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Ancient peoples used brass to produce this type of musical instruments and that is why the notion “brass” came and is still applied today. But today copper and silver can be also applied in their production. But in the Middle Ages people who didn't know how to produce it from metal applied timber for the musical instruments of the similar way of sound producing. Modern brass instruments contain French horn, tuba, cornet, trombone, trumpet and flugelhorn.

The very first peoples have already invented a technique of blowing horns and shells. Later on instruments that were alike horns appear when people started the production of instruments of metal. Those instruments had different purposes. Often they were applied in military, hunting and divine purposes.

Nowadays' brass instruments came from hunting bugles, military bugles and postal pipes. Such musical instruments could only produce natural scale sounds because at those times there weren't valve mechanisms in them. A performer changed the timber of an instrument only with the help of his lips. At those centuries also fanfares and other sounds of hunting and martial destinations appeared. The natural scale was the foundation of these sounds and people began to apply them in musical practice.

The tubes of different dimensions and shapes appeared with the increasing of metal working that made feasible the producing of brass instruments. During the progress of brass instruments and the betterment of diverse natural scale sound playing the term of natural musical instruments appeared. They were musical instruments without any gear and could produce only natural scale. Different brotherhoods of piper gathered at that time. They were divided into two kinds: chamber trumpet-players that gave the performances in castles and marching pipers who were the military musicians.

XIX century became the age when valve mechanism was invented. The art of playing was changed owing to this novelty and the ability of scales was heightened. An extra crown was placed in the basic tube, it increased the dimension of an instrument and lowered its pitch.

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