Re:Hummingbird – A fresh take on music notation
by anigbrowl on Thursday April 11, 2013 @04:06PM
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I was incorrect about trumpets, but not about other instruments. My point that many instruments are restricted to a particular scale is entirely correct.
Also, I was playing and recording music since before wikipedia even came into existence, so dial back those assumptions.
The chromatic trumpet is an invention that allowed us to escape the trumpets natural harmonic series (Those being the notes a trumpet can play in a single valve position) before valves were invented by drilling holes along its tubes.
Wikipedia is not the best place to learn music theory, and knowing music theory is as useful as knowing a list of rules for programming best practice.