How can a Trumpet have to many pitches but only 3 buttons?

What do you call them?Buttons?


And do you use your fingers to make different pitches?I just love trumpets and want to know alot about them.I especially love jazz trumpet music

How can a Trumpet have to many pitches but only 3 buttons?
this will tell you all you need to know





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet
Reply:There are two ways to the change the pitch. The first is, as you mentioned, buttons (which are called valves). These can be used in any combination to create different pitches. The other way to change pitch is through embouchure and air speed. The embouchure is the shape of the lips, which can be tightened or loosened to raise or lower the pitch. Also, players can open their mouths more to lower the pitch. By using faster or slower air, also the pitch is raised and lowered. By combining the valves and the embouchure/air, trumpets can plays a large range of notes.
Reply:Well there's technically 8 different fingerings on a trumpet (3rd finger is the same as 1st and 2nd.) But since the trumpet is a brass instrument, you buzz into the mouthpiece and depending on your embouchure muscles you can play different partials. The lowest partial of a trumpet ranges from F# (E concert, All three fingers down and the space two ledger lines below the staff) to C (Bb concert, open, one ledger line below the staff)





As you change your embouchure you can play different ranges. If you play open, you can play C, G, C, E, G, Bb, C all without moving your fingers, so that's how the trumpet has so many pitches despite having only three valves.





Hope this helps.
Reply:Think of it this way: trumpets existed before valves were invented (valves came about in the late 18th - early 19th century). Think of all those movies you've seen that take place in medieval times, when the trumpets were just long tubes with a flared bell, and you'll get the idea.





In the old days, you had trumpets with no valves- so the players would have to change their embrochure (how they pucker their lips) and air stream to get different notes. The notes they would get would based upon something called the overtone series, and that series can be derived using simple mathematical formulas.





(The overtone series, incidentally, is the fundamental basis behind the physics of just about all pitched musical instruments- trumpets, horns, pianos, flutes, guitars, violins, etc. are all pitched and tuned to a variant of this series.)





So when trumpets added valves, the valves merely expanded the range of notes a trumpet could play: instead of only playing the notes of a single determined overtone series, trumpets could now play the notes of other series based on which valves were pressed down.
Reply:I love the trumpet too! I play trumpet ,trombone ,flugelhorn and cornet! Since you love the trumpet I strongly advise you get the great 4 hour educational DVD by Warren Vache called "I Love The Trumpet" . It should be available on Amazon .com or warrenvache.com He is a great trumpet player and educator on all things trumpet. As for your question the "buttons" are called valve caps and move the valves to add different lengths of tubing for different notes on the trumpet. As I mentioned the DVD "I Love The Trumpet" will explain in video as well as words many more things about the great instrument that is the trumpet!! Suggested websites maynardferguson.com jazztrumpetsolos.com
Reply:Ok, I've been playing trumpet for six years so hear ya go. The 'buttons' are called valves. They do have some importance, but most of the sound comes from the embouchre. Embouchre is a french word for how you shape your lips when you play. To play a higher pitch, you tighten your lips and arch your tongue up, to lower the pitch you loosen your lips and lower your tongue. Basically it. Any other questions just shoot me an email, ill get back to you.
Reply:overblowing, raises the pitch, im not sure by how much, i only played the trumpet for like a month but you just kind of tighten up the embouchure, i think...
Reply:Not only are there 3 buttons(valves), but you use your lips to alter the tone too.
Reply:harmonics with the mouth peice and using blowing techniques
Reply:its cause of the ombochure muscles.