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Brass instruments have got this name due to the stuff which was used from the ancient centuries. Copper and silver are widely applied in production of these instruments nowadays. And some instruments with the same way of sound production were created from wood some centuries ago. Modern brass instruments contain French horn, tuba, cornet, trombone, trumpet and flugelhorn.

The very first peoples have already invented a technique of playing horns and shells. Afterwards people learned to do special instruments of metal that were similar to horns. Those musical instruments had different purposes. Often they were used in military, hunting and religious purposes.

The predecessors of contemporary brass instruments were hunting horns, military horns and post pipes. Valve gear wasn't invented at that time and those instruments could produce only natural scale. Timbres of sounds were changed with the help of the lips of a performer. Fanfares and other military and hunting sounds appeared factually at those times. The natural scale was the foundation of these sounds and people began to apply them in musical practice.

When a proficiency of metal working and metal products producing became better, it became possible to create tubes for wind instruments of definite sizes and finishing. Also people invented the name of natural instruments. It happened due to the development of brass instruments and the betterment of various natural scales producing. There were no valve mechanisms, that is why such musical instruments could produce only natural scale. It was the time when brotherhoods of trumpeters began to appear. At that time 2 brotherhoods of pipers existed: martial trumpeters who sounded military hymns and chambers trumpeters that played in courts.

At the beginning of the XIX century was created valve mechanism. This invention heightened the possibility of scales and the art of performance also changed. The crown that was added to the basic tube changed the form of musical instruments and lowered the pitch.

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