The Story of Brass Musical Instruments
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The name “brass” historically comes to the stuff which was applied in making these musical instruments. Nowadays people also get to apply copper and silver in the production of brass musical instruments. But centuries ago people who didn't know the technology of metal working applied timber for the musical instruments of the similar way of sound production. Contemporary brass instruments contain French horn, tuba, cornet, trombone, trumpet and flugelhorn.
Ancient peoples knew a technique of blowing horns and shells from the first steps of civilization. Later on people learned to do special musical instruments of metal that were alike horns. Those instruments were intended for martial, hunting and religious goals.
Nowadays' brass instruments derived from hunting bugles, military horns and postal clarions. Valve gear wasn't created at that time and those musical instruments could produce only natural scale. Timbres of sounds were changed with the assistance of the lips of a player. All military and hunting fanfares and signals appeared at those times. They were founded on the natural scale and solidly settled in musical art.
When a technique of metal working and metal products producing became better, it has become feasible to create pipes for wind instruments of definite sizes and finishing. During the progress of brass instruments and the improvement of different natural scale sound producing the notion of natural instruments appeared. Natural scale was the foundation scale of those instruments because at those centuries people didn't invent valve mechanism yet. It was the time when guilds of trumpeters began to appear. They were separated into 2 kinds: court trumpet-players that gave the performances in castles and marching pipers who were the military players.
People created valve gear only at the beginning of the XIX century. It definitely transformed the art of playing and increased the possibility of brass instruments. An additional crown was included in the main pipe, it heightened the dimension of a musical instrument and lowered its pitch.
Today brass instruments are added to one of the fundamental parts of instruments in symphony orchestras. In wind ensembles they are the main part of it. Different solo literature is offered today worldwide for valve and natural brass instruments. French horns are also used in chamber orchestras. They also can use other brass instruments but it happens rarely. On our internet page you can see used French horns. Trumpets and trombones are also widely applied in jazz music.
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