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By Scarlett Hatton
Fun Facts
The earliest trumpets were made out of conk shells and wood.
The trumpet may only have valves but it can play forty five distinct notes by manipulating those valves.
The trumpet may seem like a small instrument compared to a trombone but if all the tubing were straightened it would be approximately 6 1/2 feet long, which is taller than the average human being.
Parts of a Trumpet
In 1815 Heinrich Stölzel from Germany invented a system of valves for the trumpet which allowed the trumpet to play all notes like other instruments of the orchestra. A newspaper wrote “What a new realm of beautiful effects this has opened up to composers!”
The Trumpet was first used
to signal in China
in 2000 BC
The trumpet was long and
had no valves.
Typically the trumpet was
used for religious and military
purposes.
In the 1700’s the trumpet was commonly used in orchestras. Because it was a simple tube, the trumpet was limited in the notes that it could play.
Short pieces of tubing called Crooks were used to lengthen or shorten the tubing so that the trumpet could play more notes but it was still limited in the music that it could play.
The trumpet was
first used for
musical purposes
in the 1300’s where
the tube was folded.
A Brief History
of the
Trumpet
Trumpets
Today