What kind of cornet do you play in a brass band?
Since 1986 I have played the E flat soprano cornet and recently moved to B flat cornet with the Eastern Iowa Brass Band. Brass Bands use cornets as well as flugel, tenor horns, baritones, euphoniums, E flat and B flat tubas with only the trombone as a cylindrical instrument.
Why are the trumpet and the cornet the same instrument?
Making the selection between a trumpet and a cornet should be made for the same reason. One instrument does a job that the other can not. Some might argue that they are the same instrument and that might be the real reason there is so much confusion and argument over the importance and use of each instrument.
Why did Louis Armstrong switch from cornet to trumpet?
I asked a jazz historian one time, why Louis Armstrong made the switch from cornet to trumpet. His answer was that in the early days of record-making, the warm sound of cornets did not record as well as trumpets, which sounded brighter and sharper.
What kind of mouthpiece does a cornet have?
With traditional funnel-shaped mouthpieces they were still fairly mellow, though not as gentle and mellow as a shepherd’s crook cornet with the same funnel mouthpiece.
Since 1986 I have played the E flat soprano cornet and recently moved to B flat cornet with the Eastern Iowa Brass Band. Brass Bands use cornets as well as flugel, tenor horns, baritones, euphoniums, E flat and B flat tubas with only the trombone as a cylindrical instrument.
Making the selection between a trumpet and a cornet should be made for the same reason. One instrument does a job that the other can not. Some might argue that they are the same instrument and that might be the real reason there is so much confusion and argument over the importance and use of each instrument.
I asked a jazz historian one time, why Louis Armstrong made the switch from cornet to trumpet. His answer was that in the early days of record-making, the warm sound of cornets did not record as well as trumpets, which sounded brighter and sharper.
With traditional funnel-shaped mouthpieces they were still fairly mellow, though not as gentle and mellow as a shepherd’s crook cornet with the same funnel mouthpiece.
