trumpet

     

Let it be on your "conchience" that conch shells are often used in place of this musical instrument

Trivia about trumpet

  • What "Satchmo" played
  • The difference between a cornet & this almost-indentical inst. is that the cornet is shorter, with a more conical bore
  • At 14 Wynton Marsalis was a featured soloist on this instrument with the New Orleans Philharmonic
  • At age 14 Wynton Marsalis performed Haydn's concerto for this instrument
  • Armstrong learned cornet at the Colored Waifs' Home; he switched to this larger instrument later
  • In one aria, this brass instrument "shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible"
  • It's the call of an elephant or a brass instrument, or the brass instrument itself
  • In the history of jazz, Dizzy Gillespie & Louis Armstrong were 2 of the greatest players of this instrument
  • The word "tuba" comes from the Latin for this other brass wind instrument
  • As a verb, this musical instrument means to proclaim loudly
  • I'll announce your arrival at the joust, my liege, with a coiled one of the instruments heard here:
  • Wynton Marsalis
  • Jazz musician Maynard Ferguson is renowned for his high, squealing tone on this instrument
  • Elephants call each other with this instrument (but not literally, except maybe at Ringling Bros.)
  • From the old French for "small horn", it's the instrument heard here
  • Dizzy Gillespie
  • Wynton Marsalis should know that "tubincinate" means to blow this instrument, his specialty
  • It comes before "vine" in the common name of Campsis radicans
  • The flowers seen here are called "the Angels' version of" this instrument
  • Herb Alpert