Trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet with the highest register in the brass family, to the bass trumpet, which is pitched one octave below the standard B♭ or C Trumpet.
Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signalling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips (called the player's embouchure), producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century, trumpets have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.
There are many distinct types of trumpet, with the most common being pitched in B♭ (a transposing instrument), having a tubing length of about 1.48 m (4 ft 10 in). Early trumpets did not provide means to change the length of tubing, whereas modern instruments generally have three (or sometimes four) valves in order to change their pitch. There are eight combinations of three valves, making seven different tubing lengths, with the third valve sometimes used as an alternate fingering equivalent to the 1–2 combination. Most trumpets have valves of the piston type, while some have the rotary type. The use of rotary-valved trumpets is more common in orchestral settings (especially in German and German-style orchestras), although this practice varies by country. Each valve, when engaged, increases the length of tubing, lowering the pitch of the instrument. More infos Wikipedia
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Stamps
Louis Armstrong details |
Trumpet player - Greetings booklet |
Louis Armstrong details |
Louis Armstrong details |
Miles Davis details |
Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), trumpeter und composer, details |
Trumpeter (silhouette) and Alto Saxophone details |
Trumpeter details |
Trumpeter (silhouette) details |
Trumpet details |
Trumpeter details |
Ride-cymbal, trumpeter (silhouette) details |
Trumpeter details |
Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), trumpeter, details |
Stamp for postcard 45c - 19th Perleberg Festival 21 Jun 2016, private postal service Dittmer GbR License P2/1657 |
35th Jazz Jamboree '93 in Warsaw, details |
50th Moldejazz, Nils Petter Molvær, details |
Trumpet details |
Commemorative Postmarks
The Instrument
Sacramento Dixieland Jubilee 24 May 1991 |
Jazz Festival Askersund 14 Jun 1991 |
Jazz Fest Station New Orleans 22 Apr - 1 May 1994 |
Traditional Jazz Festival Askersund 16 Jun 1995 |
Louis Armstrong, Bukarest 4 Jul 1998 |
First day postmark Michel Petrucciani, Paris 13 Jul 2002 |
First day postmark Duke Ellington, Paris 13 Jul 2002 |
First day postmark Stephan Grappelli, Paris 13 Jul 2002 |
First day postmark Sidney Bechet, Paris 13 Jul 2002 |
First day postmark Louis Armstrong, Paris 13 Jul 2002 |
First day postmark Ella Fitzgerald, Paris 13 Jul 2002 |
"Jazz in Portugal", Lisbon 26 Jun 2009 |
100th anniversary of Jazz in Nantes 17 Jun 2017 |
Philately day, Genova 7 Oct 2017 |
First day postmark Boris Vian, Paris 12 Jun 2020 |
New Orleans '81 and all that jazz!, 28 Jun 1981 - in blue |
10th Dixieland Festival - Voice of the German Democratic Republic 14-18 May 1980, Dresden 18 May 1980 |
General Polnish Military Orchestra, Leszno 26 May 1988 |
Musical Instruments - trumpet, Barcelona 9 Apr 2010 |
20th anniversary of the Hejnal (signal of triumph), Lublin 15 Aug 2013 |
Summer at the Polnish Post, Krakow 30 Aug 2019 |
310th anniversary of the Admiral Orchestra of the Leningrad war naval base, St. Petersburg |
First day cancel "Music Instruments", Luxembourg 8 Jun 2014 |
20th anniversary of the "La Fedelissima" music band, Florence 5 Dec 2015 |
First day cancel music instruments - Viennese Trumpet, Vienna 28 Jan 2016 |
18th Temafila 4-6 Oct 2019, Budapest 72 4 Oct 2019 |
150th anniversary of "Musikverein St. Pölten" 29 May 1987 |
