Real recorded trumpet notes on a piano keyboard: click, touch or type, and the trumpet answers. The trumpet is the highest and brightest of the brass, the instrument of fanfares and jazz solos. Free, nothing to install, with note names, your computer keyboard and a metronome.
Recorded notes, the trumpet's own range, and the keyboard you already know.
Every key plays a recording of a real trumpet: 11 notes from F3 to C6, each key pitched from the nearest one. The trumpet is brass instrument with three valves: the player's lips buzz into a cup-shaped mouthpiece; three piston valves add lengths of tubing to reach every note of the scale.
The keyboard covers F#3 to C6, where the recordings sound natural; a real trumpet plays E3 to about C6 (B-flat trumpet, sounding). Use the octave arrows to move, and More keys on a wide screen.
Play the notes of a C major chord - C, E, G, C - in a quick dotted rhythm for an instant fanfare. The note sounds as long as you hold the key, like a bow or a breath.
Famous trumpet music: Haydn, Trumpet Concerto in E-flat; Clarke, Trumpet Voluntary (Prince of Denmark's March); Jazz: Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis. Pick out a melody by ear on the keyboard above.
Click or touch a key. The first note starts the sound; the trumpet recordings for the visible keys load in the background.
A S D F G H J K L play the white keys, W E T Y U O P the black ones (Q and Z on AZERTY). Z and X move an octave (W and X on AZERTY).
Set Labels to C D E or Do Ré Mi to see every note name, or to Keys to see your own keyboard letters.
Turn on the metronome and play along. Then try the same melody on the trombone or the piano.
| Type | Sampled trumpet, playable on this page, free |
|---|---|
| Family | Brass - brass instrument with three valves |
| Samples | 11 recorded notes, F3 to C6 |
| Range here | F#3 to C6 |
| Real range | E3 to about C6 (B-flat trumpet, sounding) |
| Notation | Treble clef, written a whole step higher than it sounds |
| Controls | Labels, octave arrows, More keys and a metronome |
| Computer keyboard | Ableton layout by key position - QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ |
| Credits | Trumpet samples from tonejs-instruments by Nicholas Brosowsky, CC BY 3.0 - see credits |
| Requirements | Any modern browser with Web Audio - Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari |
Most online instruments are a synthesiser with a picture on top. This one plays recordings of a real trumpet, so the attack, the tone and the decay are the instrument's own. The trumpet is the highest and brightest of the brass, the instrument of fanfares and jazz solos.
Natural trumpets without valves served armies and courts for centuries and could only play the notes of one harmonic series. Valves, invented around 1815, made the trumpet fully chromatic.
A real trumpet is written in treble clef, written a whole step higher than it sounds. The keyboard here plays the sounding notes, so a melody you find by ear is the melody you hear. To go further, the free sheet music and chord pages work with any instrument you can read music on.
Yes. Every key plays a recording of a real trumpet - 11 notes from F3 to C6 - pitched to the nearest key. The recordings come from the tonejs-instruments library, under a Creative Commons licence.
Yes. The middle row of letters plays the white keys and the row above it the black keys, by key position, so it works the same on QWERTY, AZERTY and QWERTZ keyboards. Set Labels to Keys to see the letters on the keys.
A trumpet plays E3 to about C6 (B-flat trumpet, sounding). On this page the keyboard goes from F#3 to C6, where the recordings sound natural.
Haydn, Trumpet Concerto in E-flat; Clarke, Trumpet Voluntary (Prince of Denmark's March); Jazz: Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis.
Yes, free with no account and nothing to install. It runs in any modern browser, on a computer, a tablet or a phone.
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