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PaulRoss&Co New Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:11 am Post subject: Soprano Flugelhorn in D - any information? |
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Does anyone have any more information about this horn? It is by D.Ansingh & Co Zwolle Solist B V Dijk made in Rotterdam sometime between 1950-77. It is pitched in D and plays similar to a soprano cornet with a much darker tone. Would anyone have any idea what kind of music/ensembles this would have been used in. It seems quite a rare/unique instrument and plays rather nicely.
[/img] _________________ “The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.”
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delano Heavyweight Member
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RETrumpet Veteran Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:11 am Post subject: |
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It's not a stencil of the Charlier as that horn uses a similar third slide geometry of a rotary trumpet and often had an A transposing valve. This is the same instrument as the old advertisement reprint in the back of his book.
https://www.horn-u-copia.net/show.php?selby=+where+instrument%3D%22Trumpet%22+and+maker%3D%22Ansingh++%22
However most Belgian instruments used what we now think of as a flugelhorn wrap for their trumpets up until the 1930's.
I have a DeVries with very similar features. Mine is definitely a trumpet.
That said, I have seen soprano flugels in Eb, but they have all had vertical valve slides and larger bell flares. _________________ Bb: FrankenBach, '72 Committee, Conn 22B, King 2070SGX
C: Bach 229-MK slide/pipe, Bach 226 with YTR-9445(2) pipe
D/Eb: Bach 239 with YTR-9636 pipe
Picc: Stomvi Master, Couesnon Monopole
Cornet: Schilke A2C, '23 Buescher
Flugel: Scodwell Prototype |
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delano Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:27 am Post subject: |
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I did not say it is a Mahillon Charlier. IMO it is a De Prins Charlier copy for two reasons:
De Prins used often the model name 'Solist",
De Prins Charlier trumpets did not (always?) have the rotary third valve set up. |
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RETrumpet Veteran Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:47 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, misunderstood. The word "stencil" has a specific meaning in my mind.
(i.e. identical geometry such as the VMI stencil of a Miraphone 186, etc....)
Cheers. _________________ Bb: FrankenBach, '72 Committee, Conn 22B, King 2070SGX
C: Bach 229-MK slide/pipe, Bach 226 with YTR-9445(2) pipe
D/Eb: Bach 239 with YTR-9636 pipe
Picc: Stomvi Master, Couesnon Monopole
Cornet: Schilke A2C, '23 Buescher
Flugel: Scodwell Prototype |
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PaulRoss&Co New Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:50 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the replies and links, very helpful.
Here is a closer image
It is definitely pitched in D when I play it. It's quite small and the pipes are a lot smaller than a Bb trumpet. Perhaps originally it came with alternative tuning pipes. Only a flugelhorn mouthpiece fits the lead pipe. _________________ “The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.”
- John Keats |
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delano Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:51 am Post subject: |
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OK, I use stencil as certain branded horn like made by Conn but then sold under the name Wurlitzer or so.
I own a Verreijt (Dutch) cornet that is in fact a Belgium Van Engelen cornet with the name of Verreijt on it. I call that a stencil. Right or wrong? |
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delano Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:59 am Post subject: |
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As far as I know there only exist flügels in Bflat and in Eflat.
Edit: sorry, it's not a flügel.
Last edited by delano on Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:38 am; edited 2 times in total |
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JayKosta Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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delano wrote: | OK, I use stencil as certain branded horn like made by Conn but then sold under the name Wurlitzer or so.
I own a Verreijt (Dutch) cornet that is in fact a Belgium Van Engelen cornet with the name of Verreijt on it. I call that a stencil. Right or wrong? |
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My understanding of 'stencil' is similar to yours -
A horn made by a company (and which appears identical/very similar) to a model that is sold by the maker using the maker's name, and the horn is sold under the name of a different company.
Whether the stencil horn is really 'identical' to one sold under the maker's name is less clear. There might be differences in material or QC requirements.
This is somewhat different from the situation of a maker 'outsourcing production' to a different company. _________________ Most Important Note ? - the next one !
KNOW (see) what the next note is BEFORE you have to play it.
