TRUMPET (Fr. Trompette; Ger. Trompete, Trummet, Tarantara; Ital. Tromba, Tr. doppia, Clarino). It is unnecessary to seek for the origin of an instrument which was already familiar when the Mosaic books were written; at Jericho performed one of the earliest miracles; figured in the Hebrew ritual; preluded to the battles around Troy; is carved on the stone chronicles of Nineveh and Egypt; and for which China claims, in the form of the ‘Golden Horn
’ a far greater antiquity than these...
