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Brass instruments have got this name owing to the stuff which was applied from the ancient times. But today copper and silver can be also used in their making. But centuries ago people who didn't know the technology of metal working used wood for the musical instruments of the same way of sound production. French horn, tuba, trumpet, cornet, trombone and flugelhorn are contained to the modern family of brass instruments.

The very first people have already invented a technique of blowing horns and shells. Later on instruments that were alike horns were produced when people started the production of instruments of metal. Those musical instruments were intended for military, hunting and divine goals.

Nowadays' brass instruments derived from hunting horns, martial horns and post clarions. Such musical instruments might only play natural scale sounds because at that time there weren't valve gear in them. Timbres of sounds were changed with the help of the lips of a performer. At that time also fanfares and other signals of hunting and martial destinations appeared. The natural scale was the basis of these sounds and people began to use them in musical practice.

When a proficiency of metal working and metal products producing became greater, it has become possible to create tubes for wind musical instruments of definite sizes and finishing. Also people created the notion of natural instruments. It happened owing to the progress of brass instruments and the betterment of various natural scales producing. Natural scale was the basic scale of those instruments because at those centuries people didn't invent valve gear yet. Guilds of trumpeters appeared at those times. There were two kinds of them: martial trumpeters and chamber trumpet-players that played heavy parts in hard high register.

People created valve gear only at the beginning of the XIX century. This invention increased the ability of scales and the technique of performance also transformed. An extra crown was placed in the basic pipe, it increased the dimension of a musical instrument and lowered its pitch.

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