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.

The trumpet was a natural brass instrument prior to about 1795, and the horn before about 1820.

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.

The trumpet Davis used on the recording is currently displayed in the music building on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The image of the angel Moroni blowing a trumpet is commonly used as an unofficial symbol of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The C trumpet is most common in American orchestral playing, where it is used alongside the B trumpet.

The recorder, modern B-flat trumpet, oboe, and soprano saxophone have all been used as substitutes for the cornetto in modern performances.

According to Navy veteran Sho Mitani, ' The Army used a trumpet sound that meant " Kill all Chinese who run away "'.

Many of her statues also hold a bugle and a trumpet ( both used to support the actors ' voices in ancient comedy ), or occasionally a shepherd ’ s staff or a wreath of ivy.

* The Triton shell also known as " Triton's trumpet " Charonia tritonis which is used as a trumpet in Melanesian and Polynesian culture and also in Korea and Japan.

* The Queen Conch Strombus gigas, is or was sometimes used as a trumpet in the Caribbean.

However, when written in the treble clef it is often used as transposing instrument, transposing downwards a major ninth, so that written middle C for the baritone is concert B below low C, with the fingerings thus matching those of the trumpet but sounding an octave lower.

Legendary trumpeter Maynard Ferguson used a baritone horn in the song " Gospel John " and in one of his three solos ( the other two involving a valved trombone and a trumpet ) in a live performance of one of his songs " Great Guns "

Fred Schneider of The B-52s plays a plastic toy slide whistle in live performances of the song " Party Out of Bounds " as a prop for the song's drunken partygoer theme, in place of the trumpet thus used in the studio for the Wild Planet song.

In the Temple in Jerusalem, the shofar was sometimes used together with the trumpet.

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.

In the 15th century, timpani were used with trumpet s as ceremonial instruments in the cavalry.

These instruments, called in English a birch trumpet were used for calling cattle and signaling.

The instrumental palette was also extended with acoustic guitar, violin ( from local musician Owen John ) and saxophone and trumpet ( from members of The Jazz Butcher ) being used on some songs.

The trumpet serenade was used for Blumine with little changes.

These include drums suspended in the ceiling so they don ’ t touch the ground until they are needed for ritual song and dance ; a fire starter traditionally consisting of a fire drill ( two sticks ) and more recently a lighter, matches or flint ; benches to sit around ; ceramic bowls for preparing and eating ritual meals or offerings ; a conch shell “ trumpet ” to announce the beginning of a ceremony for both villagers and the gods ; a large hollowed trough to make the alcohol Balché for ritual consumption ; and most importantly the God House contains rubber characters, incense nodules ( made of copal ), and ceramic God pots used to burn the offerings for the rituals.

A late 19th-century speaking trumpet used by firefighter s.

* A nickname for a shallow-cupped trumpet mouthpiece generally used to produce notes in the extreme high register

The new instrument was used by Kenton to " bridge the gap " in tonalities between his trumpet and trombone sections.

* Clarion ( instrument ), a type of trumpet used in the Middle Ages

Hesychius of Alexandria glosses the Galatian word karnon ( κάρνον ) as " Gallic trumpet ", that is, the Celtic military horn listed as the carnyx ( κάρνυξ ) by Eustathius of Thessalonica, who notes the instrument's animal-shaped bell.

Balkan Brass, or " truba " ( trumpet ) is a popular genre that originated during the First Serbian Uprising ( 1804 – 1813 ) with military marching bands that transposed Serbian folk music.

Richard Wagner's first intention for Der Ring des Nibelungen was a bass trumpet in 13 ' E, based on the instruments he would have come across during his dealings with military bands.

Following the development of instruments such as the keyed trumpet or the saxhorn family of brass instruments, a second tradition of the brass and woodwind military band was formed.

In the days of the Imperial Russian Armed Forces, military bands followed the German style military bands, with the addition of the chromatic fanfare trumpet.

As a child, he studied music in Randers and Odense, and by age 14 he was playing the trumpet in a military band.

" Reveille " is a bugle call, trumpet call or pipes call most often associated with the military or summer camp ; it is chiefly used to wake military personnel at sunrise.

They serve to disguise the nature of the operation should an enemy or unauthorised person come across the name ( although the military of the United States have recently used codenames to trumpet the operation's intention, such as Operation Iraqi Freedom ).

The natural trumpet was used as a military instrument to facilitate communication ( e. g. break camp, retreat, etc.