August 1, 200916 yr Does anyone know the fingerings for a trumpet with two valves? I bought one for cheap just for fun, but can't find a fingering chart on google. edit: Does anyone know anything at all? I don't even know if it's a trumpet, I think it may be a flugel of some sort...
August 1, 200916 yr Simple answer: Hold down the third valve of any garden variety 3-valved brass instrument (...in this case..easiest example would be a 3-valved trumpet) and there you go those are your fingerings. What key is it in by the way? I have VERY LIMITED experience with 2-valve bugles that were in active use in DCI up through the early-90s, but otherwise eehhhh. They had to manipulate slides and some weird keyhole thing in order to get chromatic pitches.
August 1, 200916 yr Author I have no idea what key it is. I know where to place my fingers, and where the tuning slide is, but that's it. Is there a way to find out what key it's in by looking at it or something? The people at long and mcquade had no idea what it was.
August 1, 200916 yr Play it without pressing any of the valves to figure out what key it is. All bugles, cornets, trumpets, flugels, or what have you have a [[harmonic series]], you just need to figure out which one. It might be in G. After that, press the first valve, it will make what ever pitch you are playing lower, probably by one whole step. Then try the second valve (might be a rotor valve), it should also lower the pitch, though probably not as much, a half-step. OR the rotor might lower it a step, and the piston will lower it by a perfect 4th. Unless you have one with two pistons. :sweat:
August 1, 200916 yr Author Thanks. First I need to go see my band leader to learn how to play it though. I've been following instructions from the internet, and I can't do it. I know it works though, my brother, who plays trombone, makes it work.
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