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Summary: From war sounds to spiritual practice, the history of the trumpet is explained by our expert trumpet player and teacher in this free trumpet video music lesson.

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J.D. Keating J.D. Keating is a musician, artist and educator from Western Massachusetts. For two decades he has lent his varied talents to innumerable projects in the musi... read more

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History of the Trumpet

Hi. We're here talking about brass. What I have in my hand here is a modern style trumpet with three valves. Trumpets originally when they were used, were made for signaling warfare and also in spiritual ceremonies. The original trumpets that have been discovered were made of wood, bamboo, cane, basically anything with a tube. All brass instruments and wind instruments are made of are known as "airophones" and that just basically means that air travels through this end through the mouthpiece, around the tubing that is bent and out the bell of the instrument and recreates sound by pushing air from our mouth and body into the instrument.

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