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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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!
When all the paint has been dried, when all the stone has been carved, music shall remain, and we shall work with what remains.
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.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven
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.
Kh
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Trumpet all the way.
“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”
-Gustav Mahler
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I prefer Louis Armstrong's cornet recordings to his trumpet ones.
"Music is a social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is."
- Malcolm Arnold.
Ahhh, now there's smooooth playing - Louis Armstrong. Thanks for the memory jog
Kh
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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.
"The symphony must be like the world; it must contain everything."
-Gustav Mahler
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
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").Originally Posted by Mark Harwood
I thought of voting cornet just to be contrarian. I'll delay my ballot, for now.
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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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
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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I like the mellower sound of the Cornet.
I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
My dad gave me his cornet when my trumpet got broke. After my trumpet got fixed, I still used the cornet and still do to this day.
I played the coronet in school so it has a special place in my heart.
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