An old instrument type revived

[imperialbari]

You cannot prevent anybody from using a wrong terminology. Still instruments with that open bell profile are flugelhorns.

Klaus

[Lectron]

You cannot prevent anybody from using a wrong terminology. Still instruments with that open bell profile are flugelhorns.

Oh, by all means. That instrument type is a flugelhorn, but was when made called a cornet by Ahlberg & Ohlsson among others..

[Lingon]

You cannot prevent anybody from using a wrong terminology. Still instruments with that open bell profile are flugelhorns.

Klaus

Here is a link to a Swedish page from Skåne, the south of the country and unfortunately in Swedish, but with some pictures from the old days in the end of the 19th century and on, some with those old brass instruments, amongst them what was in Sweden called Eb kornett, Bb kornett and Eb alto horn, tenorbasun (roatary valve trombone) etc.

[Lectron]

They might call it a cornet, and there's really nothing wrong with that, but it is a flugelhorn....That particular model

Quite ironic...Todays flugelhorn ain't..They're a saxhorn

Arrest me if I'm wrong, and I'm sure you will, the cornet as we know it today from British brass bands etc. was made by Antoine Courtois in 1855 and was called modele anglais.

Still...Here in Norway, obviously Sweden and probably Denmark too, hold on to the flugelhorn insisting to call it a cornet..And as a tubaplayer...Yes..It does sound better


Antoine Courtois cornet