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  • A trumpet's shape and the length of its tubing determines its tonal qualities.

    Piston Trumpet Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2010

  • And if I discover any plot amongst them, thou shalt fully hear thereof, and at the council-board shalt learn our will; but in case they be starting off in flight, with cager ear await the trumpet's call, for then I will not stay, but will this very night engage the Argive host there where their ships are hauled up.

    Rhesus 2008

  • And if I discover any plot amongst them, thou shalt fully hear thereof, and at the council-board shalt learn our will; but in case they be starting off in flight, with cager ear await the trumpet's call, for then I will not stay, but will this very night engage the Argive host there where their ships are hauled up.

    Rhesus 2008

  • The trumpet's call is now heard in almost every form, even something called ` fourth-world music. '

    'Fourth World' Music from Hassell's 'Maarifa Street' 2005

  • Mr. HASSELL: Well, the -- you know, a trumpet's a lonely instrument and a harmonizer digitally reconstructs the sound of the -- whatever you're putting into it at another interval.

    'Fourth World' Music from Hassell's 'Maarifa Street' 2005

  • Smack-dab in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, the gray stone house had been built on seven acres bordering the forest more than eighty years before by Abram's father, the revered Bishop Ebersol, who now slumbered in his grave, awaiting the trumpet's call.

    Covenant Lewis, Beverly 2002

  • Glory calls us With trumpet's tongue, calls us do great deeds on the field of valor, calls us to give our blood to the flame, to the ground, the thirsty ground, the holy fire.

    Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

  • As the war shout rises proudly o'er the trumpet's blair

    Michael Dwyer 1999

  • And the trumpet's loud note it can rest for a while

    Laurel Hill 1997

  • They were edging backwards, looking for escape, and then, out of the north where they had been half hidden by the red-blossomed trees, the British and Indian cavalry charged to the sound of a trumpet's call.

    Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

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