Mock trumpet

The mock trumpet is a single-reed woodwind instrument popular during the second half of the seventeenth century, especially in England.

[1] Thurston Dart wrote that the mock trumpet was the name for the chalumeau in England, and that music was published for it in 1698.

[2] Mock trumpets are keyless reed-pipes, closed on one end by the natural joint of the cane and wrapped in leather.

[5] Documented music for the mock trumpet primarily includes tutors and method books, indicating that this was an instrument studied in the Western Classical tradition.

[1] The instrument as played in England was in the key of G.[2] Content from The Fourth Compleat Book for the Mock Trumpet, "published between November 1706 and October 1708" showed the available notes to be G4, A4, B4, C5, D5, E5, F5, G5.

Drawings of idioglot reeds from an arghul, which used both kinds. These are tubular single reeds in which the reed is still part of the reed stem. Also used in bagpipes. Reeds can be split from middle upward (kataglott, the reed hangs down) and from top downward (anaglott, the reed stands up).