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Trumpetstud
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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2023 7:01 pm    Post subject: Couesnon Reply with quote

My teacher has a Couesnon and it does not have a third valve trigger. BUT, I was watching a youtube video of Tom Harrell who has a Couesnon and it has a 3rd valve trigger. Was it added?
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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2023 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A bit more information might get you better answers but if you are talking about a flugelhorn - no, they were not made with third slide triggers but a competent technician can install one. There a couple of options, but the easiest would be Yamaha parts…
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2023 4:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep. I was talking about the flugelhorn. I didn’t think they came with the trigger but then I saw Tom Harrell’s. I thought that was cool.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2023 4:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just pull and set the 3rd valve slide long enough for 2+3 to be in tune or a little flat, and 1+3 then lips in easily.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2023 8:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree that adding a 3rd trigger would be best. On my older Yamaha flugel with no trigger, I just leave the 3rd slide out a little bit and it allows me to lip everything into tune easily enough.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 01, 2023 8:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

cheiden wrote
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On my older Yamaha flugel with no trigger, I just leave the 3rd slide out a little bit and it allows me to lip everything into tune easily enough.


This works on my Yamaha 631 flugel. Very simple solution.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 02, 2023 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Charlie Melk added one to my Couesnon flugelhorn. Yamaha parts plus installation ran about $150 twelve years ago. No idea what it would cost now. Well worth it though.
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Bill Ortiz
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 02, 2023 6:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a 3rd valve slide trigger added to my Couesnon flugelhorn as well....
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 03, 2023 10:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used to play with a great player who held his Couesnon flugel with his left hand wrapped around the very bottom bell tubing of the horn, two fingers on top, two fingers below. He used his index finger on the inside of the third-slide crook to extend the slide and his thumb under the crook to push it back in. He was just as adept at tuning his D's and C#'s as the rest of us with triggers.
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