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rhatheway Veteran Member
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:42 pm Post subject: How many trumpeters play other non-brass instruments? |
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Just curious, because I have a theory that because trumpet players are some of the best instrumentalists around, we're able to pick up other (non-brass) instruments fairly easily.
For instance, I also play bass guitar, rhythm guitar, some finger picking on guitar, a little mandolin, some banjo, I'm not bad on drums, and a few other misc instruments (at one time or another I played all the brass instruments except for slide trombone). Personally, I think it's fun to play something other than trumpet, so picking up some of those other instruments helps broaden my experience in music.
So..., who else plays other instruments outside the brass family? _________________ Richard H
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Working on getting my chops back...
“Without music, life would be a mistake” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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1968 Getzen Eterna Severinsen
1977 Reynolds Medalist CR-58
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kehaulani Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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Professionally:
Soprano sax
Lead or Principal Alto
Lead or Jazz Tenor
Western flute
Irish flute
Baroque flute
Recorder
Feadog
Trumpet
Cornet
French Horn
Trombone
For fun:
Guitar
Ukulele
Alto Horn
Marching French Horn _________________ "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird
"I wouldn't play like Wynton Marsalis even if I could play like Wynton Marsalis." Attributed to Chet
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peanuts56 Veteran Member
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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Djembe, ashiko and finger style ukulele. |
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Crazy Finn Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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A lot of trumpeters I know don't play other brass instruments and often don't play other instruments at all.
I'm not at the level I was when I played seriously a decade or more ago when I played in festivals and gigs with orchestras and brass ensembles. I also taught band and music in general, but do not any longer.
Semi-Professional:
Trumpet (Bb, C, Eb, Piccolo)
Cornet (Bb)
Occasionally semi-professionally:
Alto Horn
Tenor Horn
Euphonium (maybe?)
Have performed in front of an audience on (in rough order of competence)
Eb Soprano Cornet
Euphonium
Flute
Trombone
Piano (accompanying elementary music program choir)
Acoustic Guitar (ditto)
Drum Set
Timpani
Snare Drum
Bass Drum
Various Percussion - keyboard percussion, cymbals, etc
Clarinet
Alto Sax
Tenor Sax
Other Instruments I can play to some degree
Violin
Bass Clarinet (actually kind of fun)
Other instruments I can kind of play
Cello
Double Bass (upright Bass)
Bass Guitar
Viola (alto clef is a bit rough)
I'm also absolutely useless on recorder. _________________ LA Benge 3X Bb Trumpet
Selmer Radial Bb Trumpet
Yamaha 6335S Bb Trumpet
Besson 709 Bb Trumpet
Bach 184L Bb Cornet
Yamaha 731 Bb Flugelhorn |
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Voltrane Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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More modestly Aerophone Roland AE 20. Only one instrument but a lot of possible sounds! (And by the way far less expensive than a lot of horns, guitar and so on… ) _________________ 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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stuartissimo Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:14 am Post subject: |
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I’ve played French horn and drums in the past. I also arrange and compose music for a variety of ensemble settings.
Tried bass trumpet, saxophone and bass guitar, with little succes.
