Mock_trumpet
Mock trumpet
Single-reed woodwind instrument
The mock trumpet is a single-reed woodwind instrument popular during the second half of the seventeenth century, especially in England. By the 1720s, the mock trumpet was documented in use in the New World.[1]
The mock trumpet predated the chalumeau and may be one of the primary predecessors of both the chalumeau and clarinet.[1] Thurston Dart wrote that the mock trumpet was the name for the chalumeau in England, and that music was published for it in 1698.[2]
Mock trumpets are keyless reed-pipes, closed on one end by the natural joint of the cane and wrapped in leather. The reed is idioglottal, meaning that it is a tongue cut but not detached from the reed itself. The reed was placed on the upper side of the instrument and vibrated against the upper lip; the pipe had six tone holes on top and one in the back.[3] Early chalmeaus used idioglot reeds, as shown in the debate as to whether to install reeds up or down.[4] Rice said the idioglot reed was installed with the split going from the top downward (anaglott).[5]
Documented music for the mock trumpet primarily includes tutors and method books, indicating that this was an instrument studied in the Western Classical tradition.[1]
- Example of an idioglot reed in a reed body, the sipsi.
- Reed pipes in which the idioglot reeds were carved into the same reed as the rest of the pipe. Reclam de xeremies.
- Marin Mersenne's illustration of a chalumeau made from wheat stalks, split to create an idioglot reed.