Flumpet

The flumpet is a hybrid musical instrument blending qualities of the trumpet and flugelhorn.

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It was inspired by the late Art Farmer, a virtuoso jazz musician who traveled with both a trumpet and a flugelhorn in his baggage. He played with equal facility on both, but switched from one to the other to exploit each instrument's tonal qualities. The trumpet is more strident, the flugelhorn more mellow.

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The Monette Corporation designed the flumpet for Art Farmer in 1990. http://www.monette.net/newsite/online/summer2003/itg.htm

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Mark Isham also plays a Monette flumpet (built for him in 1995). http://www.isham.com/trumpet.html

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Musical instrument: A musical instrument is a device that has been constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound, and can somehow be controlled by a musician, can serve as a musical instrument; but the expression is reserved generally to items that have that specif...

Trumpet: The trumpet is the highest brass instrument in register, above the tuba, euphonium, trombone, sousaphone, and french horn. A person who plays the trumpet is called a trumpeter or, trumpet player....

Flugelhorn: The flugelhorn (also spelled fluegelhorn or fl?gelhorn) is a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore. It is thought by some to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax (who also developed the saxophone); however, other historians assert that it is a memb...