How many of you own a flugelhorn? Did you have any problem going to it from the trumpet?

Flugelhorns have a deeper mouthpiece, and normally every pro trumpet player must play one sometimes... Jazz players are switching back and forth throughout a performance constantly.

Okay, but do you own one, and when you first played one was there any problem adapting?

yea I have one, and it's not hard to adapt to.

I own and play two - a Yamaha four-valve and a Getzen four-valve. Switching over isn't really that tough, but it does take a moment to adapt top the variation in mouthpiece and the difference in back pressure. The chops have to work a bit differently, like going from the parallel bars to the rings in gymnastics - get the idea?

It's been a while since I did any gymnastics. Anyway the trumpet player hired for the flugelhorn part (we borrowed the instrument) had no difficulty I could detect aurally at the session Saturday. (It looked to me, though, as if she had to hold her right hand differently, that the valves were harder to push down at that angle.)

it's pretty much the same it just has a more mellow sound and it takes a lil more resistance to play. and i also on a getzen flugel (my trumpet is a getzen too) and it wasn't hard for me at all to adapt to it.

I own a jupiter flugel. No problems switching between tpt and flugel. You should def get one.

super easy to do..i had never played one before and when i finally picked up one it was just like a trumpet xcept it sounded prettier

id love to eventually buy a flugel i think they sound great, especially in jazz. when i finaly have enough money to buy a decent trumpet il get a flugal aswell unless someone wants to sell me one for like £30? lol

im trying for a popular name flugel for about $300. if you are interested in selling, please send me an email at d_councill@hotmail.com

what do you now about Kanstul flugelhorn..i have one and the sound is great but the valves are stacking all the tame and that is disturbing