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| Trumpets have been around for around seven hundred years, albeit straight trumpets. The familiar type of trumpet first appeared in about the fifteenth century, but they were unable to play a full range of chromatic notes and so were limited to ceremonial and military events. By the end of the seventeenth century however, many improvements had been made and trumpets as we know them today came to appear in the orchestra. During the baroque period, the trumpet became widely recognised. Bach and Handel in particular composed elaborate trumpet concertos and solos, and recognised the potential of this instrument, and its wide range of notes, sounding from the E below the treble clef to the C above it. It is however a transposing instrument, which is in B flat. |
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