Why do some Flugelhorns play flat?
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Re: Why do some Flugelhorns play flat?
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Re: Why do some Flugelhorns play flat?
Some of us in the United States have played a French concert band piece by Florent Schmitt which calls for four flugelhorns. I suspect there are quite a few more pieces like that written by European wind band composers of which most Americans (certainly myself) are completely ignorant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florent_Schmitt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florent_Schmitt
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Re: Why do some Flugelhorns play flat?
Thinking about it - and comparing these soprano tubas to euphoniums, bass tubas, and contrabass tubas, flat 8th and 9th partials are an extremely common characteristic of the bigger tubas (particularly the larger fatter ones), agreed?