Which Flugel Horn Is The Best?

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While trying to complete my coverage of the flugel horn, I decided to see what typical trumpet/flugel horn players say about the many instruments available on the market today. I have included only the material found on one site in a span of two weeks- “The Yamaha Flugels are great all around flugels”. …”the Adams line. I truly believe they are making hands down the best flugelhorns and also the most diverse flugelhorns in the world”. “I play quite a bit of flugel and I sold my Couesnon when I got the V1 (Conn). I also played as many other…

High Range Methods- Traditional

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I will group the “Old School” approach to improving high range as any method using traditional methods which would include improvement one half-step at a time over a period with constant repetition. The highest note in the entire Arban Method is only a high C. Did you ever wonder why this appened.? Why was such a popular and authoritative work so limiting in the upper register? I’m not sure anyone would have the real reason for many factors affected the material at that period of time. It is interesting to read the review of  Arban’s material when he submitted it…

High Range Methods- Pedal Tones

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The use of pedal tones is like eating Chinese food; you either love it or hate it. I’m not sure who should be given credit for the use of pedal tones but my guess would be that it had something to do with playing the Circus. If you have ever played the circus, and I am speaking of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey circus, you know what I am talking about. I’m sure that there are trumpet players around who enjoyed the experience and I am also confident that those players also enjoy have a root canal done on…

High Range Trumpet Methods- Introduction

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One of the most asked questions from students is this, “How can I learn to play high notes?” Seldom do players ask how they can improve their tone, endurance or any of the equally important areas of development. While giving clinics both with the faculty brass quintet as well as individual clinics, I have often been asked, “How high can you play?” My answer to that question was usually “I can play one note higher than I am asked to play”. Although they seldom understood what I meant by the statement, my response did answer the question. I have never…

Best Valve Oil- Part 2

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Well, I tried it and I do not like it. Some valve oils will give your fast valves but the consistency of the oil sometimes disperses the oil so fast that the oil does not give you long lasting fast valves. That is what this oil does. I had to re-oil my valves every day in order to keep them working smoothly. So, I’m back again to my Al Cas valve oil which keeps the valves working smoothly for a much longer period.

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Buddy Bolden- The Movie

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First let me give you some adjectives which in my opinion describe this limited showing new film. Awful, demeaning, racially uncomfortable, sadistic, masochistic, dark, morbid, artistic (in a bad way), tiring, boring, confusing, creepy, erotic, brutal, suggestive, irritating, inaccurate, uninspired,  irritating, sickening, unfocused, meandering, uninformative, endless……………. Now that I have given my opinion on this disappointing film, I will give some of the many examples which brought me to this conclusion. As soon as I heard that they had done a film about Buddy Bolden and that Wynton Marsalis was involved with the music for the film, I had great…

Welcome To The Brave New World Of Jazz Improvisation

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As technology continues to advance, long time problems seem to disappear. Check out …… irealpro.com In the beginning, we had to call up some friends in order to practice the art of improvisation. Then we were privileged to the Jamey Aebersold series of “LPs”. Soon the digital age took over and we could simply toss in a CD to practice. How far can we go in this never ending quest for perfection? This might be as far as we “need” to go! The advanced features of this Ap far exceeds anything available up to this time. Check out all these…

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Product Review- Hawk Flugelhorn with Case

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12 Best Flugelhorn Reviews and the Best Flugel horn Brands And now for my review of this instrument. Based on a 5* rating Materials- **** Workmanship- **** Finish- ***** Mechanics- *** Valves- *** Weight- *** Feel- *** Response- *** Intonation- **** Threading on Valves and Valve caps- * Original Mouthpiece- * Case- * General comments- • 3 water keys (1st water key did not work because the spring was installed incorrectly) • 3rd valve slide spring loaded compensator works very well • The instrument feels very light which might be the reason it sounds more on the bright side. •…

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Product Review- Hawk Flugelhorn with Case

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In order to keep our readers up to date on new products and new ideas, we try to get our hands on products for review and evaluation and this is one of those cases. A good friend and fellow musician recently purchased a new Hawk Flugelhorn and I asked to borrow it for a while so I could run it through some scales to see if this instrument was really worth the $279.00- $333.95 price tag. Before I give you my reading of the instrument, I want to first share with you actual customers opinions on their recent purchase of…

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