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Trumpet

The highest member of the brass family of instruments, the trumpet's distinctive sound always stands above the rest. Questions about the trumpet, trumpet players, and trumpet music belong here.

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In Which musical ensembles would you find in a trumpet?

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The euphonium, which is a kind of "tenor-sized tuba," can be found in concert bands often providing a soloistic tenor voice.

Can a trumpet be tuned?

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It depends on what you mean. If you mean, is the trumpet a transposing instrument, yes, if you're talking about anything other than a C trumpet, which is in concert pitch. Trumpets in all other keys are not concert pitch. For instance, when playing on a B-flat trumpet, the note that you learn as a D is actually a concert pitch of C.

If you are asking do trumpet players have to transpose music, the answer is, yes, generally speaking, but it depends what music you are playing. For instance, if you are playing on a B-flat trumpet and playing music written for the B-flat trumpet, you play the music as is. If you are playing on a B-flat trumpet but playing music written for C trumpet, you have to play the music up a step.

How do trumpets make music and sound?

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The initial sound is that created by the lips vibrating in teh mouthpiece. The vibrating air is then sent around using lno valves and a combination of valves variouys tibes to change the frequency

What is the value of a Getzen trumpet?

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As with most major manufacturers, new Getzen trumpets retail anywhere from a few hundred dollars to well over a thousand. The value of a used trumpet will depend on many things, including the trumpet model, its age, and general condition.

When and who invented the trumpet?

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No one knows for certain as it is so old.

The oldest trumpets date back to 1500 B.C.E. and earlier. The bronze and silver trumpets from Tutankhamun's grave in Egypt, bronze lurs from Scandinavia, and metal trumpets from China date back to this period.[

Change notes on trumpet?

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these are the first twelve measures

♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ rest, half rest ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ rest, half rest ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪

d d fd c d d d fd c d g g fd f g

♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ rest, rest ♫ ♪ ♪ ♪ rest ♪ ♪ ♪ rest ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ rest, half rest, d d fd c d fg a a a g g g d d fd c d

What is the value of a Blessing Trumpet 59765?

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There's no way to tell you without seeing it in person... The value of a trumpet doesn't just depend on what brand it is. It depends on age, condition, playability, among other things. If you contact a reputable instrument repair shop in your area, they can likely either tell you how much it would be worth, or give you a rough estimate.

What is the history of the trumpet?

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The trumpet has probably been in existence since the dawn of man. I

t is likely that prehistoric man may have fashioned animal horns into primitive trumpets to communicate over distance or frighten enemies.

The bible celebrates the trumpet in the story of the walls of Jericho, where the sound of the trumpets in Joshua's army were supposed to have brought down the walls.

The Roman empire used natural Trumpets (no valves, 400bc-700ad) for celebrations and war manoeuvre's.

The Serpent was used in the Baroque (16thC) period and was a bass horn instrument much like a tuba is used today. But during this period there were many different types of natural trumpets. (A natural trumpet is a straight or coiled tube with a mouthpiece and a bell and no valves).

The modern piston (Jazz) trumpet which we know today, wasn't really formalised in design until the late 19th century.

Now the trumpet family contains the following instrument types;

Post horn (Specialist use)

Alpine Horn (Specialist use Bavarian?)

Jazz Trumpet (various keys, general use)

Rotary Trumpet (Orchesteral use)

FlugalHorn (Jazz Brass band and orchesteral use)

Cornet (General use)

How do you find an old trumpet serial number?

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The brand name is usually printed on the bell of each trumpet.

If you are trying to identify the key of your trumpet, most trumpets that students start with are in Bb. It is much harder (and a little more expensive) to get a C, D, Eb or Piccolo trumpet, etc. (anything other than Bb)

If you are a student starting out or someone who inherited the trumpet from someone else, there's about a 80-90% chance it's a Bb trumpet. If you are still curious, I'm sure someone who works at a local band instrument sales/repair shop would have no problem helping you identify what you have.

What is the smallest trumpet?

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Probably some type of piccolo pocket trumpet.

What is the value of an Eastman ETR 520 brass trumpet?

