The Basse de trompette

Boyvin, in 1690, adds the prestant and nazard to the trompette; some, he says, prefer the bourdon to the nazard, “but the Bourdon slows it down”. Basses de trompette were also played with the tremblant à vent perdu.

Dom Bedos, in 1770, draws on the great organ the prestant, trompettes and clairons; on the positive, the two 8-foot stops, the doublette and the larigot. He condemns the tremblant fort, which mediocre organists always add while skilled ones never use it, because it disfigures the sound of the reeds. Another, more harmonious combination allows a dialogue imitating the bassoon on the cromorne, and the hunting horn or a trumpet call, a song of triumph, on the trompette.