Trumpet vs. Shofar — What's the Difference?

The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet with the highest register in the brass family, to the bass trumpet, which is pitched one octave below the standard B♭ or C Trumpet.

A shofar ( shoh-FAR; from Hebrew: שׁוֹפָר, pronounced [ʃoˈfaʁ] (listen)) is an ancient musical horn typically made of a ram's horn, used for Jewish religious purposes. Like the modern bugle, the shofar lacks pitch-altering devices, with all pitch control done by varying the player's embouchure.

(Music) A soprano brass instrument consisting of a long metal tube looped once and ending in a flared bell, the modern type being equipped with three valves for producing variations in pitch.

A trumpet made of a ram's horn, blown by the ancient Hebrews during religious ceremonies and as a signal in battle, now sounded in the synagogue during Rosh Hashanah and at the end of Yom Kippur.

Something shaped or sounding like this instrument.

(Judaism) A ram’s-horn trumpet

(Music) An organ stop that produces a tone like that of the brass instrument.

An ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram; used in ancient times by the Israelites to sound a warning or a summons; used in synagogues today on solemn occasions

A resounding call, as that of the elephant.

(Music) To play a trumpet.

To give forth a resounding call.

To sound or proclaim loudly.

A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.

Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.

The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.

(figurative) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.

A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.

A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.

Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.

A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.

(intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified

(intransitive) To play the trumpet.

(ambitransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.

(ambitransitive) To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.

(transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically

A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.

A trumpeter.

One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.

A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.

To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.

To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.

A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

Proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet;

Play or blow on the trumpet

Utter in trumpet-like sounds;