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UK
/flˈuːɡəlhˌɔːn/
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NOUN
- a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore
How To Use flugelhorn In A Sentence
- The displays on the four walls and the exhibits in the center are all built around various topics, like "Counterculture and Assimilation," which offers Miles Davis's inscribed flugelhorn, Dizzy Gillespie's bejeweled fez and a well-worn, road-decorated steamer trunk from Pearl Bailey; elsewhere, there's Count Basie's sporty yachting cap. No Myth: The Apollo's Power
- Over the years, McPhee has become adept on alto and soprano saxes, value trombone, flugelhorn, pocket trumpet, cornet, and various clarinets.
- On the other hand, Young doesn't use trumpets and flugelhorns, as Hayden occasionally does, though he does make sure you can hear his words.
- Parts are also included in the set for E flat alto clarinet, B flat contrabass clarinet, and two flugelhorns, all of which are ad lib.
- Along the way he influenced Miles Davis and pioneered the use of the flugelhorn in jazz.
- The orchestra required is a large one, including such unusual instruments as six buccine [ancient Roman trumpets], five flugelhorns, two tavoletta, sirens and a klaxon.
- Heckelphone, ondes-martenot, tubax, contrabassoon, serpent, octobasse, flugelhorn, euphonium are examples of musical instruments whose sex appeal does not live up to their exotic sounding names.
- He writes, ‘The usual symphony orchestra is used, with the addition of three saxophones and flugelhorn.’
- Nor is it all normal trumpets: this CD boasts piccolo trumpets, bass trumpets, cornets and flugelhorns, as well as a smattering of percussion.
- A discreet virtuoso, Yates adapts skipping folk-fiddle melodies to trumpet, flugelhorn and tenor horn, and his engaging themes – full of light, fluttering figures – are compatibly supported by Bende's bell-like chording and Byrne's galloping low-register sounds on the bodhran drum and Latin-American cajon. Neil Yates: Five Countries – review