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Guest · Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 11:43 pm Post subject: Trmpet

Can anyone tell me when the modern trumpet was invented?

Thanks, Rcihie

david johnson · High C Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 76 Location: arkansas

modern as in three piston valves (or roataries in central europe)?
roughly around the mid 1800s. by the civil war, confederate & union bands used mostly rotary-valve, over-the-shoulder brass.

during the earlier time of joseph haydn, some builders experimented with keyed trumpets/bugles.

by the time jb arban wrote his conservatory method, piston valve cornets were in use.

dj