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The Trumpet
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The Trumpet
History & development, materials, types, uses, valves.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages) |
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1996
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"More than any other musical instrument, the trumpet has gone through centuries of evolution in what it is made of, its design, its tonal range and its uses. The first trumpet, several thousand years B.C., is believed to have been a tree branch without a mouthpiece or bell flare, used solely as a megaphone, sounded at religious and magical rites. Related trumpets are the Australian didjeridu and the African transverse trumpet, the latter made from an antelope horn or elephant tusk. The trumpets of the Israelites, made of hammered silver, were used exclusively by priests, as in the famous tumbling of the Walls of Jericho in the book of Exodus. The oldest surviving mention of a trumpet is in the Epic of Gilgamesh, from about 2000 B.C.The oldest existing trumpets, both silver, from 1353 B.C., were discovered in the tomb of King Tutankhamen in Egypt. They..."
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