Question about this long, straight trumpet

[DavidFilmer]

Greetings!

The header artwork for this forum features a male figure blowing a long, straight trumpet (apparently of metal construction). I have seen a similar instrument depicted in other Mormon artwork.

I use the term "trumpet" for lack of a better word. Does this long, straight "trumpet" have a unique identifying name?

I'm curious what such an instrument might sound like. Are there any actual instruments such as this in existence today? Is there somewhere that I can download an audio file of a sound sample?

Thanks!

[pam]

It's called a Fanfare trumpet. Over the years there has been some modifications to it.

It used quite often for royal announcements etc.

Here is a youtube video I found on it.

Edited December 30, 2008 by pam

[Bookmeister]

If you wrapped it around itself several times, it would look very much like a bugle. Since there are no valves, like those of a standard trumpet, it plays only in major intervals; you can't sound accidentals such as sharps and flats (which are the same thing, only different). It can sound great, especially in chorus, but it really isn't any good for playing the blues...:)

[HiJolly]

It's called a Fanfare trumpet. Over the years there has been some modifications to it.

It used quite often for royal announcements etc.

Here is a youtube video I found on it.

Except the one in the video has a lot of tubing that the pictured one referred to in the OP doesn't have...

Just blow into the end of an 8 foot PVC pipe. That's about the size of it.

HiJolly (who will concede that prior brass instrument training might help)

[pam]

Except the one in the video has a lot of tubing that the pictured one referred to in the OP doesn't have...

Just blow into the end of an 8 foot PVC pipe. That's about the size of it.

HiJolly (who will concede that prior brass instrument training might help)

Like I said in my earlier post..there have been a lot of modifications to them over the years. I have a friend that has one just like the one in the picture and then one like in the video. He said originally they didn't have all of that stuff but through time have made some modifications to enable more notes etc to be played.

But still called a Fanfare trumpet.

Edited December 31, 2008 by pam

[Moksha]

It's called a Fanfare trumpet. Over the years there has been some modifications to it.

It used quite often for royal announcements etc.

By any chance, was it first used to announce the homecoming of the Vikings sailing up the fjords, or to alert the Swiss Shepherds that the sheep were making their way down from the mountain meadow (no, not that Mountain Meadow!)?

[pam]

It reminds me of that commercial of some cough drop..where a couple of guys in the Alps are trumpeting. Any idea what I'm talking about? lol

[Moksha]

It reminds me of that commercial of some cough drop..where a couple of guys in the Alps are trumpeting. Any idea what I'm talking about? lol

Ricola!

[pam]

That's it!!! Thanks, I couldn't remember the name.

[Palerider]

If you remember watching any of the 3 Stooges episodes they had a show where there were some guys playing these and the stooges started throwing fruit into them to shut them up

[NeuroTypical]

I sort of half-remember a part in the Bible involving King David and his thousand trumpeters or something like that.

Anyone know what I'm talking about? I sure don't...