Use in Brass Instruments
In the context of brass instruments, rotary valves are found on horns, trumpets, trombones, flugelhorns, and tubas. Many European trumpet players tend to favor rotary valves.
Trombone F-attachment valves are usually rotary, with several variations on the basic design also in use, such as the Thayer axial-flow valve and Hagmann valve.
Joseph Riedlin is credited with the first use of rotary valves on brass instruments in 1832.
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