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Antique peoples applied brass to produce this kind of instruments and that is why the name “brass” came and is still applied today. Copper and silver are broadly applied in making of brass instruments nowadays. But in the Middle Ages people who didn't know the technology of metal working applied timber for the instruments of the similar way of sound producing. French horn, tuba, trumpet, cornet, trombone and flugelhorn are contained to the contemporary family of brass instruments.
Ancient peoples created a technique of playing horns and shells from the first steps of civilization. Diverse versions of musical instruments appeared when people began to create them of metal. Usually such musical instruments were used during a war, hunting or had some divine purposes.
The ancestors of contemporary brass instruments were hunting horns, military bugles and postal clarions. Such musical instruments could only produce 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 those centuries also fanfares and other signals of hunting and military purposes appeared. The natural scale was the basis of these sounds and people began to apply them in musical art.
The tubes of different dimensions and shapes appeared with the development of metal working that made feasible the productions of brass instruments. During the developing of brass instruments and the betterment of diverse natural scale sound playing the notion of natural instruments appeared. Natural scale was the basic scale of those instruments because at that time people didn't know valve gear yet. It was the age when guilds of trumpeters began to appear. At that time two brotherhoods of trumpeters dwelled: military trumpeters who played military hymns and chambers trumpet-players that played in castles.
People created valve mechanism only at the very beginning of the nineteenth century. This novelty heightened the ability of scales and the technique of performance also changed. The point of that mechanism was in including the crown in the basic pipe. It changed the form of instruments and the pitch was lowered.
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