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(Ger. Bachtrompete) A misnomer still prevalent in German-speaking countries for any high Trumpet used in modern performances of Baroque music. Originally, the term was applied to a straight trumpet in A (a 5th higher than the Baroque trumpet in D and a semitone lower than the modern B♭ trumpet) with two valves; such an instrument was first employed by the Berlin trumpeter Julius Kosleck in September 1884 in Eisenach. He also played it on 21 March 1885 in a historic performance of Bach’s Mass in B minor at the Royal Albert Hall in London, with Walter Morrow and John Solomon playing the second and third parts on normal instruments. Kosleck’s trumpet was described as being in B♭/A and possessing a posthorn (conical) bore. Its mouthpiece was also deeply conical. Morrow and Solomon immediately had such instruments made (they were apparently imported by Silvani & Smith from France), although theirs had the standard cylindro-conical trumpet bore and were played with a normal trumpet mouthpiece. Morrow first employed his at the ...