wallyns10
66 posts
Oct 30, 2009
5:26 PM
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I know this doesn't have anything to do with harmonica but I just figured I'd see if any one here knows about transposition. I'm writing a piano piece in D minor and want to write a flugelhorn part for it. Flugelhorn is a Bb horn...so would I write the part in E minor? I think you transpose up a step for a Bb instrument but not entirely sure
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Andrew
702 posts
Oct 30, 2009
6:03 PM
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E minor is correct. It's called a Bb horn because when it plays a C as written, it comes out as Bb, i.e. a tone lower than written.
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Bollocks, Wiglaf!
Last Edited by on Oct 30, 2009 6:04 PM
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wallyns10
67 posts
Oct 31, 2009
5:08 AM
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Nice, thanks Andrew
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Bluzdude46
250 posts
Nov 03, 2009
12:45 PM
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Nice.... But what the hell is a Flugelhorn?
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barbequebob
30 posts
Nov 03, 2009
12:52 PM
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It's similar to a trumpet, but different.
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jawbone
152 posts
Nov 03, 2009
1:47 PM
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It is shorter, rounder, bigger diameter tubes than a trumpet. Jeepers, it sounds like I just described what has happened to me over the years!!! It has a mellower sound than the brassyness of the trumpet, more haunting. Chuck Mangioni usually played a flugel horn, I believe.
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wallyns10
71 posts
Nov 03, 2009
2:33 PM
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its in the tuba family, it would be basically a soprano tuba...or like a combo tuba/coronet if you want to think of it like that.
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Andrew
717 posts
Nov 03, 2009
2:36 PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flugelhorn
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