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The flugelhorn (/ ˈfluːɡəlhɔːrn /), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. [1] Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B ♭, though some are in C. [2] It is a type of valved bugle, developed in Germany in the ...
Flugelhorn, cornet, trumpet, bass guitar, keyboards, percussion. Years active. 1960s–present. Dick Cuthell is a British musician and record producer. He plays flugelhorn, cornet, and trumpet, amongst a range of other brass instruments, including tenor horn and valve trombone. Cuthell is best known for his work with The Specials [1][2] and ...
Soprano helicon. The soprano helicon (in E ♭) is a coiled brass instrument from the helicon family. The design of the modern soprano helicon takes acoustical advantage of the helicon's easy blowing, but is not simply another circular petite bugle or soprano cornet. The helicon clearly has a larger bore and wider tapered conical tube with a ...
The cornet (/ ˈkɔːrnɪt /, [ 1 ] US: / kɔːrˈnɛt /) is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B ♭. There is also a soprano cornet in E ♭ and cornets in A and C.
A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Brass instruments are also called labrosones[ 1 ] or labrophones, from Latin and Greek elements meaning 'lip' and 'sound'.
The cornett (Italian: cornetto, German: Zink) is a lip-reed wind instrument that dates from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, popular from 1500 to 1650. [ 9 ] Although smaller and larger sizes were made in both straight and curved forms, surviving cornetts are mostly curved, built in the treble size from 51 to 63 cm (20 to 25 in ...
Cornettino. The cornettino (Italian, plural cornettini; German: Diskant Zink, Quart-Zink) is the small descant instrument of the cornett family of lip-reed wind instruments, a fourth or fifth higher than the larger, more common treble cornett. Cornettini were built in two sizes, usually described as in D or C, although the note sounded with all ...
Musical artist. Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC(14 January 1930 – 18 September 2014) was a Canadian composerand trumpet and flugelhornplayer, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards. [1][2][3][4] Most of his performances were rooted in jazz, but he was also active in free improvisationand occasionally contributed to rock musicrecordings.