The trumpet can be traced back around 1500 B.C there were silver and bronze trumpets found in king tuts grave. There were different versions of it found in china that look like the trumpet. Instrument design, as well as metal making, improved tremendously over the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, which made these "natural trumpets" more suitable for creating actual music However, these trumpets did not have valves and could only produce a small amount of notes. Also, changing the key meant that you had to change different pipes on the horn. In fact, many examples of the "natural trumpet" can be found easily on You Tube. Due to its limited amount of notes, usage of the natural trumpet started to fade during the Classical and Romantic periods.
