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Antique people applied brass to make this kind of musical instruments and that is why the notion “brass” came and is still applied nowadays. Today people also get to apply copper and silver in the production of these instruments. But centuries ago people who didn't know the technology of metal working applied timber for the musical instruments of the same way of sound producing. Brass instruments include modern French horn, tuba, cornet, trombone, trumpet and flugelhorn.

A proficiency of blowing a horn or a shell was known in the ancient centuries. Diverse versions of musical instruments appeared when people began to produce them of metal. Usually such instruments were used during hostilities, hunting or had some religious purposes.

Nowadays' brass instruments derived from hunting horns, martial horns and post pipes. Such instruments might only produce natural scale sounds because at those times there weren't valve gear in them. A musician changed the timber of an instrument only with the help of his lips. Fanfares and other martial and hunting signals appeared actually at those times. People began to use these sounds in orchestral music because of their natural scale.

With the increasing of metal working progress and the production musical instruments of metal it became feasible to create tubes of different dimensions and finishing. Also people created the name of natural instruments. It happened due to the progress of brass instruments and the improvement of various natural scales producing. They were the instruments without valve mechanism and could produce only natural scale. It was the age when brotherhoods of pipers began to appear. They were separated into two types: chamber trumpet-players that gave the performances in castles and marching pipers who were the military players.

XIX century became the century when valve gear was invented. The technique of playing was changed owing to this invention and the ability of scales was increased. An additional crown was included in the main tube, it heightened the size of a musical instrument and lowered its pitch.

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