PLAY the next note 'on time' and 'in rhythm'.
Oh ya, watch the conductor - they set what is 'on time'. |
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Shawnino Veteran Member
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delano Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2021 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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Funny |
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Andy Del Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:44 am Post subject: |
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I have a Cousenon Eb flugel that is in the traditional form. It came to me as a very ‘low’ Eb flugel, almost uselessly so. A judicious Trimpet of the tuning shank saw it become useable.
I did have a suspicion it was a higher pitched D flugel...
That said, the bell flair of the OP’s instrument looks more trumpet/ cornet than flugel, plus it is in an older trumpet shape.
D trumpet? Maybe. My very old Alexander D has an odd bell profile, very open and almost flugel like (still definitely a trumpet).
Cheers
Andy _________________ so many horns, so few good notes... |
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Nonsense Eliminator Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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I have no idea what this is. But Elgar Howarth's arrangement of Pictures at an Exhibition for the PJBE calls for flugelhorn in D for Schmuyle... so I guess it's a thing? _________________ Richard Sandals
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Voltrane Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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Hello,
Regarding the Couesnon, here is a link to a 1934 catalog:
http://jeanluc.matte.free.fr/cat/coues34/couesn34_018.jpg
No D Flugelhorn. May be created after but I never heard (or saw anywhere) about a D Couesnon flugelhorn (but out of tune Couesnon, yes! )
May be not the original leadpipe or only one of 2 leadpipes?
Édit:
I forgot: under the title Historique, it is written « le bugle - en mi b ou en si b » (the flugelhorn- in Eb or Bb-). Seems difficult to believe in a Couesnon D flugelhorn from 1935 when you read this in a 1934 catalog. Seems more like a 121 or 122 model. _________________ S’il n’en reste qu’un je serai celui là (Victor Hugo)
Je m’empresse d’en rire de peur d’avoir à en pleurer (Beaumarchais) |
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dstpt Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 7:00 am Post subject: |
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Sorry for a delayed post to this thread...Easter gig stuff...but hey! A GIG!!!!
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There's been a Couesnon flugel in D for sale at jlandressbrass.com for some time. It was built in 1935.
https://www.jlandressbrass.com/shop/Flugelhorns/p/1935-Couesnon-D-Flugel-x41800197.htm
I thought it would be an excellent choice for a principal player asked by the music director to play the Posthorn Solo from Mahler Sym. #3 (mvt. 3) on a flugelhorn! It could happen...probably has for any recording you hear it on flugelhorn. Lots to explore on YT...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mahler+symphony+3+posthorn+solo
I haven't listened to all of these, yet, but this one got my attention...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2_oop-pLk4
...on a Schagerl Killer Queen...gorgeously played. Notice he uses 1-3 for the 4th line D (although difficult to see with the backlight). Great choice to sit on top of the pitch on the 5th of the key. His pitch throughout is very in tune with itself. You might also notice the pitch differential when the muted tpt onstage enters at the end of his solo...very low to the offstage flugel, which we hear immediately in this video. Hmmm...wonder why that is? Of course, distance "lowers" the perceived pitch (google: Doppler Effect). That's why the offstage soloist will have to "push in" for his part, since it will be a lower sounding pitch on stage and in the hall. Is this a thread on Mahler's Posthorn Solo?! Sorry, that's how I see this flugel in D being used. AND, there's this YT video on that solo, which really offers some other options...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFeS3wEgpcU
It appears Nikolaj Viltoft's final choice was a C cornet (and he evidently did not have the luxury of a D flugel for exploration). Still, if you use a D-pitched horn (Stomvi 4v D cornet, a [rare] flugel in D, any other D tpt) or an E-flat-pitched horn, it will make the job easier. That is the primary orchestral excerpt that comes to mind, but the offstage solo to The Pines of Rome, or many other lyrical works may be applicable. Not sure if it would have been used in a brass band, but perhaps there were written parts in some European military band music at one time?
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And yes, I started replying prior to any other post and didn't see the other responses. Pardon the duplication of other's entries. |
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delano Heavyweight Member
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