New Orleans '81 and all that jazz!, 1 Jul 1981 - in black |
Jazz & Blues Station, Houston 17 Sep 1994 |
Traditional Jazz Festival, Askersund archipelago town between Vättern and Tiveden 12 Jun 1992, used 12-14 Jun 1992 |
Traditional Jazz Festival Askersund archipelago town between Vättern and Tiveden 18 Jun 1993, used 18-20 Jun 1993 |
Traditional Jazz Festival Askersund 17 Jun 1994, used 17-19 Jun 1994 |
Traditional Jazz Festival Askersund 14 Jun 1996, used 14-16 Jun 1996 |
Traditional Jazz Festival Askersund 13 Jun 1997, used 13-14 Jun 1997 |
Traditional Jazz Festival Askersund 12 Jun 1998, used 12 Jun 1998 |
Traditional Jazz Festival Askersund 18 Jun 1999, used 18 Jun 1999 |
Traditional Jazz Festival Askersund 16 Jun 2000, used 16 Jun 2000 |
First day postmark Michel Petrucciani, Juan les Pins 13 Jul 2002 |
First day postmark Stephane Grappelli, Juan les Pins 13 Jul 2002 |
First day postmark Duke Ellington, Juan les Pins 13 Jul 2002 |
First day postmark Sidney Bechet, Juan les Pins 13 Jul 2002 |
First day postmark Ella Fitzgerald, Juan les Pins 13 Jul 2002 |
First day postmark Louis Armstrong, Juan les Pins 13 Jul 2002 |
200th anniversary Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, first day cancel, Berlin 12 Feb 2009 |
Federal music festival of the railroaders, Mannheim 15 Jun 2001 |
The "Re-United Friends 1887 - 1987", Montceau-les-Mines 28-29 Mar 1987 |
20th Austrian Brass Music Festival, Vienna 5 Jun 1999 |
3rd regional music salon, Lyon 11 Mar 1989 |
Kids Festival Moscow 18 Jul 1977 |
Trumpeting Black History Month - Portland Jazz Festival 6 Feb 2004 |
Latin Jazz Station, Denver 11 Oct 2008 |
Jazz Fest Station, New Orleans 22 Apr 1994 |
Jazz & Fun Galore Jubilee 24, Sacramento 23 May 1997, in use 23-26 May 1997 |
Louis Armstrong The Blues House Tavern, Dover 3 Oct 2006 |
Great Karl Marx Street festival - "in Nixdorf is music", Berlin 2 May 1981 |
Symphonic concert "The Roman Cave", Timisoara 21 Sep 1986 |
20th music festival, Haguenau 21 Jun 2001 |
Guca Trumpet Festival, Banja Luka 13 Aug 2010 |
FDC cancel "International Day of Trumpet Music", Mostar 1 Oct 2005 |
Commemorative postmark FDC musical instruments, Malaga 9 Apr 2010 |
Musical instruments - trumpet, Madrid 9 Apr 2010 |
Local music festival 6-9 Jun 1975 - 50 years music club St Christina Ravensburg |
Great Karl Marx Street festival 1982 - "in Nixdorf is music", Berlin 8 May 1982 |
Book fair, 30 Apr - 4 May 2008, Geneva |
The Player
Jazzfestival Lysekil 22-23 Jul 1988, Trumpet Player Chet Baker, 22 Jul 1988 |
International Music Day, Louis Armstrong, Bucarest 1 Oct 1990 |
Dixieland Jubilee Station Sacramento 22 May 1992 |
ANA New Orleans Convention 3 Mar 1994 |
National Festival Europa '98, Umbria Jazz, Perugia 3 Apr 1998 |
All That Jazz And Razzmataz Sacramento Jazz Jubilee 25 May 2001 |
First day of issue tallents house Edinburgh 3 Oct 2006 |
Honoring the jazz musician Ken Colyer, Great Yarmouth 18 Apr 2008 |
Louis Prima Station, New Orleans 22 Apr 2010 |
Marsalis Family Station, New Orleans 28 Apr 2011 |
First day cancellation Miles Davis and Edith Piaf New York 12 Jun 2012 |
Celebration of Miles Davis at the Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl Station 27 Jun 2012 |
25th Dürener Jazztage 14 Aug 2015 |
100th anniversary birth of Boris Vian, Montlucon 13-14 Mar 2020 |
Saza Station - a taste of New Orleans, San Antonio 21 Apr 2002 |
Jazz 'n Kick in '96, Sacramento 24 May 1996 |
Jazz Fest Station, New Orleans 3 May 2012 |
Polish people in WW2, Koszalin 23 Oct 2015 |
First day postmark Edith Piaf/Miles Davis, Paris 12 Jun 2012 |
First day postmark 100th anniversary of the birth of Boris Vian, Paris 6 Mar 2020 |
Jazz Fest Station, New Orleans 6 May 2011 |
