May sound a bit silly to all you coolio trumpet geeks, but if it says 4BFL on my mouthpiece, I am guessing that the FL means flugel??

yeh the 4B is the size of the mouthpiece and the FL does mean that it is made for a flugel. A cornet mouthpiece would just have the 4B

Fanchoo

While this thread is here, can I ask a question: I know that if you play the trumpet you can play the cornet, and vice-versa.
Does this apply to the flugelhorn as well?

Steve

Can you use a cornet mouthpiece to play a trumpet?

iff it's dennis wick it should say F next to the number - ie my flug mouth peice is a "2F"
they are usuallly deeper bore than your standard trumpet/ cornet mouth peice - the length should be that of a cornet mouth peice not a trumpet

In answer to a couple of the posts above, yes, in theory a trumpet player will be able to play flugelhorn and yes, you can use a cornet mouthpiece in trumpet.

To expand on those very brief answers;

Most trumpet players will pick up a flugel and make it sound like a trumpet and most cornet players will make one sound like a cornet. True flugel players sound and play like like horn players, not trumpet players. The reason (we) trumpet players all want to play flugel is because we all allude to that mellow sexy sound and the mouthpieces are the same size so we can swap between instruments. It's always a compromise unless you specialise in one or the other.

You can use a cornet mouthpiece in a trumpet but you need to use an adapter that fits to the end of your cornet mouthpiece to make it fit into the leadpipe of your trumpet. I think you can pick one up for just a few pounds.