🎺 Brass family
Trumpet
🔊 How it makes sound
Buzzing lips into a mouthpiece, with three valves to change the notes.
🎼 Range and clef
About two and a half octaves, high and bright. Reads treble clef, usually in B♭.
🎨 Its timbre colour
Bright, brave and shiny, like a royal announcement.
Timbre is the "colour" of a sound, the idea from Lesson 0. A violin and a flute can play the same note, but you can still tell them apart!
🎧 Listen to
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto, last movement
💡 Fun fact
Trumpets were found in Tutankhamun's tomb, more than 3,000 years old.