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The name “brass” historically comes to the stuff which was applied in making these musical instruments. Nowadays people also get to use copper and silver in the producing of these musical instruments. In the Middle Ages people made the same musical instruments using basically wood because a lot of people couldn't produce it of metal. French horn, tuba, trumpet, cornet, trombone and flugelhorn are included to the contemporary family of brass instruments.

A proficiency of blowing a horn or a shell was invented in the ancient times. Later on people decided to do peculiar musical instruments of metal that were alike horns. Usually such instruments were used during hostilities, hunting or had some religious destinations.

The predecessors of contemporary brass instruments were hunting horns, military horns and postal clarions. Valve mechanism wasn't invented at that time and those musical instruments could play only natural scale. Different timbres of sounds were produced only with the help of lips of a player. Fanfares and other military and hunting sounds appeared factually at that time. People began to apply these sounds in musical practice because of their natural scale.

With the developing of metal working process and the producing instruments of metal it became feasible to create pipes of different dimensions and finishing. During the progress of brass instruments and the improvement of diverse natural scale sound playing the term of natural instruments appeared. There were no valve instruments, that is why such instruments could produce only natural scale. Guilds of trumpeters appeared at those centuries. At that age two guilds of trumpeters existed: martial pipers who played martial songs and chambers trumpeters that played in castles.

Nineteenth century became the century when valve mechanism was invented. This invention increased the ability of scales and the technique of performance also changed. An extra crown was included in the basic pipe, it increased the size of an instrument and lowered its pitch.

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