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There's no way to tell you how much your trumpet is worth without seeing it in person... The value of a trumpet doesn't just depend on what brand it is. It depends on age, condition, playability, among other things. If you contact a reputable instrument repair shop in your area, they can likely either tell you how much it would be worth, or give you a rough estimate.

What is a cross between a trumpet and a trombone called?

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Marching Trombone> It looks like a large trumpet. It allows for easier marching , not having to use the slide.

What kind of valves does a trumpet use?

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Look at your trumpet. Notice how there's tubing right by the piston/rotary valves. When you press a valve down it sends the air through a different, longer pipe, making the note lower. If you release a valve, the valve closes the longer tube and opens the shorter tube, creating a higher sound.

Is the trumpet known as god's instrument?

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No. The first known instruments are flutes made of bone.

Who is the angel in blowing trumpet?

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It's Israfil

Can you play the trumpet with a permanent retainer?

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I play the alto sax, and around 18 months ago got braces. At first i found it very hard to play but after a few weeks i was back to the same level as before i got braces. Last week i got my braces off and now have retainers top and bottom, and playing with them is again very difficult but possible! I assume it will take another week or two to become familiar with them enough to play well again, but i assure you - it can be done! I play the alto sax, and around 18 months ago got braces. At first i found it very hard to play but after a few weeks i was back to the same level as before i got braces. Last week i got my braces off and now have retainers top and bottom, and playing with them is again very difficult but possible! I assume it will take another week or two to become familiar with them enough to play well again, but i assure you - it can be done!

Why does a trumpet need valve oil?

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Trumpets need valve oil to make the valves easier to push down, and when they push down correctly, it makes the sound a lot better. It also needs the oil so that the valves don't get stuck while you're playing!😝😝 That's happened to me before!

How does a trumpet make it's noise?

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When you play a trumpet, you buzz your lips. It creates a vibration that goes through the trumpet, and through the valves that you have pressed down (if you have pressed down any) and it comes out of the bell.

How many valve are on top of a trumpet?

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A standard trumpet(not a piccolo)usually has three valves. However, the higher-pitched piccolo trumpet has four.

What are the seven trumpets in the book of revelation?

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In the Old Testament, trumpets were a means of rapid communication used for two basic purposes: one, was to call the people to assemble for the commanded sabbaths... and the other was an alert to assemble for war. The type of tune the trumpets blared told the people which one.

In the New Testament, seven prophetic trumpets compose the "seventh seal" of the scroll that's sealed with seven seals, that hide the understanding of end time events to unfold on earth that lead to Jesus' return to earth with His Kingdom.

The first six seals are stripped away by Jesus in the sixth chapter... which leaves the remaining 16 chapters of Revelation to explain the "seventh seal," which represents the Day of the Lord (when Jesus returns).

Jesus Christ is prophesied to return "at the LAST TRUMP" (I Cor.15:52 & I Thess.4:16). The seven trumpets of Revelation's seventh seal are the first of "two" countdowns of the Day of the Lord.

The two countdowns are two sets of "PLAGUES OF GOD."

The first countdown is the seven trumpets. These are called down by the Two Witnesses who will witness and testify to God's Truth in Jerusalem during the 3 1/2 year Great Tribulation when the Beast and False Prophet rule the earth.

"... and the holy city shall they (Gentiles) tread under foot forty and two months (3 1/2 years). And I will give power unto My Two Witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days (the same 3 1/2 years), clothed in sackcloth... these have the power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have the power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will." (Rev.11:2-6)

The seven trumpets are first mentioned in Revelation 8.

"...when He had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets." (Rev.8:1-2)

Trumpets are played by "blowing wind" through them. It is evident, therefore, that the seven "trumpet plagues" of God will be "wind-borne." We can know that they are plagues by the wording in chapter nine, when the first four trumpets are "blown" or "sounded."

"...and the rest of the men which were not killed by these PLAGUES yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils (demons), and idols of gold, and silver...." (verse 20).

These trumpet plagues of God are leveled on the Beast and the False Prophet during the Great Tribulation, which compares to Moses and Aaron going before Pharaoh, daily, demanding the release of God's people.

