Martin Committee Trumpet --> really a cornet?

Tom Stewart · Regular Member Joined: 08 Oct 2009 Posts: 68

Okay, admittedly I'm not a gear geek. But I've been reading a lot about Martin Committee trumpets here on trumpet herald and there's definitely a curiosity there for me. From what i've read they're pretty weird as far as trumpets go with the whole step-bore thing. Correctly me if i'm wrong(and I very well may be), but the whole step-bore makes the horn 'conical' bore, right? I thought I read that cornets and flugels were conical bore and trumpets weren't.

SO, my question is, are all Martin Committee trumpets really cornets if conical bore is the differential factor between trumpets and cornets?

If i'm just totally off, what makes a trumpet a trumpet vs a cornet vs a flugelhorn. Because the old Bach Flugel looks like a cornet. The old Martin Flugehorn...don't know what that looks like. Then the Connstellation 38A looks like a trumpet?!

VetPsychWars · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 3:05 pm Post subject:

Just about every trumpet you've ever heard of is just a funny-looking cornet. The only real difference between a trumpet and a cornet is the mouthpiece shank.

It's not really worth a whole lot of thinking about.

Now a fluegel horn, that is really different and the bell is mostly the difference.

Tom
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nieuwguyski · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 3:13 pm Post subject:

http://www.robbstewart.com/Essays/TrumpetSchmumpet.html
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