Hi Dan. As Mario says, I use the trumpet fingering. Mario is the one who's getting me started on the EWI. of course to me, it's a lot harder to play than the trumpet. I doubt that I'll be playing any trumpet stuff on it since I bought it to be able to play other instruments such as strings. I'm just an amateur musician having fun. My wife and I like the old standards so that's what we mostly play on our gigs. We mostly play the "old" pop style.

I use both my flugelhorn and cornet for bossa because I like the more mellow tone. Matt Finley is really great on flugel and also flute on his bossa recordings. He has a really nice feeling for bossa, IMO. Yes, there are some nice bossa real tracks.

As to the difference in sound between the trumpet, cornet, and flugel, the difference with the flugel is quite pronounced, IMO. For notes in and below the staff, this difference is easily heard. Above the staff it's still there but not as marked. The difference between the cornet and trumpet is that the cornet is both more mellow and "darker/warm". These real instruments are fairly easy to distinguish. Of course, with the right mouthpiece, you can make a trumpet sound real close to a cornet. In fact, I have a trumpet mp model named "TF" (trumpet flugel). It has a long deep funnel shaped cup and produces a very dark tone--still not a flugel tone though. With a shallow cornet mouthpiece, a cornet can sound very close to a trumpet. I don't really know anything about samplemodeling, but the sound between the trumpet and cornet should be very noticeable. Maybe I'm too critical, but so far I haven't heard any hardware and/or software synths that produce a trumpet sound that impresses me in a big way. Of course, I don't own or have access to any of the really expensive stuff either. Just sayin........

Stan

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