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Brass instruments have got this name owing to the material which was applied from the antique times. But nowadays copper and silver can be also used in their creation. Centuries ago people produced the similar musical instruments using basically timber because many people weren't able to produce it of brass. Brass instruments consist of contemporary French horn, tuba, cornet, trombone, trumpet and flugelhorn.

The very first people have already invented a technique of blowing horns and shells. Different versions of instruments appeared when people began to make them of metal. Often such instruments were used during hostilities, hunting or had some divine purposes.

Nowadays' brass instruments derived from hunting bugles, martial bugles and postal pipes. Valve mechanism wasn't created at that time and those instruments could play only natural scale. Timbres of sounds were changed with the help of the lips of a player. All military and hunting fanfares and sounds appeared at those times. The natural scale was the basis of these sounds and people began to apply them in musical art.

When a proficiency of metal working and metal produces production became greater, it has become possible to create pipes for wind instruments of definite sizes and finishing. During the developing of brass instruments and the improvement of diverse natural scale sound producing the term of natural instruments appeared. Natural scale was the basic scale of those instruments because at that time people didn't invent valve gear yet. Guilds of trumpet-players appeared at those times. There were two types of them: martial pipers and chamber trumpeters that played heavy parts in hard high register.

Nineteenth century became the century when valve mechanism was created. This novelty heightened the possibility of scales and the technique of playing also changed. The crown that was added to the main pipe changed the shape of musical instruments and lowered the pitch.

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