It's interesting how the making of these trumpets is quite similar to the making of metal organ pipes.

Both fascinating and informative. Thanks, Mr Geelen.

This was a most interesting video. In junior high school I began teaching myself how to play the cornet. The first step was to acquire a U.S. Army plastic bugle from the army surplus store. I removed the tuning slide, sanded it a bit, applied Vaseline to it to make a slide bugle. The slide could only be extended to add a minor third to the tubing so there were some notes in the lowest register I couldn't hit accurately. My mother felt sorry for me and bought a very cheap used cornet at a pawn shop which I taught myself to play. I later moved on to the tuba in the high school band.

WOW! Fantastically interesting.

Ah formidable la NBS, vous avez sous-titré le magnifique trompettiste, merci! =thank you very very much!

Thanks for this amazing mini-documentary!

Your introduction was very inspirational. Excellent video. TX

Great documentary, great personality showing a little hint of tremendous work and mental work that were necessary to be able to tell so concisely and easy to understand . Thank you very much!

¡Gracias por ponerle subtítulos a este magnífico video! Las interpretaciones llamadas "informadas" de las prácticas antiguas u originales, necesariamente exigen conocimientos sobre la fabricación de los instrumentos. Existen películas sobre las leyendas en la fabricación de instrumentos de cuerda: las condiciones de clima bajo las que crecieron los árboles, las plagas que sufrieron, las recetas para producir los barnices, los materiales para las cuerdas y los arcos... esta es la primera vez que vemos el proceso artesanal para construir los instrumentos de metal, con todo el color original. Ahora bien, podemos intuir que las ideas ambiciosas que los compositores, Johann Sebastian Bach entre ellos, plasmaron en sus partituras manuscritas, seguramente impusieron retos para que los fabricantes de instrumentos innovaran progresivamente, hasta llegar a lo que hoy conocemos como sonidos electrónicos e inteligencia artificial: herramientas que en la manos adecuadas, son capaces de arrojar resultados muy estimulantes para los compositores, intérpretes y escuchas.

Felicitaciones por presentar a este músico-luthier. Me hizo recordar cuando estudiaba Fagot, y pasaba muchas horas con la persona que me ayudaba a mejorarlo (era un instrumento prestado que había estado guardado muchos años). Excelente video y excelente trabajo.

¡Hala! Nunca hubiera crecido que existían orfebres de trompeta y que sean a la vez buenos trompetistas. Gracias NBS, gracias por compartirnos obras de Bach tocadas por buenísimos músicos

Very nice.. I build a baroque trumpet by myself and it is really a great feeling.

Thank you for the most lucid explanation of the evolution of the "modern baroque trumpet" I have heard. I cannot help but wonder what listeners in Bach's time thought of the usually out of tune natural trumpet parts that they heard. Were prodigies like Gottfried Reich (Bach's star trumpeter) capable of sufficiently "lipping" the notes to the point of acceptability, or did people simple put up with a very imperfect sound? Can anyone comment?

this is amazing. thank you!

Gracias por enseñarnos tan interesante información. Conocer los entresijos de tan especiales instrumentos nos hace comprender su importancia a la hora de disfrutar de sus espectaculares sonidos.¡FELICITACIONES!🌞🌙👏👍🎶🌝⚘

Brilliant video

Ik ben erg protz op je. Groetjes xx Graham.

One of the most elegant, intelligent and beautiful things made of metal is the natural trumpet.

Great vid very interesting

You could have just added subtitles to the previous upload. Baking in the subtitles is generally regarded as the "wrong" way as opposed to adding a subtitle file that you can enable/disable.

The Baroque Trumpet is twice the length of a Modern D Trumpet so it speaks an Octave below.

Très intéressant!

5:16 Now that's more like it, those Venting Holes make a huge difference so that playing in tune is even easier.

NBS should start a completely new documentaire about Johann Sebastian Bach! In 4K and new studies about our beloved J.S Bach

Gracias y saludos cordiales desde Mallorca para vosotros nethelans baroque 😍😍

A natural trumpet seems like a much easier instrument to make than, say, a violin or something like that. Am I correct in this assessment?

Wow you actually lipped the B up to pitch! 4:40 it’s usually much flatter-nice!

Hallo Bart! Heb je de fotos van mijn mondstuk gezien?

Meraviglioso ! Vorrei poter fare questo

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For anyone interested in the trumpets made by Mark Geelen (me) you can look at “Martinus Geelen Trumpets” on facebook. facebook.com/MartinusGeelenNaturalTrumpets/ And www.mgtrumpets.com

It's twice the length of a Modern Trumpet so it's down an Octave

The Vent Holes are reminiscent of the Recorder.

Can you please make me your apprentice, I would love to know how to perfect such art

I will take one baroque trumpet please! :D

The mouth piece looks small compared to the ones used by those who play without holes.

As you mentioned, there are REAL 'natural' trumpet players who play THE trumpet WITHOUT vent holes. If historic performance makes sense, THIS is the way it shall be done. Check for Julian Zimmermann, Jean-François Madeuf and a handful more. If not, it is the same as playing the continuo with a piano.

I love baroque trumpet. Nice to have some honesty re the holes. So, how is it that after 50+ years of the baroque revival, most brass players are still frauds?

A vented natural trumpet is better than a shrill piccolo trumpet! I think orchestral trumpeters are arrogant and lazy if the can’t be bothered learning how to play the natural trumpet!