Klarinet Archive - Posting 001273.txt from 1999/01

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] HELP!
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:27:59 -0500

On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Roger Shilcock wrote:

> Wasn't Bolden a *cornet* player? Armstrong started on the the cornet,
> I think, as did Keppard. How much this matters, I don't know.

Yes, and some of these players switched back and forth between the cornet
and trumpet. Sometimes, players informally used the terms cornet and
trumpet almost interchangably. Non-musicians often can't tell the
difference between the two instruments. Like many other musicians,
Armstrong began on the cornet in part because that was the instrument that
was available to him. The cornet was the preferred instrument of the
military bands and street bands of that era, so it existed in greater
numbers than the trumpet.

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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