The Overview of Brass Instruments
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The term “brass” historically comes to the material which was used in making these musical instruments. Copper and silver are broadly applied in making of these instruments nowadays. Centuries ago people made the same musical instruments applying basically wood because a lot of people couldn't produce it of brass. Brass instruments consist of modern French horn, tuba, cornet, trombone, trumpet and flugelhorn.
An art of blowing a horn or a shell was known in the ancient times. Later instruments that were alike horns were produced when people started the production of instruments of metal. Those musical instruments had various purposes. Usually they were used in military, hunting and religious purposes.
Today's brass instruments came from hunting bugles, martial bugles and postal pipes. Such musical instruments could only play natural scale sounds because at those times there weren't valve mechanisms in them. Various timbres of sounds were produced only with the help of lips of a player. All martial and hunting fanfares and signals appeared at those times. The natural scale was the foundation of these sounds and people began to apply them in musical art.
With the developing of metal working process and the production musical instruments of brass it became feasible to create tubes of different sizes and finishing. During the developing of brass instruments and the betterment of different natural scale sound producing the notion of natural musical instruments appeared. There were no valve mechanisms, that is why such instruments could perform only natural scale. It was the time when brotherhoods of trumpeters began to appear. They were separated into 2 kinds: chamber trumpeters that gave the performances in courts and martial pipers who were the military players.
Nineteenth century became the age when valve mechanism was invented. The technique of performing was changed owing to this invention and the ability of scales was heightened. The point of that mechanism was in adding the crown in the main tube. It transformed the shape of instruments and the pitch was lowered.
In symphony orchestras brass instruments are in the basic parts and in wind ensembles they are the basic ones. Nowadays you may look for a lot of solo literature for natural and valve brass instruments. Chamber ensembles sometimes apply French horns and other types of brass instruments but these are rear occurrences. On our internet page you will see used French horn. Trumpets and trombones are also broadly used in jazz music.
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