Tag: trumpet valves

• Developing the Microtonal Trumpet and its Pedagogy

  The trumpet is microtonal by its very nature because different pitches, which are made by overblowing a length of brass tubing, produce a harmonic series and are therefore not equally tempered: In the example, pitches are shown as sounding in open position on a C trumpet. Open position refers to there being no valves depressed: the trumpet player…

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  August 5, 2015

  microtonality

  harmonic series, microtonal trumpet, quarter-tone trumpet, trumpet valves