History of Musical Instruments
admin June 24th, 2008
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The name “brass” historically comes to the material which was used in making these instruments. Copper and silver are widely used in production of brass instruments nowadays. And some instruments with the same method of sound producing were created from timber in the Middle Ages. Brass instruments consist of modern French horn, tuba, cornet, trombone, trumpet and flugelhorn.
The very first peoples have already invented a technique of blowing horns and shells. Diverse variants of instruments appeared when people began to create them of metal. Often such instruments were applied during hostilities, hunting or had some divine purposes.
Hunting bugles, military horns and postal pipes were the ancestors of contemporary brass instruments. Valve gear wasn't created at that time and those musical instruments could play only natural scale. A performer changed the timber of an instrument only with the help of his lips. Fanfares and other military and hunting signals appeared factually at those times. They were based on the natural scale and firmly settled in musical art.
When a technique of metal working and metal produces production became better, it has become possible to make pipes for wind instruments of definite shapes and finishing. Also people invented the notion of natural instruments. It happened due to the progress of brass instruments and the betterment of various natural scales playing. They were the instruments without valve mechanism and could produce only natural scale. Different guilds of piper appeared at that time. At that age 2 guilds of trumpeters existed: martial pipers who sounded military songs and chambers trumpet-players that played in courts.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century was invented valve mechanism. The technique of performing was changed owing to this invention and the ability of scales was heightened. The crown that was added to the main tube transformed the form of musical instruments and lowered the pitch.