Thanks for this video demonstration and for using the same mouthpiece to isolate most of the tone definition to the instrument. This is exactly what I was searching for.
Hey Gordon, fantastic demonstration mate. Nice to hear the Louis solo of Wild Man Blues. Louis was the king! So glad I found your channel mate. Cheers and 73! Simon
IMHO - You have the best demo of those 3 desired instruments (I play a silver pocket Jupiter and wishes for a bigger instrument to play better with less air pressure). Many thanks for sharing, I'm a fan :)
I have to say I am quite puzzled why the trumpet is the main instrument in the orchestra while the flugelhorn, which sounds like it continues the range of the (French) horn upward, has no use at all. Considering the refined sounds classical music tends to prefer, this seems like a huge oversight. They all have their place but it seems like the cornet is a very nice compromise. Personally I find the trumpet too strident and don't particularly care for it. Are the fingerings the same (i.e., if you play trumpet, can you play the other two exactly the same way)? Great comparison anyway.
@@MaestroTJS Same here in the UK but we tend to use Bb trumpet. US orchestras play C trumpet which is a bit brighter. Vaughan Williams used flugelhorn in some of his symphonies, but he also wrote separate trumpet and cornet parts so he had both in his orchestras. That stooped by the late 30s.
@@GordonHudson Thanks for your insights. Yeah, I have heard the C trumpet has displaced the Bb more and more as time has gone on for whatever reason. I did not know that about V.W. but I can see him making good use of them.
My cornet sounds like your trumpet. The same mouthpiece you use for the trumpet is a bit too deep to sound like a trumpet it's way to soft and mellow . Still your presentation is a good one . Actually It shows how much a mouthpiece can effect the general timbre of the instrument .
I personally absolutely love the flugelhorn. It makes for a great jazz soloing instrument, it's brass so it punches through but because it's a flugel it doesn't have this pierce to it like the trumpet does so I feel like it's a lot easier to control.
I have no idea how i got here, i don't even play an instrument.. But i do like big band jazz... Anyway, that was entertaining - i did find it interesting thanks :)
My ears must flop over because except for the flugelhorn being a little mellower, I can’t tell the difference between the three of them at all. Thanks for the exhibition though, it was enlightening.
Flip Oaks X3X which is a very deep V shaped cornet mouthpiece. I happened to have a flugel that takes a cornet shank so it was easy to do this demonstration.
I think, in elementary & middle school bands the trumpet's brightness only emphasizes the errors and weaker embouchure of the student players. The Cornet and Flugelhorn provide more fundamental pitch and thus blend better.
Flugelhorn jazz listen to Jerry Gonzalez Calle 54 here on RU-vid 1st couple mins then more solo starting around 4:40 (watch the whole video), Great jazz instrument. I heard that most early jazz was on the cornet.
I think it depends on the flugelhorn. I play a Courtois now and it has a really easy upper register. Mouthpiece choice affects playability too. FLugelhorns generally are a bit more fiddly to get right.
