Trumpet or Cornet? A History of Brass Instruments by Rich Ita

#trumpet #cornet #trumpetlessons #trumpetlife
Trumpet or Cornet?
Do you really know the difference?
by Rich Ita, owner of Brass Instrument Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia
00:00 Introduction
01:15 What's the difference be a trumpet and a cornet?
04:36 The cornet is from the horn family.
05:59 Common pitches and lengths
07:06 Styles of playing
10:00 Slide Trumpet
11:00 Slide Trumpet Performance
11:37 Thanks to Sabina Klaus and the Utley Trumpet Collection
12:19 Clapper Keys
14:24 Stoelzel Valves
16:59 Trumpet Guilds and Horn Guilds
19:40 Adolph Sax
21:34 Vienna Valves or Twin Tube Valves
22:40 Bluhmel Valves
24:40 Berliner Pumpen Valves
25:50 Shaw "Patented Lever" Disc Valves
27:00 Perinet Valves or Modern Valves
29:50 Trumpet Mouthpieces and Cornet Mouthpieces
31:50 Cornet Mouthpiece
33:00 Modern Era
35:27 British Brass Bands
35:50 Boosey Catalog from 1883
37:14 Jules Levy playing cornet on The Last Rose of Summer
40:50 Vincent Bach
42:00 Vincent Bach Cornet
44:38 Vincent Bach Playing Cornet
46:40 Vincent Bach Playing His New 1927 Cornet
48:24 Hybrids and Crossbreeds
53:04 Louis Armstrong's Hybrid Cornet
53:29 Louis Armstrong playing Muskrat Ramble on Cornet
55:02 Louis Armstrong playing Saint Louis Blues on his Selmer Balanced Action Trumpet
57:48 Trumpet and Cornet Rivalry
1:00:20 Rafael Mendez
1:03:38 Conclusion
1:04:54 Questions and Answers
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[@kn-qz7by]

Initially I’d planned on watching only selected portions of this talk but it was so interesting, educational and well-presented that I wound up watching it in its entirety. Well done!

[@JeffPurtle]

Thanks. Please share the videos with others. There is another one of Rich Ita I have yet to post where he talks about repairs and shows examples of his restoration work with before and after pictures. One cornet literally went through being crushed in a trash compactor.

[@johnmerritt8768]

Fantastic review. from a cornet and trumpet collector....

[@JeffPurtle]

Thanks! Please share it with others. I have another batch of videos to post. Another will be of Rich too.

[@nrcg2317]

Excellent presentation!!

[@JeffPurtle]

I’m glad you enjoyed it. Please share with others. I have another year of my conferences to post and another cool one of Rich Ita about repairs and maintenance and restoration that was also very interesting.

[@jason11259]

Fascinating presentation, thank you!

[@ojtrumpet]

Great presetation! (Weidinger was later - performed Haydn and Hummel trumpet concertos on keyed trumpet. Brandenburg 2 could have been played by Gottfried Reiche - who is pictured on the Hausman painting with a coiled trumpet. It was Crispian Steele-Perkins who played the slide trumpet.)

[@JeffPurtle]

I met Crispian before when doing a tour in England with a couple recitals and masterclasses. My student David Bertie told me of his recital and we drove about an hour to a small country church and Crispian was awesome and we all talked afterwards. I posted some pictures on my FaceBook and it was one of my favorite concerts of my life and meeting him and hearing him talk and play was awesome. He’s a treasure too!

[@ardacabaoglu8244]

Just a correction: 11:00 it’s Crispian Steele Perkins performing, not Barry Baugess as presented.

[@music25life]

Thank you. I learned a lot.

[@JeffPurtle]

Awesome! Please share these with others and subscribe and hit the notifications bell. I have another entire year of brass conference videos to post including another by Rich Ita showing repairs and restorations. You might be interested in some of the free audio on my website where Claude Gordon talks about historical cornets and soloists. It was always my favorite part at the end of the week. The list of all the audio is on this page. www.purtle.com/claude-gordon-archives

[@timothytikker1147]

In re the Flügelhorn: "Flügel" is German for "wing." I understand that the original, pre-Saxhorn version of the Flügelhorn was played at the "wings," i.e. the outer flanks, of a marching military band. As to the Saxhorn version of the Flügelhorn, which has a secondary role in the British brass band, and your mention of the "vulgar" status of brass band instruments: I once read that one of Vaughan Williams' symphonies features a Flügelhorn solo, of which a newspaper critic wrote of the première "at one point, a nasty noise was heard above the orchestra."

[@JeffPurtle]

Thanks for the info and comment.

[@Microblitz]

Most of the Cornet's tonal quality is derived from the super deep V cup which created a super mellow almost voice like sound. The Trumpet uses a more shallow cup shaped mouthpiece usually with a narrow throat and fast back bore.

[@JeffPurtle]

I believe Rich mentions that in this video.

[@Trioptio]

Thaaank youuuu

[@LJHowardPhoto]

Hi Jeff. Great presentation. I couldn't hear the audience questions. Would it be possible to edit in some subtitles to give an idea of what was asked?

[@JeffPurtle]

Les. That’s a great idea! I will have to do that very soon. It’s easy to do. I will put them in the comments with the time codes as you can see now with the chapters.

[@LJHowardPhoto]

@@JeffPurtle Thanks Jeff. I passed this along to some of my trumpet playing friends.

[@KerryLorah]

Sonare is coming back?

[@allwinds3786]

At 43 minutes you show the Bach cornet with a Schilke mouthpiece 😀

[@chasefreak]

It could be an early NY Bach MPC, that blank and the older Schilke blanks from the '60's & early '70's were almost identical...so much so, you have to look REALLY close to differentiate between them

[@douglehrer4385]

I think the cornet Bach is holding is an F. Besson, Paris instrument he had when he came to the United States.

[@JeffPurtle]

You might be right. Be on the lookout for an upcoming book by my student David Bertie from England. The book is a supplement to Saint Jacome and has lots of backstory about many things including his work as a tester in England later for Besson. It will be published in September by Colin and qpress.

[@TrumpetAndree_]

🙌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@ericclaptonsrobotpilot7276]

I was hypnotized by the epic dad cell phone belt holster.

[@allwinds3786]

Eric you must be very easily distracted, there are medications for that.

[@philg4116]

What’s that snooty trebly old-timey horn sound from the roaring twenties that could be coming out of the extremely pointy and narrow snout of a miniature fox?

[@bellm60]

What year was this presentation?

[@JeffPurtle]

This was from my 2010 brass conference. www.purtle.com/brass-conference

[@kendrickpereira37]

What happened to the sound in Muskrat Ramble?

[@JeffPurtle]

Due to copyright restrictions KZbin won’t let it play. I either had the option to mute that portion or not be monetized for the entire video. I don’t think I was even given the option to share revenue for that portion.

[@kendrickpereira37]

Oh dear, @@JeffPurtle! I see.

[@kendrickpereira37]

But, apart from that, it was a most interesting and informative presentation.

[@JeffPurtle]

@kendrickpereira37 KZbin does that and sometimes there’s not a way to appeal it. On the Arturo Sandoval masterclass I posted KZbin claimed I posted an orchestral recording of Mahler’s 5th Symphony when Arturo merely played the opening few measures of the trumpet solo. I hope you enjoy all the videos and find them helpful for your practice and playing. Please tell others. My goal is for all the content I post here and on my website will remain after I die. Look at my site too. www.purtle.com