Jazz Fest Station, New Orleans 3 May 2012 |
33rd annual San Diego Jazz Festival 1980-2012, 28 Nov 2012, postmark inkjet printed |
Jazzfestival Lysekil 21-22 Jul 1989, Trumpet Player Chet Baker, 21 Jul 1989 |
Music in Sweden, Stockholm 1 Oct 1983 |
First day postmark Louis Armstrong, Paris 13 Jul 2002 |
10th Austrian Brass Music Festival, Vienna 27 May 1989 |
The 18th & Vine Historic Jazz District, American Jazz Museum, Kansas City 30 Apr 2011 |
34th annual San Diego Jazz Festival 1980-2013, San Diego 29 Nov 2013, in use 29-30 Nov 2013 |
Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, 28 May 2004 |
33rd annual Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, 26 May 2006 |
33rd annual Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, 28 May 2006 |
33rd annual Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, 29 May 2006 |
6th annual black heritage celebration station, Oklahoma City 18 Feb 2004 |
Sacramento Jazz Jubilee '95, May 1995, in use 26-29 May 1995 |
50th Guca Trumpet Player's Gathering, Belgrade 13 Aug 2010 |
Flower parade, Moenchengladbach 9 Sep 1979 |
The trumpet town honors J. V. v. Scheffel at his 100th anniversary of death 1886-1986, Bad Saeckingen 26 Jun 1986 |
National Stamp Exhibition of the GDR, Day of the youth, Magdeburg 6 Nov 1969 |
The Symbol
35th Jazz Jamboree 93, Warsaw 27 Sep 1993 |
30th Swiss Music Festival, Interlaken 14-16/21-23 Jun 1996 |
Music Fair, Graz 17-19.Oct 1997 |
First day postmark for "Bremer Stadtmusikanten", Berlin 9 Feb 2017 |
First day postmark, Maribor 13 Nov 2020 |
40th anniversary of Polnish Radio, Krakow 10 Feb 1985 |
Uruguayan African Descent Antonio Sayago, Montevideo 2 Dec 2016 |
N.O. Jazz & Heritage Festival 50th anniversary station, New Orleans 2 May 2019 |
70th birtday of Zdenek Netopil (*1948), Prague 20 Jun 2018 |
NCAA New Orleans university final four 1987, 30 Mar 1987 |
Stamp Day related to the 50th anniversary of the town Sävsjö, anniversary logo Sävsjö, 4 Oct 1997 |
Old town market days, guard parade with trumpet Stockholm 27 Apr 1974, used 27-28 Apr 1974 |
Merry Christmas, visit of Santa Claus in the post museum. Stockholm 14 Dec 1997 |
Bremen town musicians, first day issue postmark, Berlin 9 Feb 2017 |
34th annual Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, 28 May 2007 |
State Fair of Virginia "Mooo-di Gras!", Richmond Sep 1999, in use 23 Sep - 3 Oct 1999 |
Digital colour postmark "Latin Music Legends", Austin 16 Mar 2011 |
50th anniversary of the foundation of the ANB, Roma 27 Jun 1974 |
The World of Music - Milcopex '85, Milwaukee 3 Mar 1985 |
Continental advertising congress 1938, Vienna 11 Jun 1938 |
Commemorative postmark 2nd conference of the amateur dramatic society of the GDR 15-21 Oct 1962, Meissen 21 Oct 1962 |
Special postmark "1st European Cup of Majorettes" (young women in uniform in front of musical groups), Saint-Die-des-Vosges 10-11 Jul 1971 |
Postal exhibition Goteborg "Musical Instrument", Goteborg, 4 Sep 1986 |
Special postmark "Pioneer Festival of the Stollberg District in the Kulturhaus Hans Marchwitze", Oelsnitz 12 Dec 1980 |
fiftieth anniversary of the armistice, Verdun 10 Nov 1968 |
Summer entertainment, Copenhagen 1 Jun 1978 |
The Music
Post-exhibition "Haydn and his time", Haydn signature Apr 1773 and notation for his trumpet concert, Goteborg 28 Dec 1982 |
Meter Marks
Postage meters first appeared experimentally at the end of the 19th century and came into general use worldwide starting in the 1920s. By the 1960s more mail was being franked by postage meter than with traditional adhesive stamps. The trend continues today as mechanical postage meters are displaced by newer and more versatile digital franking machines and systems.
