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Antique peoples used brass to make this kind of instruments and that's why the notion “brass” came and is still applied nowadays. Nowadays people also get to apply copper and silver in the producing of brass instruments. In the Middle Ages people produced the similar instruments applying basically timber because many people couldn't make it of metal. Contemporary brass instruments consist of French horn, tuba, cornet, trombone, trumpet and flugelhorn.
A proficiency of blowing a horn or a shell was known in the ancient centuries. Later instruments that were alike bugles were produced when people started the production of instruments of metal. Those musical instruments were intended for military, hunting and religious purposes.
Nowadays' brass instruments came from hunting horns, military bugles and post clarions. Those instruments didn't have any gear and produced only some notes of natural scale. Timbres of sounds were changed with the assistance of the lips of a performer. At that time also fanfares and other signals of hunting and martial purposes appeared. They were founded on the natural scale and solidly settled in musical practice.
When a proficiency of metal working and metal products producing became better, it became possible to make tubes for wind instruments of definite sizes and finishing. Also people created the name of natural instruments. It occurred due to the progress of brass instruments and the betterment of various natural scales producing. There were no valve mechanisms, that is why such instruments could produce only natural scale. It was the age when guilds of trumpeters began to appear. They were separated into two types: chamber trumpeters that gave the performances in courts and marching pipers who were the military musicians.
At the very beginning of the nineteenth century was invented valve mechanism. This invention heightened the possibility of scales and the art of playing also transformed. The point of that gear was in adding the crown in the basic pipe. It transformed the form of instruments and the pitch was lowered.