With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were members of the band, and Davis was brought in on third trumpet for a couple of weeks because the regular player, Buddy Anderson, was out sick.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

This sound was to become so characteristic that the use of the Harmon mute by any jazz trumpet player since immediately conjures up Miles Davis.

This figure was positioned in a flying horizontal position holding an open book in one hand and a trumpet in the other.

Yeltsin used his role as president to trumpet Russian sovereignty and patriotism, and his legitimacy as president was a major cause of the collapse of the coup by hard-line government and party officials against Gorbachev in August 1991 Soviet Coup of 1991.

* Cornett: Made of wood and was played like the recorder ( will be mentioned at greater length later on ) but blown like a trumpet.

One biographer describes his early dance band infiltration: " He managed to croon like Bing Crosby and win a competition: he also played drums, guitar and trumpet, in which he was entirely self taught ".

The Goon Show was recorded before a studio audience, and during the audience warm-up session, Milligan would play the trumpet, while Peter Sellers played on the orchestra's drums.

His device was similar to the common ear trumpet, a historical form of hearing aid ; indeed, his invention was almost indistinguishable in structure and function from the trumpet, which was commonly called a " microphone ".

Bird was the first to publish a description of such a stethoscope but he noted in his paper the prior existence of an earlier design ( which he thought was of little utility ) which he described as the snake ear trumpet.

In medieval times, trumpet playing was a guarded craft, its instruction occurring only within highly selective guilds.

The art was revived in the mid-20th century and natural trumpet playing is again a thriving art around the world.

The attempt to give the trumpet more chromatic freedom in its range saw the development of the keyed trumpet, but this was a largely unsuccessful venture due to the poor quality of its sound.

The Band was a Canadian / American roots rock group that originally consisted of Rick Danko ( bass guitar, double bass, fiddle, trombone, vocals ), Levon Helm ( drums, mandolin, guitar, vocals ), Garth Hudson ( keyboard instruments, saxophones, trumpet ), Richard Manuel ( piano, drums, baritone saxophone, vocals ) and Robbie Robertson ( guitar, vocals ).

Her story of the doomed trumpet player Rick Martin was inspired, she wrote, by " the music, but not the life " of Beiderbecke, but the image of Martin quickly became the image of Beiderbecke: His story is about " the gap between the man's musical ability and his ability to fit it to his own life.

It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or " drone pipe ".

The development of the upper, " clarino " register by specialist trumpeters — notably Cesare Bendinelli — would lend itself well to the Baroque era, also known as the " Golden Age of the natural trumpet.

Most successful modern players use a version of the natural trumpet dubbed the baroque trumpet fitted with one or more vent holes to aid in correcting out-of-tune notes in the harmonic series.

The melody-dominated homophony of the classical and romantic periods relegated the trumpet to a secondary role by most major composers owing to the limitations of the natural trumpet.

* natural trumpet

Concertino: natural trumpet in F, recorder, oboe, violin

The trumpet does not play in the second movement, as is common practice in baroque era concerti due to the construction of the natural trumpet, which allows it to play only in one key.

The natural trumpets were not specified by the composer ; indeed it may have been a bit early in the rediscovery of natural trumpet playing for it to be safe to do so.

Dauvernè was Arban's teacher ( the father of modern day trumpeting ) and wrote one of the last methods for the dying art of natural trumpet playing, including some of the first exercises for the cornet and valved trumpet.

Performance of the fanfare on modern valved instruments remains the norm and does not lessen the effect: the parts still feel like natural trumpet lines.

Prior to the invention of the keyed trumpet, the prominent trumpet of the time was the natural trumpet.

The experimental E keyed trumpet was not confined to the natural notes, but was chromatic in all registers of the instrument.

The piece begins with the broken triads and fanfare motifs common to trumpet music of the time ( perhaps as a jibe to the audience who had come to see this exciting new kind of trumpet ), but follows with chromatic runs and diatonic melodies not possible on the valveless natural trumpet.

The Nafir is a long and natural horn similar to the western trumpet.

The malleability and acoustic properties of brass have made it the metal of choice for musical instruments such as the trombone, tuba, trumpet, cornet, euphonium, tenor horn, and French horn which are collectively known as the brass within an orchestra.

This family includes all of the modern brass instruments except the trombone: the trumpet, horn ( also called the French horn ), euphonium, and tuba, as well as the cornet, flügelhorn, tenor horn ( alto horn ), baritone horn, sousaphone, mellophone, and the old saxhorn.

The trumpet and horn are examples of half-tube brass instruments.

* Keyed trumpet ( keyed brass )

The cornet is a brass instrument very similar to the trumpet, distinguished by its conical bore, compact shape, and mellower tone quality.

Like the trumpet and all other modern brass wind instruments, the cornet makes a sound when the player vibrates (" buzzes ") the lips in the mouthpiece, creating a vibrating column of air in the tubing.

According to Farkas the mouthpiece should have 2 / 3 upper lip and 1 / 3 lower lip ( French horn ), 2 / 3 lower lip and 1 / 3 upper lip ( trumpet and cornet ), and more latitude for lower brass ( trombone, baritone, and tuba ).

The flugelhorn (— also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn — from German, wing horn, ) is a brass instrument that resembles a trumpet but has a wider, conical bore.

* Superchops: The virtuoso embrouchure method for trumpet and brass.

The principal trombone is considered the leader of the low brass section, while the principal trumpet is generally considered the leader of the entire brass section.

The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family.

The trumpet is constructed of brass tubing bent twice into a rounded oblong shape.

As with all brass instruments, sound is produced by blowing air through closed lips, producing a " buzzing " sound into the mouthpiece and starting a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the trumpet.

Wagner wrote for an orchestra of gargantuan proportions, including a greatly enlarged brass section with new instruments such as the Wagner tuba, bass trumpet and contrabass trombone.

* certain brass instruments, notably the trumpet and horn.

The mediaeval lituus was a different brass instrument than the ancient Etruscan instrument, described by Kürzinger ( 1763 ) as a variant of the early trumpet or horn, i. e. a later development of the ancient Roman tuba.

Leonhard Paul of Mnozil Brassis a faget ( an Austrian based brass group consisting of three trumpets, three trombones and a tuba ) plays bass trumpet regularly with the ensemble, incorporating its use in many different styles.

The rapidly articulated notes were made possible by the advanced techniques of double-tonguing and triple-tonguing, similar to those used by brass ( trumpet, trombone, etc.

This class includes almost all instruments generally called wind instruments-including the didgeridoo, brass instruments ( e. g., trumpet, french horn, trombone ), and woodwind instruments ( e. g., oboe, flute, saxophone, clarinet ).

* brass: 7 horns ( reinforced by an extra trumpet and trombone in the last movement ), 4 trumpets in F ( trumpets 1, 2 " from a wide distance " in movement 1 ) ( trumpet 1 doubled in fortissimo passages in movement 4 ), 4 trombones ( 4th trombone tacet movements 1 – 3 ), tuba

The F mellophone has tubing half the length of a horn which gives it an overtone series more similar to a trumpet or most other brass instruments.