performing was changed owing to this invention and the ability of scales was increased. The point of that gear was in adding the crown in the basic pipe. It changed the form of musical instruments and the pitch was lowered.
Brass instruments are one of the fundamental parts in a symphony orchestra and they are a basis of wind ensembles. There are a large amount of solo books for both valve and natural instruments today. Horns are also used in chamber orchestras. They also may use other brass instruments but it happens rarely. On our page you may find used French horns. Trumpets and trombones are also widely used in jazz.
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