As the search for sound continued, people began to try and make instruments out of brass and gold. The first of such instruments made were quite simply long, hollow pipes with bells on the end of them. Trumpets like these have been found in cultures as far back as ancient Egypt. The Hebrew hasora, Roman tuba, and Greek salphinx all were ancient trumpet types that resembled the Egyptian's model. Later on down the line, Europeans constructed the same type of trumpets that their predecessors had, but they dubbed theirs the buisine.

By 1300, the busine had been replaced with a shorter version. People liked the flashy sound that trumpets produced and used them to announce important people coming with the use of a resounding fanfare. The only problem was that these fanfares were bound to the harmonics that the horns could produce and became pretty repetitive.