Options are available. Contact the factory for details. Commentary String instruments, bassoons and many other instruments have not changed one iota in centuries. Meantime buildings had grown larger. Life had grown fuller, more colorful.
Instrumental tones are to the musician as colors to the painter.
Just as a painter uses contrast, blend, light, shade, so does the scorer of music. Its characteristic tone cannot be mistaken for that of any other trumpet, yet it blends beautifully with sections of trumpets , other brasses and wood-winds. It sings, sobs, laughs, jokes, complains, grumbles, and dreams. It is a great filler, stabilizer, and soloist.