Baroque trumpet

[1] It is designed to allow modern performers to imitate the natural trumpet when playing music of that time, so it is often associated with it.

[2] Notable baroque trumpet players include Alison Balsom, Niklas Eklund, Brian Shaw, and Caleb Hudson.

Some baroque trumpets have been made using modern manufacturing methods, not the hand-hammered technique employed by master craftsmen such as Schnitzer, Haas, Hainlein, Ehe, and others.

Bore anomalies include (but are not limited to) imperfectly soldered seam tubing and telescoping joints.

The slight acoustical perturbations so produced suggest a further eroding of the harmonic series' rigidity, and a consequently greater flexibility is available to the player.

[clarification needed] Pictures of natural trumpet players show the instrument nobly pointing upwards, held in one hand.

[citation needed] When opened, the vent hole creates a node, or a position along the vibrating air column, where the pressure variations are at a minimum.

This creates a transposition — in the case of a single thumb vent hole, the entire harmonic series of the trumpet is shifted up by a fourth.

British players tend to prefer baroque trumpets with three or four holes, allowing the player to make half-step transpositions and blow a relatively easy high C.[7] An example of a multi-hole baroque trumpet is the coiled Jägertrompete made by Helmut Finke,[8] used by the Concentus Musicus Wien on many of their early recordings.

This is unfortunate, since the art of playing in the highest clarino (clear) register depended to a great extent on the typical shallow-cupped mouthpiece of the period.