Brass instruments are popular specifically in jazz and marching bands work because of the vibration of air against the inside of a brass tube. Another term for brass instruments is labrosones which means lip vibrating instruments. One of the most popular of the brass instruments is the trumpet. Trumpets, though now crafted out of metal, were originally made out of shell. They were not constructed in that medium, but rather whole shells were utilized (conch shells in particular) to create a horn sound. These original trumpets were used as ancient ritual musical in many ancient cultures. Like the modern trumpet, the sound was coaxed from the shell with the vibration of the players lips against the conical side of the shell or mouthpiece. Trumpets created out of can date back to as early as ancient Egypt and some specimens from this time still exist. It wasnt until the 1800s that the trumpet began to take on the look and sound that his has today. During that time, they began to add valves to the trumpet to give it the musical range we are familiar with. Earlier horns had no such range and could only play different pitches through the manipulation of the players lips.
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