hi i play cornet and trumpet i like them both as much as each other - is there any problem with playing them both -i've been playing on cornet since i was 8(7years) and am starting to look in to things like work experience and playing in more proffesional bands- i was going to play soprano but one of the players in our band (student studying at cardiff on preforming diploma V good player) reccomended against playing both cornet and soprano - does this apply to trumpet and cornet? will it affect my sound on each instrument or my range??

QUOTE (jonscott14 @ Dec 14 2004, 02:09 PM)

hi i play cornet and trumpet i like them both as much as each other - is there any problem with playing them both -i've been playing on cornet since i was 8(7years) and am starting to look in to things like work experience and playing in more proffesional bands- i was going to play soprano but one of the players in our band (student studying at cardiff on preforming diploma V good player) reccomended against playing both cornet and soprano - does this apply to trumpet and cornet? will it affect my sound on each instrument or my range??

Doubling on trumpet and Bb cornet is quite common in the music profession. They feel similar and you can play them with the same mouthpiece, but you do have to work a bit at both, because a cornet player will naturally produce a tone which is a bit thicker (richer?) than the ideal trumpet tone. I never heard of anyone doubling on trumpet and Eb soprano, but I don't see why not. Selection of a mouthpiece might be a bit tricky. You need to keep the same rim, but the ideal soprano mouthpiece will be shallower than the sort of trumpet mouthpiece that gives you the normal range of classical trumpet; it might be more appropriate for the high register specialist in the trumpet section of a big (i.e.jazz) band. You can certainly get screw-rimmed horn mouthpieces, so that you can keep the lip muscles happy with one rim but change the acoustic characteristics behind it, and you might investigate that as a way of moving from soprano to trumpet with the right sound on both.