The trumpet enjoys one of the most elaborate and colorful histories of any instrument. Early forms of the trumpet appear across many ancient cultures. The trumpet’s connotations differ from place to place and time to time. The development of the trumpet is an interaction of music, culture and technology. The interaction of these aspects is not straightforward. Sometimes they working in cooperation, other times in competition. These aspects tend to balance (or counter balance) each other, but ultimately they produced a virtuoso instrument: the modern trumpet.