Our business firm trades used brass instruments, you may easily get it in our internet shop. On this page you would see a lot of different kinds of brass instruments.

Brass instruments have got this name owing to the stuff which was applied from the antique times. Copper and silver are widely applied in production of these instruments today. In the Middle Ages people produced the same instruments applying basically timber because a lot of people weren't able to produce it of metal. Brass instruments include modern French horn, tuba, cornet, trombone, trumpet and flugelhorn.

Ancient people created a technique of playing horns and shells from the first steps of civilization. Later on instruments that were similar to horns were produced when people started the production of instruments of metal. Usually such musical instruments were used during hostilities, hunting or had some divine destinations.

Hunting horns, military horns and post clarions were the predecessors of modern brass instruments. Such musical instruments could only produce natural scale sounds because at those times there weren't valve mechanisms in them. Timbres of sounds were changed with the assistance of the lips of a player. All martial and hunting fanfares and sounds appeared at ancient centuries. They were founded on the natural scale and solidly settled in musical practice.

The tubes of diverse 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 improvement of diverse natural scale sound playing the term of natural instruments appeared. Natural scale was the foundation scale of those instruments because at those centuries people didn't invent valve mechanism yet. It was the time when guilds of trumpeters began to appear. At that age two brotherhoods of pipers existed: military trumpeters who played military hymns and chambers trumpet-players that played in courts.

People created valve mechanism only at the very beginning of the nineteenth century. It strictly changed the art of performance and heightened the possibility of brass instruments. The principle of that gear was in including the crown in the main pipe. It transformed the shape of instruments and the pitch was lowered.

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