Talk:Flugelhorn

message: Hi, what is the abbr for flugelhorn? flg? flghorn? greetz, FAThomssen 19:06, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure - I have seen flg or flug used, but I am not sure what is "official". 138.37.199.199 13:29, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

text: In Finale Notation Software, the abbreviation used is Flghn.  Lots of letters.  Kilobytezero 17:01, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Flugelhorn abbreviation

message: Although I admire the bluff in a way, it's really not that hard to look things up in the OED.  The odd thing was not that there isn't any mention of Thomas Crapper in the flugelhorn entry, it's that there is no flugelhorn entry. RHD2 has an entry for flugelhorn, which is unsurprisingly Crapperless.--NapoliRoma 00:56, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Tom Crapper and His Hydroscatic Flugelhorn'' 

message: The "Musical tone" section of this article currently includes this sentence: "The flugelhorn is the melody-instrument of a fanfare-orchestra.". What is a "fanfare-orchestra"? TheScotch (talk) 06:49, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I deleted the sentence. It can come back (maybe) if we get a satisfactory explanation here. TheScotch (talk) 18:39, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I heard a radio DJ use that term once in connection to a Leroy Anderson piece. But I seriously doubt it's either in common use or even jargon among brass players. Willi Gers07 (talk) 19:19, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fanfare-orchestra? 

message: Re: "Flugelhorns have occasionally been used as the alto or low soprano voice in a drum and bugle corps. This is increasingly rare, however, as the mellophone, with its larger bell, is more often picked to mimic the sound of a horn.":
This may very well be true denotatively, but I object to the implication that a flugelhorn is a sort of poor man's (French) horn. It so happens that the horn's best range for playing melodies is about an octave below the flugelhorn's, which gives the two instruments significantly different functions (despite the circumstance of the flugelhorn approaching the timbre of the horn--from the trumpet side) and one cannot adequately be exchanged for the other. It is not the flugelhorn's function to "mimic the sound of a horn". TheScotch (talk) 16:07, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the last clause. (The mellophone's range, unlike that of the flugelhorn, is, apparently, approximately the same as the horn's.) TheScotch (talk) 16:19, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flugelhorn v. Horn 

message: The translation of the German name as 'winged horn' is incorrect (that would be: 'geflügeltes Horn'). 'Wing Horn' (or 'Flank Horn') is more accurate. Sejtam (talk) 07:39, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  German 

message: The FlÜgelhorn is standard in Austrian military bands,
whereas German bands only have trumpets in this place. 
(One of the two differences, the other is the Helicon 
in Austrian bands)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.221.209.200 (talk) 12:23, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military  bands 

message: Paul McCartney played flugelhorn? I suspect it's more likely that he held one for a promotional photo. 
MarkinBoston (talk) 15:43, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Macca? 

message: I'm going to be working on this article over the next few days, hopefully making some good recordings in the process (the current ones I made are rather crude). My overall goal is to get it to GA status. Ovinus (talk) 19:15, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intended revamp 

message: In Serbia the Fluegelhorn is widely used as the principle instrument in their folk brass bands.  See the Guca Festival of trumpet players.  The Guca festival is a competition of folk brass bands and attracts hundreds of thousands of spectators every year in August. Kharstin (talk) 15:58, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serbian Fluegelhorn Use 

message: Note that the modern German instrument comes with a trumpet sized shank.  They seem to use straight up trumpet mouthpieces that perhaps have a slightly deeper and conical cup. Kharstin (talk) 16:02, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mouthpieces 

message: The following sentence has been removed:
Reasoning, most of which should be preceded by "in my opinion":
* A request for a citation seems to have been there for 6 years
* The topic seems out of place in an encyclopedia. Who cares besides flugelhorn players seeking mouthpieces?
* The sentence seems low on meaning, like saying "An adult is similar in height to a Wikipedia editor's height". Sure, all the dimensions of most trumpet, cornet, and flugelhorn mouthpieces are about the same size, so I guess the sentence is true. But even if you know the size of a cornet mouthpiece shank, you learn little.
* Flugelhorn mouthpiece shanks vary in their dimensions to an extent that is painful for anyone trying to choose a mouthpiece. A web search will show lots of moaning like this page
DavidHolmes0 (talk) 14:39, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed sentence on shank size 

message: It would be great if someone improved the example recordings for the comparison of "Flugelhorn excerpt" versus "B♭ trumpet playing the same excerpt". The timbres on these two recordings sound identical to me, whereas listening to players live usually makes a difference apparent.
I have deep respect for the original contributor. The idea of recordings was great, since recordings stand to help visitors to the page far beyond what can be achieved in text. The 36-second length seems ideal. The musicianship of the playing is enviable. Providing those recordings must have taken serious work (It would have taken me hours even if I could play that well, which I can't). For all those reasons, I hope someone can take the original contributor's ideas and fly with them.
DavidHolmes0 (talk) 15:05, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  improve comparison recordings?