Crazy Finn wrote: | I'm also absolutely useless on recorder. |
Same here, except I also destroyed my mother’s recorder in the process. Apparently you’re not supposed to bite them in frustration. _________________ 1975 Olds Recording trumpet
1997 Getzen 700SP trumpet
1955 Olds Super cornet
1939 Buescher 280 flugelhorn
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spitvalve Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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French Horn (doubled in high school)
Superbone (doubled semi-professionally)
For kicks:
Flute
Kalimba
Otamatone
Harmonica
Still dabbling:
piano
Took guitar lessons in 7th grade _________________ Bryan Fields
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1999 Getzen Eterna 700S
1977 Getzen Eterna 895S Flugelhorn
1969 Getzen Capri cornet
1995 UMI Benge 4PSP piccolo trumpet
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stuartissimo Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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By the way, Kehaulani and Finn, that's quite impressive. _________________ 1975 Olds Recording trumpet
1997 Getzen 700SP trumpet
1955 Olds Super cornet
1939 Buescher 280 flugelhorn
AR Resonance mouthpieces |
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Crazy Finn Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 3:20 am Post subject: |
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stuartissimo wrote: | By the way, Kehaulani and Finn, that's quite impressive. |
Music Ed degree, instrumental method classes, piano lessons (never played before college), and teaching for 17 years. Also, being kind of unafraid of doing new things and playing in from of people. _________________ LA Benge 3X Bb Trumpet
Selmer Radial Bb Trumpet
Yamaha 6335S Bb Trumpet
Besson 709 Bb Trumpet
Bach 184L Bb Cornet
Yamaha 731 Bb Flugelhorn |
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cgaiii Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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I mess around with banjo and guitar. Used to play backup banjo in a bluegrass band in Japan.
Do vocals count as an instrument? I do a lot of those. _________________ Bb: Schilke X3L AS, Yamaha YTR-6335S
C: Schilke CXL, Kanstul 1510-2
Bb Cornet: Getzen 800 DLXS
Pic: Kanstul 920
Bb Bugle: Kanstul
Bb Pocket: Manchester Brass
Flugel: Taylor Std
Bass Tr: BAC Custom
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huntman10 Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat May 04, 2024 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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Well, back about 50 years ago I had marginal proficiency to teach your basic band instruments, a few guitar chords, and piano enough to accompany 4th graders singing. I would rather have dental surgery than sing. But I quit teaching band back in 78, dropped a truck off of a jack and messed up my hand in the end of the last century, so I can't play keyboards, and now, if it isn't two holes separated by brass tubing, with 3 or 4 right hand valves, I am helpless! But I won't claim any particular talent outside of persistence! ![](images/smiles/icon_wink.gif) _________________ huntman10
Collector/Player of Fine (and not so fine) Brass Instruments including
Various Strads, Yammies, Al Hirt Courtois, Schilkes,
Selmer 25, Getzen Eternas, Kanstuls (920 Pic, CG)
Martin Custom Large Bore, Lots Olds!, Conns, etc. |
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TrumpetMD Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 5:29 am Post subject: Re: How many trumpeters play other non-brass instruments? |
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rhatheway wrote: | So..., who else plays other instruments outside the brass family? |
Impressive lists by kehaulani and Crazy Finn.
For me, it's trumpet and piano. I mess around with a few other instruments, such as chromatic harmonica and guitar. But trumpet and piano are the two I've studied formally. And I have regular gigs on both instruments, usually as as trumpet-guitar-bass trio or as a piano-bass duo.
Mike _________________ Bach Stradivarius 43* Trumpet (1974), Bach 6C Mouthpiece.
Bach Stradivarius 184 Cornet (1988), Yamaha 13E4 Mouthpiece
Olds L-12 Flugelhorn (1969), Yamaha 13F4 Mouthpiece.
Plus a few other Bach, Getzen, Olds, Carol, HN White, and Besson horns. |
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Monosect Regular Member
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2024 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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My first instrument was trumpet, which I played until my early 20s - big band and the last couple of years with an R&B covers band.
Then there was a sharp deviation off into playing synthesizers! That led to a second era on stage, though I also wrote and produced all the music for the band. The peak of that was playing to 1500-2000 numanoids - I guess I can claim to have supported an icon. The stage rig for that was Roland SH-101 and JX-3P. Later, smaller, dirtier things later leaned more on Korg MS-20.
