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Notes
1) The natural trumpet high register has some out of tune notes (in
black) considered at equal temperament:
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The earliest trumpet with holes that still exist is an orchestral trumpet
made by Shaw in 1787 now in London museum. Each of the four holes
crooks of the trumpet (black notes open):
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Some Posthorns of the 19th century have one hole to transpose a
fourth higher. This system was adapted to baroque trumpet copies in
as secure the 16th (black notes open):
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German trumpeter Walter Holy, with the help of the acousticians
Helmut Finke and Otto Steinkopf added two other smaller holes to
facilitate the intonation of the diatonic scale in the top octave of the
instrument.[black notes open]:
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Michael Laird, a student of Walter Holy, developed an alternative
system with 4 holes in England (black notes open):
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(das Musikinstrumenten Museum), Bad Säckingen (Trompeten Museum),
Nurnberg Das Germanisches Museum, as well as some private
collections in France.
5) Robert Barclay, The Art of the Trumpet Maker, Oxford University
Press, 1992
XII, pages 125 and 126. In the article about the horn intituled COR it is
written:”mais il faut remarquer que le fa du cor-de-chasse est naturel-
About the non-harmonic sounds it is written: “Outre ces tons, le cor
de celui qui en joue”. The article TROMPETTE is less detailed than
the corresponding horn article.
7) Herbert Heyde, Musikinstrumentenbau, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden,
1986
8) Joseph Fröhlich, Systematisches Unterricht, Bonn, 1811 & 1828
9) Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon
10) Dauverné, Méthode de trompette, Paris, 1857. Fac simile edition
by IMD-Arpèges, Paris. Schloßberg, Stamp, Collin...
11) Edward Tarr, The Art of the Baroque Trumpet in 3 volumes,
Schott.
12) Girolamo Fantini, Modo per imparare a sonare di Tromba, Firenze,
1838. Fac simile edition by Brass Press-BIM. Modern Urtext edition
realised by Igino Conforzi for Ut-Orpheus edition, Bologna.
Johann Ernst Altenburg, Versuch einer Anleitung zur heroisch-musikalischen
Trompeter- und Paukerkunst, Halle 1795, ... NAME, Altenburg,
Johann Ernst. 1795. Facsimile edition by Brass Press-BIM. English
translation by Edward Tarr for Brass Press edition.
13) Rainer Egger in Basel and Graham Nicholson in Den Haag provide
models of natural trumpets which can be played both with 4 holes system
and as vent-less instruments. They make various baroque mouthpieces
which are true copies [and some adapted] from originals in
museums in Salzburg, Prague, London, the latter[Leichnamschneider
and so-called Bull] being around 20mm in internal cup diameter .
2) The German trumpet guild, was created in 1623 under the protection
of the Emperor of the Holy German Empire, Various mandates were
added in 1630, 1661 1711 and 1736 It provided legal protection for
both military and court trumpeters .
3) It is copy of a mouthpiece with one of the trumpet made by William
Bull located now in the Museum of London. This mouthpiece
was certainly not made by Bull because two other mouthpieces connected
with Bull trumpets (in Oxford and Warwick) which are both
detailed information on these mouthpieces, see Eric Halfpenny, Early
British Trumpet Mouthpieces, Galpin Society Journal vol. XX, March
1967. pp.76-88.
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