Did the trumpet evolve out of another instrument?

Answer 1

The Trumpet originated as a single tube that had a mouthpiece at one end and a horn at the other. This enables you to get a number of notes by changing the position of your lips in the mouthpiece. These different notes are called harmonics. The actual notes would depend on the length of the tubing. To make it easier to use it was bent into a shape like a bugle rather than a straight horn, although these continued to be used by heralds for royal events and for use on horseback for hunting the bugle was more popular.

As you can only get the harmonics for the particular length of pipe, you were limited to the tunes you could play. This led to the introduction of valves that added in additional bits of pipe. The first valve adds one full tone, the second valve adds half a tone and the third valve adds a tone and a half. This meant that trumpets were able to play the full chromatic scale.

An interesting fact about the harmonics is that the higher you play, the closer together the harmonics become, so as you go higher there are a range of different valve combinations that will give you the same note. This means that some jazz trumpeters can play melodies without using the valves, if they play high enough.

Piccolo Trumpets are made from a very short length of pipe and as a result have a fourth valve to enable it to go a bit lower. Another variation of the valves we have today are the rotary valves commonly found on French Horns, which were used on early trumpets or the Cornett which used a similar mouthpiece to a trumpet but had holes drilled in it, a bit like a woodwind instrument that enabled the harmonics to be altered in the same way as a woodwind instrument. Although not technically a trumpet, is required the same embrochure so is played in a similar way.

Answer 2

One of the first horns that we know about is the bull horn. The bull horn, a simple horn made from the horn of a bull, was first used in hunting, probably to communicate with the other hunters or call wild animals. Then during the Bronze Age, metals were used to decorate these horns, and that led to the horns being made entirely out of metals. These were the first trumpets, and one of the earliest ones found was in the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen, dating back to 1352 bce.When when it became possible to shape these metals, three basic shapes were made. The first shape was the circular horn design. This horn consisted of a funnel mouthpiece, a circular design of the horn, and a cone at the end. The second basic horn was the trumpet design. This design had a cup like mouthpiece, a forward facing design and a bell. The third basic design was the bugle design. This design had a deep cup mouthpiece, and a forward facing bell.Earliest known Mouthpieces- Some of the earliest mouthpieces that we know about were part of the horn, instead of an external attachment. Then, the horns were fitted with mouthpieces made from wood, ivory, or bone. Later the mouthpieces were made from tin, bronze, copper, and even silver and gold. First keyed bugle- In 1810, in Dublin, Ireland, an inventor named Joseph Halliday attached keys to the bugle family. These horns were named the Kent horn or the royal Kent after josephs commander. Then in 1818 the design changed again when two inventors, named Blühmel and Stoezel added valves to the horn. Then later an inventor named Wilhelm Wieprecht invented his design for the valves called "Berlin pistons" a valve design similar to the modern day horn valves. These designs led the way for the design of other horns.The cornet-In France in 1828 an inventor named halary added valves to the "circular posthorn" and called it "cornet ordinaire", but this horn had only two valves. When it finally got three valves, the cornet had to be played in a "splayed finger fashion" because the valves were on the far left side of the cornet instead of in the middle like modern cornets and trumpets. The first time the valve in the middle of the tubes design is shown is in 1855, when an inventor named Antoine Courtois invented it.The modern Trumpet-Even before the three valve design of the cornet, an inventor named Anton Weidinger invented a six valve trumpet, with which he preformed Haydns famous trumpet concerto in eb. That design, and the three valve design of the cornet led to the modern design of the trumpet. The trumpet is now used for music.

Answer 3

The concepts are so similar traced back to their roots, that it would be hard to tell for sure, since the most basic difference is the mouthpiece: Cup shaped in a trumpet, funnel shaped in a horn.

As best as I know music history (my degree was in music) I would offer that the trumpet concept came first - it is easily traced back to the Romans. The French Horn orchestral instrument evolved out of the hunting and post (postman) horns which go back to at least the 1600's if not earlier.

Answer 4

It started its life as one long tube with a small mouth piece and bell then ot became similarto the shape we see now but it had a number of interchangeable tubes that allowed the use to change notes by interchanging the mouth piece and lip configuration finally valve were invented

Answer 5

it evolved from squidwarts Clarinet

Answer 6

no