At the end of the Two Witnesses' allotted time of witness and testimony... they are killed. And 3 1/2 days later they rise from the dead and ascend into the clouds to meet Christ in the air with the rest of the "dead in Christ"... as it is then that the "seventh and LAST TRUMP is sounded":

"...the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever." (Rev.11:15)

It's at this time with the sounding of the seventh trumpet that Jesus returns with clouds to gather His elect unto Himself in the air, which is within the earth's breathable atmosphere, where He will instantaneously "change" them into immortal Sons of God.

And while they hover in the clouds above the earth along with Jesus' army of angels, preparing to complete their descent upon the earth... the last seven VIAL plagues of "God's WRATH" will be POURED OUT on the earth.

"...I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth..." (Rev.16:1).

This is a kind of "softening up" of the stubborn nations on the earth before Christ descends upon them, making war. And it's at this time that Satan "gathers all the nations to Armageddon" to fight against the returning Christ, which the nations may well see as an "alien invasion."

"they are the spirits of devils (demons), working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that Great Day of God Almighty... and he (should be "they," the demon spirits) gathered them into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." (Rev.16:14)

And finally... after reading through the various inset chapters of Revelation... chapter 19 relates the summary vision of Christ's return, battling the Beast and False Prophet at Armageddon and the casting of the Beast and False Prophet into the Lake of Fire.

This is followed by chapter 20 - the removal of Satan from influencing the nations for a thousand years, the millennial rule of God's Kingdom... and Judgment Day.

Chapter 21 prophesys of the re-making of the earth by God the Father's new immortal Family... and His descent out of heaven with the Holy City New Jerusalem onto the pristine new sinless earth, which will be the new headquarters of His universal Government.

Then will be God's plan of man's salvation and the restoration of His Kingdom to the earth complete.

"...BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW... It is done. I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end... He that overcometh shall inherit all things (the universe); and I will be his God, and HE SHALL BE MY SON." (Rev.21:5-7)

The seven trumpets of Revelation are the "first phase" of God's two sets of plagues of the Day of the Lord and Jesus' return to earth with salvation and the Kingdom of God.

What valve combinations on a trumpet would be the same key as the bugle?

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If the bugle is in the normal key of B-flat, then the notes played by the bugle correspond to the open notes of the trumpet - no valves pressed down at all. If the bugle is in a different key than the trumpet, you will need to transpose the bugle notes into the key of the trumpet to find which notes to play on the trumpet. After you have done the transposition, it should be the case that the same valve combination can be used for all the bugle notes in that key.

Do trumpets blare?

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Either solo or any type of band or any type of orchestra

Is a hawk trumpet a good trumpet?

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I have never heard about them, why dont you stick to the common brands? like Bach, Schilke, Yamaha, Benge, B&S or lawler...

It sounds like the question is coming from someone that may have to consider the bottom line expense. A new trumpet is a very steep investment if it is a brand as suggested above. To be brief, unless you purchase a used, even vintage trumpet...getting what you pay for (if its 'cheaper than most'...such as the Hawk trumpet, will get you a 'cheap' horn that looks good to start and literally falls apart and or is out of tune.......a loss of your investment. Most informed trumpet players today will let you know that your best bets are the used Holton 600 line.(TR-602, 603,612 etc. P 602 and more. They are well engineered, well made and are excellent playing horns which can take you from beginner to an intermediate level. A site such as eBay offers them in a wide range of prices, but truth be told, there are so many on the market that you can ignore all prices above $150 and get one in excellent mechanical and cosmetic condition.

There are many other valid choices..i.e. the trumpet that amateurs to pros state as being being one of the finest horns built....the Olds Ambassador. Although the last model was made in 1979, there are many in very good to excellent condition from $100 to $200 dollars. I am a collector of horns and not Olds specifically, but I do have 5 of them if thats any indication of my belief in the playability and overall excellence.

What difference between a 3c and 7c trumpet mouthpiece as far as range?

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I just took a look at mouthpiece comparison chart, and according to the Bach numbering system, a 7c is listed as medium deep with a 16.20 mm cup diameter and the 3c is medium with a 16.30 mm cup diameter.