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View Poll Results: Trumpet or Cornet?
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Trumpet
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60.00% |
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Cornet
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Apr-27-2007, 10:24
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Trumpet or Cornet
My money is with the trumpet. What do you think? The cornet has a more mellow tone, but in my opinion, it's just a wuss version of the trumpet!
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Apr-27-2007, 14:52
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When I started playing music, I started on the cornet. Then later I "graduated" to the trumpet. I definitely prefer the trumpet and voted accordingly.
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Apr-27-2007, 19:03
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I voted for the Cornet - not as a player, but as an accompanist (piano/organ) as its "quieter" hues of sound are lots more pleasing to my ears.
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Apr-27-2007, 21:45
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Trumpet all the way.
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Apr-27-2007, 21:53
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I prefer Louis Armstrong's cornet recordings to his trumpet ones.
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Apr-27-2007, 22:40
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Ahhh, now there's smooooth playing - Louis Armstrong. Thanks for the memory jog 
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Jul-09-2008, 01:18
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I am a cornet player... The cornet's tone seems more pleasing to many people's ears. I voted for the cornet.
I enjoy a trumpet sound every now and then, though. Especially in fanfares.
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Jul-09-2008, 14:38
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no wussiness in a cornet. it's a conical bore and isn't built to sound like a cylindrical bore (trumpet).
listen to bix beiderbecke play, or the marine band...wow, that's a cornet.
dj
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Jul-09-2008, 21:10
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Harwood
I prefer Louis Armstrong's cornet recordings to his trumpet ones.
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In a too-long neglected corner of my vinyl storage, I have a couple of albums by Muggsy Spanier ("the man with the hot cornet").
I thought of voting cornet just to be contrarian. I'll delay my ballot, for now. 
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Jul-12-2008, 20:04
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Edward Elgar
My money is with the trumpet. What do you think? The cornet has a more mellow tone, but in my opinion, it's just a wuss version of the trumpet!
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I voted for the cornet.
The thing is, the cornet is not *any* version of the trumpet - they are entirely different, as evidenced by their ancestry (bugle vs posthorn).
Trumpeters are loud, boorish, and ten-a-penny, but a smooth cornet player - now that's something.
Then again, I am biased since I play the thing myself.
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Jul-13-2008, 02:21
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soundandfury:
tell that to maurice murphy of the lso. he's expert on both and proves you observation a bit off...or maybe phil smith of the nypo - same story, as with gerard schwarz & wynton marsalis.
dj
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Jul-13-2008, 18:32
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sorry, I should have said that I mean the main body of each type - obviously a professional player of any instrument can usually make it sing, but among provincials I find that the cornet players tend to have a nicer sound. And the trumpet players who I have met - who, of course, are mostly not career musicians, just amateurs and hobbyists like myself - tend to be less musical than the corresponding cornet players - except for the ex-RAF trumpeters who are generally extremely good.
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Dec-20-2008, 20:39
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I like the mellower sound of the Cornet.
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