Peter Name wrote:

>I am not sure what you are refewrring to, but in the Brandenburg No. 2,
>there is the piccolo trumpet --- very high & brilliant-sounding as the name
>would imply.

Isn't it actually a natural trumpet in F? This has a much more mellow and
flutelike sound, rather than "brilliant", although piccolo trumpets are
used in most modern recordings.  Piccolo trumpets were surely not invented
in Bach's time!

Cheers
Ed.