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+ Difficulty Rating + About the Trumpet + Equipment Cost + Accessories + Genres played on the Trumpet + Famous players + Famous songs & albums + History + Type of Trumpet + Related instruments + Audio Samples Difficulty Rating: 7/10

About the Trumpet:

The trumpet is a musical instrument in the brass family. Of all brass instruments, the trumpet is highest in register, above the French horn, trombone, baritone, euphonium, and tuba. A musician who plays the trumpet is called a trumpet player or trumpeter. The most common trumpet by far is a transposing instrument pitched in B flat - the note read as middle C sounds as the B flat 2 semitones below - but there are many other trumpets in this family of instruments.

Equipment costs:

Low end Trumpet: £300
High end Trumpet: £1.600

Accessories:

Mouthpieces
Metronomes
Tuners
Mutes
Cases
Music Stands

Genres played on the Trumpet:

Classical
Jazz
Rock
Blues
Pop
Ska
Polka
Funk

Famous players:

Maurice André
Louis Armstrong
Miles Davis
Dizzy Gillespie
Jon Faddis
Maynard Ferguson
Adolph "Bud" Herseth
Harry James
Charles Schlueter
Malcolm McNab
Wynton Marsalis
Allen Vizzutti
Sergei Nakariakov
Freddie Hubbard
Lee Morgan
Chet Baker
James Morrison
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Famous songs & albums:

Porgy and Bess with Louis Armstrong
Joy Spring with Clifford Brown
Bebop and the Birth of the Cool with Miles Davis

History:

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.[2] Trumpets from the Oxus civilization (3rd millennium B.C.E.) of Central Asia have decorated swellings in the middle, yet are made out of one sheet of metal, which is considered a technical wonder.

The earliest trumpets were signaling instruments used for military or religious purposes, rather than music in the modern sense. "The sound of these instruments was described as terrible and was compared to the braying of an ass." The modern bugle continues the signaling tradition, with different tunes corresponding to different instructions, but the advent of radio made its use more ceremonial.