Edward Breffit wrote:

>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!

Is the use of piccolo trumpets (of which I had not previously heard) the
reason that modern performances are less likely to sound out of tune as
they did in the 50s or are natural trumpet players simply more capable now
than then?

wm