Wind instrument of the family of brass instruments, the sound of which
is produced thanks to the vibration of the lips of the interpreter on the
mouth.
As most of the other brass instruments, the trumpet lower(go down) wind
instruments dug in horns of animals. The first trumpets in metal make(do)
their appearance in the high Antiquity: let us quote the Hebraic hasosra,
the buccina of Romans. The Egyptian use a very long trumpet with bronze
semi-cylindrical pipe and money(silver). Towards 1400, this instrument is
folded up in shape of S and, a century later, one rolls up him(it) in lengthened(stretched
out) buckle. Of copper or money(silver), this type of trumpet will remain
in the orchestra until the first years of the XIX-th century. The narrow
cylindrical pipes(tips) give him(her) a glittering tone which is determined
by the length the instrument. Towards 1800, the factors of instruments try
to build a trumpet capable of playing a chromatic complete range: the first
experiences(experiments) in this sense(direction) consist in drilling the
pipe of the trumpet of several side holes controlled by keys. Towards 1820,
the system with pistons, which opens a valve adding a supplementary length
pipe, is finalized(worked out).
The basic tone of the instrument is lowered and gives series of harmonious
different. The modern trumpet has three pistons and a partially cylindrical
pipe finisant in pavilion. The most wide-spread is there if flat up to the
fa higher sharp, three octaves. There are also trumpets in fa and in C.
The trumpet is an instrument to transpositeur: when the musician plays one
doh, this one rings as the fundamental note of the instrument (in the case
of a trumpet in if flat, doh of the partition corresponds in if flat of
any instrument not - transpositeur).