I’ve been back practicing trumpet consistently for the best part of a year, been out for a couple of jam sessions locally. And I now have a Eurorack pitch tracking module to explore trumpet/electronics crossover. _________________ Boosey & Hawkes Sovereign Studio / Lotus 2XL B, 2L2 N |
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nieuwguyski Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Thu May 09, 2024 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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A few years ago I was playing some concerts with a local group that performs the Beatles albums and singles live, that the Beatles never performed live -- from "The White Album" on. The group has hired me, as needed, for the last 10 years because I'm a useful utility player: I've played euphonium (covering the bass clarinet part in "When I'm 64"), trombone, F alto horn (French horn parts too low for flugelhorn), flugelhorn (including the high horn solo in "For No One"), trumpet, and piccolo trumpet (though I have declined the "Penny Lane" solo for the last few years).
On these particular concerts one of the songs was "Fool On the Hill," which features a flute quartet ("features" is too strong a word, as the flutes are very low in the mix). Not wanting to pay more players, the horn section was asked, "You guys can play flute, right?"
It just irritated me, and I responded in the stupidest way: "Of course."
I rented a flute, borrowed my wife's flute fingering chart, and learned how to play the fourth flute part. The tenor sax player in the horn section refused to play flute, so my wife dusted off her middle-school flute chops and played the second part. _________________ J. Notso Nieuwguyski |
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Dizzyr1971 New Member
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Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 3:54 am Post subject: |
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Piano, man....every musician should be studying piano as a second instrument, IMHO, it is the entire orchestra in one "thing". It also sounds lovely straight away, and although I only started a couple of years ago and don't spend nearly enough time on it, compared to the trumpet, it is soooo easy! That said, and before anyone jumps on my back, there are also no limits on what you can do on it...
I can also play chords on the guitar and the ukelele, but since I took up the piano I don't have time to play them. |
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Rob Thomson New Member
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Posted: Fri May 10, 2024 7:57 am Post subject: |
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Fun topic!
I've played electric bass for many years, including professionally a bit.
I picked up electric guitar last year and took a few lessons. I had forgotten how much it sucks to be a rank beginner! I can competently play some scales and chords, triads up and down the neck, but I wouldn't call myself "good," yet. I'm a gearhead, though. Bought a cheap Epiphone Les Paul and completely rewired it with top shelf components. Man, that was a blast!
I also play piano a little. Euphonium, trombone. Took F horn and alto sax lessons in undergrad, and have played drums for church in a pinch.
And I sing. Audited my sister's voice lessons for three years in high school. Voice teacher was a man and I was there as a witness/chaperone/peace of mind or whatever. _________________ Rob Thomson
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Man Of Constant Sorrow Veteran Member
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Posted: Sun May 12, 2024 5:58 am Post subject: |
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Almost everything, other than woodwinds (although; I've dabbled on Highland Pipes, with marginal results).
Gigged two nights ago on drums ... will be on cornet later today.
I somehow lucked into a complete set (4) of the tympani kettle drums, so I dabble on that, but my percussion reading skills are woeful. (I "cheat").
I play myriad "world drums". Just no room to store all of them.
All kinds of stringed instruments. Was formerly a lead-guitar player in a regionally prominent Rock'n'Roll band. Still have the hair (thankfully ... "image" is expected ... helps get chicks).
My fave is the Hammond organ (B-3), and I am not proficient enough to believe I am good. However; I have entered the world of electronic keyboards and synthesizers. The $$$ factor is off-putting. Those instruments constantly evolve.
It's fun ! _________________ Sub-Optimal Hillbilly Jazz |
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kehaulani Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sun May 12, 2024 8:18 am Post subject: |
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Hey, Man . . . You can't spend the money when you're dead. Go for it! ![](images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif) _________________ "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird
"I wouldn't play like Wynton Marsalis even if I could play like Wynton Marsalis." Attributed to Chet
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Man Of Constant Sorrow Veteran Member
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Posted: Sun May 12, 2024 9:01 am Post subject: |
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kehaulani wrote: | Hey, Man . . . You can't spend the money when you're dead. Go for it! ![](images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif) |
"There is much in what you say, my son" ... ~ Don Quixote, as said to his faithful servant, Sancho Panza _________________ Sub-Optimal Hillbilly Jazz |
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