Klarinet Archive - Posting 001344.txt from 2004/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Bug Music!
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:33:59 -0500

At 07:44 PM 3/23/2004 -0800, Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:
>Lynn wrote:
>
> > But the nice warm sound he gets is because
> > he plays a cornet (as compared to a trumpet)
>
>Do you attribute this to the cornet sound that he's accustomed to
>hearing, or do you attribute it to some aspect of cornet embouchure,
>etc?

The cornet's bore is slightly conical vs. the trumpet's straight
bore. This results in a slightly "warmer" sound. Taken to extremes, as in
the fluegelhorn, you get an even MORE mellow sound. I like to refer to the
fluegelhorn as a "cornet on steroids." Embouchurewise, trumpet and cornet
are absolutely identical. The relative popularity of trumpet and cornet
changes over time as taste and preference in sound changes. Trumpets
currently outsell cornets about 20 to 1 in the US, but all the big early
jazz stars, like Louis Armstrong, made their names playing cornets.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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