Don't know. But bugles,alpinhorns etc all pretty much work like that. Can't remember if it is a third or a fifth, but I'm betting a fifth since the E is keyed but I don't believe the G is.
The part I never quite understood is why the trumpet is a Bb instrument - I guess it makes fingering easier when transposed from C.
>I wonder why there is any set increment. Our lips can make minute changes, so why only by a fifth? There must be some physics involved with the design of the intrument that causes the incremental jump.
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>>You made me dig bag about 50 years for this one <g>
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>>If I remember correctly, lips can do a 5th.
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>>C 000 D 103 E 120 F100 G 000 A 023? B ??? C 000
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>>Could be completely wrong in remembering but I do remember than with no valves you could play a bugle call, so that means not just octaves.
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>>>There are only 8 possible valve combinations. How do you play the full 12 notes with sharps and flats? The lips are a variable that can change the note values for a combination, but I thought only by an octave.
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>>>000
>>>100
>>>020
>>>003
>>>120
>>>023
>>>123
>>>103
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