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By the way, is that a bass trumpet you're playing in your avatar? I play, among other things, an Eb horn--we call them tenor horns here in UK, but I believe they're known as altos in the US. D



That's a flugelhorn, Bb, built by SEG that was originally designed for use in Drum and Bugle Corps.

Has a huge bell and bore, I "appropriated" it from the marching field guys to use in jazz work because I dug the distinctive low end of the thing, plus its inherent loudness makes it easy to play softly on it all night long.

The newness of that situation has worn off, though and I'm not using it all that much of late.
For Flugel work I lean mostly on my good old prewar Bach Flugel. That SEG is indeed much more like a bass trumpet in range and sound. High notes on it are a real feat to obtain due to the huge conical bore and bell. It has its moments down within the octave, though. And I sometimes use a French Horn mouthpiece on it in the studio, looking for a "signature" sound, as it were.

That shot was taken backstage at the Norfolk Jazz Festival several or more years ago, warming up. Juggling Flugel, Trumpet, Keyboards and Guitar, don't ever want to work that hard at one band again said the grumpy old fart.


--Mac

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