On Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 11:12:03 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> On 3/28/2021 10:59 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > Before valves, trumpeters produced the "inbetween" notes with
> > their lips.
> Nope.

Yep.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_trumpet>

It was extremely difficult.

Hence the cornetto, whose sound was not as brilliant,
since it was made of wood:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornett>

My first husband was an early music nerd and had a cornetto
and a sackbut:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackbut>

He made his sackbut at an instrument-making workshop
(through, IIRC, the Indiana University).

Cindy Hamilton