Trumpet videos

[DonH50]

Sax can sound like a trumpet, can't it?

Don't make me report you to the (trumpet) authorities...

 

[stehno]

Don't make me report you to the (trumpet) authorities...

I guess the jig is up. Surely you can't report me for this!!!

 

[bonzo75]

Sax, Kenny Burrell midnight blue on Altec 817

 

[APP]

A One Microphone recording perfect for phase coherence;

Just discovered this at the Sound Liaison sale. This girl can really play the trumpet. And isn't St. James the foremost of all trumpet ballads?

 

[Aries Cerat]

Not a trumpet but I thought I would share some analog testing of this week.Still brass though

 

[morricab]

Alison Balsam...probably the best female trumpeteer alive today

 

[morricab]

A One Microphone recording perfect for phase coherence;

Just discovered this at the Sound Liaison sale. This girl can really play the trumpet. And isn't St. James the foremost of all trumpet ballads?

Do you know if it is mono or a stereo microphone?

 

[morricab]

Wynton Marsalis live at the House of Tribes.

 

[morricab]

More Alison Balsam

 

[morricab]

Not a trumpet but I thought I would share some analog testing of this week.Still brass though

WHich amps?

 

[Aries Cerat]

WHich amps?

Essentia, Ianus Series

 

[stehno]

 

[bonzo75]

Leif's system with digital

 

[Tango]

Leif's system with digital

Comforting sound.

 

[stehno]

I'm quite certain there's a trumpet in here.

 

[PeterA]

The Carla White/Manny Duran Band: Sonics are better through YouTube, IMO.

 

[APP]

Do you know if it is mono or a stereo microphone?

It's a 3 capsule microphone. Joe Whip wrote a whole article about the recording process here; Sound Liaison - One Mic Recording

 

[stehno]

A flugel horn is almost a trumpet. Or is a trumpet almost a flugel horn?

 

[DonH50]

A flugelhorn has a much "darker" sound than a trumpet. We sometimes call it a baby trombone or baby French horn. Whilst modern designs have diverged, the old rule in terms of tubing if you think of cylindrical as "straight tubing" and picture it laid out as a single long tube and visualize the conical flare as the opening of a horn:

trumpet = 2/3 cylindrical, then 1/3 conical (flared, up to the final bell flare)
cornet = 1/3 cylindrical, 2/3 conical
flugelhorn = all conical (it starts out small and gradually increases in size all the way through the bell flare)

All three are basically the same overlength (about 4'). Bell sizes are typically larger for flugelhorns, with cornets often having similar bell sizes as trumpets. IIRC my flugelhorn has a 6" bell (outer diameter at the opening) and my trumpets and cornets are 5" (my smaller trumpets, higher-pitched, have smaller bells, natch).

HTH - Don

p.s. Chuck is also a great trumpet player, and has a couple of jazz albums on which he plays trumpet instead. For flugelhorn, another well-known artist is Art Farmer (RIP).

edit: Old brain fart on cylindrical vs. conical, corrected.

 

[stehno]

A flugelhorn has a much "darker" sound than a trumpet. We sometimes call it a baby trombone or baby French horn. Whilst modern designs have diverged, the old rule in terms of tubing if you think of cylindrical as "straight tubing" and picture it laid out as a single long tube and visualize the conical flare as the opening of a horn:

trumpet = 2/3 cylindrical, then 1/3 conical (flared, up to the final bell flare)
cornet = 1/3 cylindrical, 2/3 conical
flugelhorn = all conical (it starts out small and gradually increases in size all the way through the bell flare)

All three are basically the same overlength (about 4'). Bell sizes are typically larger for flugelhorns, with cornets often having similar bell sizes as trumpets. IIRC my flugelhorn has a 6" bell (outer diameter at the opening) and my trumpets and cornets are 5" (my smaller trumpets, higher-pitched, have smaller bells, natch).

HTH - Don

p.s. Chuck is also a great trumpet player, and has a couple of jazz albums on which he plays trumpet instead. For flugelhorn, another well-known artist is Art Farmer (RIP).

edit: Old brain fart on cylindrical vs. conical, corrected.

Thanks for clarifying once again, Don. I know nothing about musical instruments and to the best of my knowledge my only experience with a flugelhorn is with Chuck Mangione's album here. Though you say and it's purported that the flugelhorn is "darker" or warmer (and I'm not doubting you) but the way Chuck plays it here, to my less-experienced ears it actually sounds very much like a slightly tamed trumpet.

Anyway, thanks for the education.