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Re: Vibrato

Adrian Drover wrote:

>
>
> I agree. My son is only 15, but already has a collection of instruments
> which he has found necessary for his musical education. These include
> trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn in Bb, trumpet and cornet in Eb.

That colection of instrumet is comarable too this: Trombone, Euph,
Eb-tenorhorn, baitone-sax, and bass-clarinet.  Wold you say that if a person
played all this instrumets, that he wold be equaly good on all of them, and
equaly good on all of them copared to one "spesialist" on, lats say, euph?
There is a widly spead msiunderstanding that we cornet-player do not suffer
from changing instuments.  We suffer just as much as the others.  For young
players its even more dangerous.  If you change instrumets, and therefore mp's,
constantly, you will damage your ambochure, and some will even get a injury
that may cause them to stop playing TOTALY for a year or so.  This is a subject
wich I know something about, since I took my master deg. in music on ambochure
and ambochure-building.  If you want to change betveen instruments (and mp's)
youshould be at least 20years old (you must have stoped growing) and have a
rock-solid ambochure before you start.   By starting this on age 15, you are
asking for trouble that may damage you for life.

> I believe
> it is important for him to have an un-blinkered view of the music world.
> He plays in orchestras, wind bands, brass bands, big bands and percussion
> bands, and already shows signs of being a very versatile musician.

Veratile means usable for a lot, but not real good at anything.

> He
> plays everything from classical through jazz and pop, and loves it all.
> Brass bands in my area continually recruit college musicians who have been
> trained as trumpeters.

You should then force them to lay the trumopt "on the shelf" as long as they
are playing in Brass Band

>
>
> > Sorry to disagree again but for many, they are simply returning - and
> > none of us want to destroy it either. You only have to look at the
> > number of CD's being released all with swing/rock/pop/jazz etc etc on
> > them. The bands that play these effectively will often have people who
> > have worked in those idioms.  People often mention Alan Morrison when
> > comparing cornet players - now there's someone who had a period playing
> > trumpet and it makes a difference - for many of us, for the better too.
>
> Adrian
>

--
  Trond  Otto Berg
  Principal
  Stranda Music School, Norway


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