Ambrose Akinmusire - My favorite Jazz track these days...

The flugelhorn is built in the same B♭ pitch as many trumpets and cornets. It usually has three piston valves and employs the same fingering system as other brass instruments, but four piston valve and rotary valve variants also exist. It can thus be played without too much trouble by trumpet and cornet players, though some adaptation to their playing style may be needed. It is usually played with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than either trumpets or cornets (though not as conical as a horn mouthpiece).

Some modern flugelhorns are built with a fourth valve, which takes them down in pitch a perfect fourth (similar to the fourth valve sometimes found on euphoniums, tubas, horns and piccolo trumpets, as well as the trigger on trombones). This adds a useful area of low range which, when coupled with the flugelhorn's dark sound, gives an interesting extension to the instrument's abilities. More often, however, the fourth valve is used in place of the first and third valve combination, which is somewhat sharp (which is compensated for on trumpets and cornets and some three-valve flugelhorns by a slide for the first or third valve).

Niki wrote:I just love that tune...very beautiful! I read an interview with Ambrose where he says he had stickers on the wall which should remind him every day of one of his goals - "to make the trumpet sound like a flugelhorn"! I'm pretty sure thats a trumpet although it sounds "smooth as silk" Suss! Cool you dig that!
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Niki

I read an interview with Ambrose where he says he had stickers on the wall which should remind him every day of one of his goals - "to make the trumpet sound like a flugelhorn"

D. Slam wrote:

I read an interview with Ambrose where he says he had stickers on the wall which should remind him every day of one of his goals - "to make the trumpet sound like a flugelhorn"

You know, they already have an instrument that'll do that on it's own.... It's called a flugelhorn!!!