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The Moche people of ancient Peru depicted trumpets in their art going back to 300 AD.
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The modern "folded" trumpet (as opposed to a long straight tube) was created around 1400
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Trumpets were introduced into the opera in 1607 with Claudio Monteverdi's opera Orfeo.
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In 1788, Charles Clagget invented the first valve
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In 1801, Windinger of Vienna put five rotary key on the first trumpet.
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in 1814, the valves were added to the trumpet to enable it to play the chromatic scale evenly.
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In 1827, François Dauverné became the first musician to use the new F three-valved trumpet in public performance.
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Berlioz wrote in 1844:
Notwithstanding the real loftiness and distinguished nature of its quality of tone, there are few instruments that have been more degraded (than the trumpet). Down to Beethoven and Weber, every composer – not excepting Mozart – persisted in confining it to the unworthy function of filling up, or in causing it to sound two or three commonplace rhythmical formulae. -
Maynard Ferguson came to prominence playing in Stan Kenton's orchestra, before forming his own band in 1957. He was noted for being able to play accurately in a remarkably high register.
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When i frist played the trumpet