MLB.TV: Watch every night on every device. Get live out-of-market games all season long on more than 400 devices. Plus, enjoy full portability with a free subscription to At Bat Premium ($19.99 value). Blue Jays Insider.
The Wagner tuba is a narrow-bore tuba with a French-horn mouthpiece. Tubas appeared first in Berlin in the 1820s, soon after the invention of the valve. They were soon accepted into the band and orchestra, displacing the serpent, ophicleide, and other such instruments of poorer tone quality and intonation.
The trumpet can be found in antiquity and among all primitive civilizations. Early trumpets were tubes made of wood, bamboo, or gourd. In ancient Egypt trumpet like instruments were made of silver, and ancient Greek instruments of ivory still exist. The modern trumpet began to evolve around 1300 with the introduction of a metal instrument with a wide flared bell and short cylindrical bore.