In 2005 Joel Hawkins and Rick Stambaugh published The International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog, in 2008 it was followed by a supplement. Text in italic letters point out the used machines. For more information see https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/International_Postage_Meter_Stamp_Catalog
Henry Selmer Paris, trumpet maker, Elkhart 23 Jan 1940, Pitney Bowes model JC or JDC |
Music for instruments, Stockholm 24 Sep 1965, Francotyp "Cc/Ccm" type A |
"Bürgermeisteramt" (= mayor's office) Bad Säckingen 10 Mar 1997, Francotyp-Postalia "EFS3000/NEF300" |
Music Bertram, Freiburg im Breisgau 4 Aug 2000. Ascom Hasler “Smile” |
Manfred Schmelzer brass instruments, Mönchengladbach 8 Aug 1982, Hasler “Mailmaster” |
Music house Lange, Ravensburg 20 Aug 2001, Francotyp “Cc/Ccm” type B |
Jazzfestival Kristianstad-Ahus 19-21 Jul 1990, Kristianstad 10 Jul 1990, Pitney Bowes-GB “6500” series |
Music store in Chateau-Thierry, 20 Apr 1964, Havas "M" type C |
The current record brand - Sonet, Kobenhavn 13 Oct 1961, Hasler "99" type C |
Musical notations for instruments, Stockholm 24 Sep 1965, Francotyp "Cc/Ccm" type A |
Ludwig Güttler, saxophones, trumpets, brass-ensemble, Dresden 9 Dec 2004, Francotyp-Postalia “EFS3000/NEF300” |
Trumpet as a symbol, Zaandam 23 Jan 1953, Safag “2” |
Ewoton music publisher Elmar Wolf GmbH, Kaiserslautern Aug 1996, Hasler “Mailmaster” |
Trumpet as a symbol, Utrecht 20 Oct 2000, Francotyp-Postalia “EFS3000/NEF300” |
Leigh's Paints - raven and trumpet symbol, Bolton 4 Sep 2001, Neopost “IJ65/ 75/ 80/ 90/ 110” type B |
Trosa music, 5 Nov 1982, Pitney Bowes-GB “6300” series |
House of advertising, Bremerhaven 9 Sep 1960, Francotyp “Cc/Ccm/Cm” |
Slogan Postmarks
10th Old Time Jazz-Festival Breda 1 May 1980 |
Machine cancellation June Spring Musical Jazz, Nice 13 May 1952 |
Music festival "Rheinknie Session 92", Basel 18 Oct 1992 |
Soro Jazzfestival on the 3rd weekend of August 14 Jul 1980 |
International Jazz Festival Lugano 19-20 Sep 1963, 18 Sep 1963 |
First day postmark Miles Davis, New York 12 Jun 2012 details |
Copenhagen community's summer entertainment read the Friday ad from June to August, 22 Jun 1978 |
Slogan postmark "Bundes Musikfest Karlsruhe Pfingsten 1958", Karlsruhe 26 Apr 1958 |
Music festival WDR and the town of Duisburg 1-9 Jun 1985 |
30th anniversary music festival Interlaken 14-16 and 21-23 Jun 1996, 6 May 1996 |
International Military Music Festival 29 Sep - 1 Oct 1967, Lorient |
Exhibition fair Lorient 30 Sep - 9 Oct 1967, Lorient 1 Aug 1967 |
Music festival 21 June, Monte Carlo 29 Jun 2012 |
8th Swiss Boys Music Days 16-17 Jun 1973, St Gallen 14 May 1973 |
"AVO Session am Rheinknie" 5-15 Nov 1998, Basel 1 Oct 1998 |
Music festival "Rheinknie Session 94" 14-29 October, Basel 19 Sep 1994 |
Music festival "Rheinknie Session 95" 13-27 October, Basel 20 Oct 1995 |
Music festival "Rheinknie Session 96" 20-29 October, Basel 16 Sep 1996 |
Music Festival 11-13 + 18-20 Jun 1976, Biel/Bienne 18 Jun 1976 |
Copenhagen Community's summer entertainment read the Friday ad from June to August |
Stationaries
Romania 2001 The New Synagogue Cetate Timisoara - musical instruments |
Telegrams
Prêts-à-Poster (PAP)
Jazz Festival Juan-les-Pins |





























































































































































































































































































































































































