Talk:Tromba marina

Its use in German convents
The only supporting evidence handy at the moment is:


 * The wind instruments must have their human bellows, but these being weak, the marine trumpet became a substitute for the horn, and every German cloister was furnished with, and employed, a nonnen-trompett or nonnen geige. Until almost the end of the eighteenth century, this quaint custom continued, after which the nuns apparently grew bolder and fearlessly attacked double-basses and violoncellos and whole orchestras of instruments.

Olga RACSTER, _Chats on Big and Little Fiddles_ Frederick A. Stokes, NY 1922

I have no way to assess its reliability, but no particular reason to doubt it. Just plain Bill 13:28, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Merge from Tromba Marina
Definitely merge, it's the same name in a different language. —Keenan Pepper 00:05, 21 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Merged. I put the main page here because it was the first name used in the article, as well as both external links. I had to do a fair bit of editing to deal with both articles (which covered different areas). Feel free to move anything around or correct things, as I'm not an expert on this subject. For historical versions (including the 1911 text), view Tromba Marina and Trumpet marine. I copied this talk page from Trumpet marine. Rigadoun 18:46, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Infobox
Discussion of the infobox that just showed up is at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musical Instruments. __Just plain Bill (talk) 23:46, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Cofounder someone add at least a sentence or two about its sound? I will add an image to Commons.
See subject. Shlishke (talk) 17:00, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

More information needed
The introductory information says that the instrument is played "without stopping the string", but the History section mentions eleven frets by name. If the string is not stopped, why would there be frets?

Also, what is the range of the instrument? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.249 (talk) 22:51, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Etymology
To add to article: does the English name of the instrument come from Italian, and what does the "marina" mean? 173.88.241.33 (talk) 08:31, 25 November 2016 (UTC)