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OCR: FACTS BOX NAME: TRUMPET FAMILY Brass BRASS PITCH RANGE: Two-and-three-quarter octaves COMP MATERIAL: Brass usually covered in RANGE lacquer SIZE: About 18in (46 cm long total length unwound tube is 4 fT 6in 1.4m} ORIGINS The earliest valve trumpets were built in Germany in 1820. and in the States around 1825 They were refined it Europe during the 19th century instrument CLASSIFICATION that produces Aerophone: sound an by the 7 K vibration of a column of air DID YOU KNOW? Trumpets are at least 250 years old: silver and bronze trumpets were arnong the objects found n the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen in Egypt usuall ound toml