Bfb BAROQUE User manual
WARRANTY INFORMATION
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workmanship for the BFB Baroque™. This warranty coverage is provided solely for original
owners of products purchased at licensed Brass
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TUNING THE VENTED YARD
Be sure to set your tuner to the correct key and calibration before you
start. After checking pitch tendencies with the non-vented yard, insert the
vented yard, 4th vent towards the front crook, and try the follwing:
1. First set the position of the main tuning slide: check to see that C below
the staff, as well as G & C in the staff, are within 10 cents of accuracy.
2. Play C, E, or G at top of staff, comparing pitch with 4th vent closed and
open. If pitch is lower when vented, shift the yard towards the front crook.
3. Play a C scale at top of staff using 1st vent for D and F natural. Shift
the yard so that F doesn’t sound too high and D doesn’t sound too low.
CARE AND MAINTENANCE
How to Empty Water
After a playing for a while, water will accumulate in the front crook
1. Remove mouthpiece
2. Rotate trumpet from rear to front and empty water out of the leadpipe
3. Or, hold instrument horizontally and blow water out of the ventholes
How to Clean
1. Disassemble trumpet and snake out all parts with warm soapy water
3. Dry all parts with towel
4. Grease tuning slide and ends of yards, and reassemble trumpet
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Vent #: 3 (4) (1) (4) 1 2 (4) 3 (1) (2) (4) (4)
(1/2 )
(Fingerings in parentheses are optional)
4-HOLE FINGERING CHART
Harmonic Series of the Natural
Trumpet in C
your BFB Baroque™
Watch video tutorials at: www.brassforbeginners.com/pages/bfb-baroque
Rear Crook Front Crook
4-Hole Vented Yard
Rear Locking Bit
PARTS OF THE BFB BAROQUE™
Tuning Slide & Locking Bit
Vent No: 1 2 3 4
Finger Placement: Thumb Index Middle 4th (ring) or 5th
(pinky/little)nger
ABOUT
The BfB Baroque™ was created to provide an accessible and affordable
option for learning the natural trumpet. It is not intended to replace an
authentic replica of a natural trumpet, but rather to serve as a stepping-
stone.
Learning a historical instrument can open up the world of early music for
trumpeters at all stages of development. A rst-hand experience of the
natural trumpet’s sonic characteristics and techniques—coupled together
with an understanding of its unique role in both human history and music
history—can inspire a deeper and more meaningful experience when
performing trumpet repertoire from the Renaissance to the present.
Harmonic Series with 4th Vent (Modern Tpt in C)
Harmonic Series with 2nd or 3rd Vents (Tpt in B)
Harmonic Series with 1st Vent (Tpt in Bb)
*Partials
Itisimportanttorstlearnthepitchtendenciesoftheharmonicseriesby
playing the instrument with the non-vented yard, as a natural trumpet.
Listen to where the notes sit and learn to focus and center the sound on
each partial before trying to play with a vented yard.
HOW THE 4-HOLE SYSTEM WORKS: Venting (uncovering) the 4th hole
cuts the length of the trumpet in half, shifting the harmonic series up an
octave (indicated by gray arrows). The remaining vents shift the harmonic
series down by two additional half steps (indicated by red arrows).
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