All about the trumpet

A quick guide to the care and maintenance of the trumpet

Why do you get a higher pitched note if you blow harder on a trumpet? Abram Wilson explains how different pitches are produced and why it's often hard to keep them in tune.

Abram Wilson offers a basic guide to trumpet technique

A look at the subtleties of tuning a trumpet, and how the instrument's sharpness or flatness can be adjusted by embouchure, breath control and the mouthpiece

A look at the introduction of valves to the trumpet, brought in out of necessity due to the early instrument's limitations

A look at the evolution of the modern trumpet from its primitive ancestors, and a discussion of how it works

Trumpet players Abram Wilson and Tony Cross talk about the trumpet. A look at tuning, valves, transposition and great trumpet players of the past.

From his childhood in New Orleans to becoming a jazz trumpet player in London, Abram Wilson talks about being a musician

Tony Cross discusses improvising, the Alexander Technique and how got started on the trumpet