Trumpet

1. (Ger. Trompe’te; Fr. trompette; It. trom’ba.) An orchestral metal wind-instr. having a tube of somewhat narrow scale, and a cupped mouthpiece; the convolutions of the tube are straighter than in the horn, and the bell is much smaller; length of tube, for the typical pitch in D, is about 7 ft. 3k in, By the aid of crooks the pitch of the prime tone in the natural trumpet may be modified to any degree of the 12+ tone chromatic scale(4, Bp, B, C, Dp, D, Ep, E, F, Fh, G, Ab; and also to high 4 and Bp). The natural trumpet has the following scale ————— _—— SSS oc which, by combining the tones obtained by using the various crooks, gives the following complete compa ; il nuances bi. __ only in forte valves (comp. Valve). [N. B. With regard to the a umed inferiority in tone of the valve-trumpet and valve horn, as compared with the natural instr.s, no le an authority than Gevaert writes: ‘The chromatic horns and trumpets, when well constructed, TRUMSCH po e all the qualities of timbre proper to the natural instr.s, in addition to their own resources”.]—2. In the organ, an 8-foot reed-stop of powerful Trum’scheit (Ger.) Tromba marina.