I am almost always the person that falls down on the side of "go with the "best" sound".
All of my trumpet playing colleagues (that also double on flugel) talk about the difficulties of playing the flugel in tune and that mpc choice is a determining factor in that quest. In this instance, the mpc is truly a compromise between the sound you are in search of and just intonation. I do believe you can go to far in your quest to sound "french horn like" The flugel sound is a bridge between a horn and a trumpet it is neither a horn nor a trumpet. The "blow" is different partially because of the mpc but also because this instrument leans more towards conical and the trumpet leans more towards cylindrical. Debbie Schmidt Tisch Center for he Arts _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
