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Ancient peoples applied brass to produce this type of instruments and that's why the notion “brass” came and is still applied nowadays. But today copper and silver are also used in their making. But centuries ago people who didn't know how to produce it from metal used timber for the instruments of the same way of sound producing. Brass instruments consist of modern French horn, tuba, cornet, trombone, trumpet and flugelhorn.

A proficiency of blowing a horn or a shell was invented in the ancient centuries. Later on musical instruments that were alike bugles were produced when people began to do instruments of metal. Often such musical instruments were applied during hostilities, hunting or had some divine destinations.

Hunting bugles, military bugles and post pipes were the predecessors of contemporary brass instruments. Those instruments didn't have any gear and gave only several sounds of natural scale. Various timbres of sounds were played only with the help of lips of a performer. All military and hunting fanfares and signals appeared at those times. The natural scale was the basis of these sounds and people began to use them in musical practice.

With the increasing of metal working process and the production musical instruments of metal it became possible to create pipes of various dimensions and finishing. Also people created the notion of natural instruments. It happened due to the progress of brass instruments and the improvement of various natural scales playing. Natural scale was the foundation scale of those instruments because at those centuries people didn't know valve mechanism yet. Different brotherhoods of trumpeters gathered at that time. There were 2 types of them: marching pipers and chamber trumpet-players that played difficult parts in hard high register.

At the beginning of the XIX century was invented valve gear. The art of performing was changed due to this novelty and the possibility of scales was increased. The principle of that gear was in including the crown in the main pipe. It transformed the shape of musical instruments and the pitch was lowered.

Nowadays brass instruments are added to one of the fundamental sections of instruments in symphony orchestras. In wind orchestras they are the main section of it. Today you can find a plenty of solo books for natural and valve brass instruments. Chamber orchestras sometimes apply French horns and other types of brass instruments but these are rear occurrences. We propose you used French horns. Trumpets and trombones are often the basic jazz musical instruments.

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