Flugelhorn

Definition: Flugelhorn

Flugelhorn

Noun

1. A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore.

Specialty Definition: Flugelhorn

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Flugelhorn- this is a standard 3-valved Bb model
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The flugelhorn (also spelled fluegelhorn or flügelhorn) is a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore. It is the soprano member of the saxhorn (also known as tuba) family developed by Adolphe Sax (who also developed the saxophone) and is built in the same Bb pitch as many trumpets and cornets. It usually has three valves and employs the same fingering system as other brass instruments. It can thus be played without too much trouble by trumpet and cornet players, though some adaptation may be needed to their playing style.
The tone is fatter and usually regarded as more "mellow" and "dark" than that of the trumpet or cornet. It has a similar level of agility to the cornet but is more difficult to control in the high register where in general it "slots" or locks on to notes less easily. It is not generally used for aggressive or bright displays as both trumpet and cornet can be, but tends more towards a softer and more reflective role. Its main areas of use are in jazz and in the brass band, though it does get occasional use in orchestral writing.
Some modern flugels are built with a fourth valve which takes them down in pitch an extra fourth, adding a useful area of low range which when coupled with the dark sound gives an interesting extension to the instrument's abilities.

External link

An enthusiast's flugelhorn guide with many details of individual makes etc.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flugelhorn."

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Synonym: Flugelhorn

Synonym: fluegelhorn (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Flugelhorn

Domain	Title
Books	The Rough Guide to Trumpet & Trombone, Flugelhorn & Cornet (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Flugelhorn

"Flugelhorn" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Flugelhorn" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Flugelhorn

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
flugelhorn	33
flugelhorn getzen sale	3
flugelhorn getzen	3
chart fingering flugelhorn	3
used flugelhorn	2
flugelhorn huttl	2
couesnon flugelhorn	2
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Derivations & Misspellings: Flugelhorn

Derivations
	Words beginning with "flugelhorn": flugelhornist, flugelhornists, flugelhorns. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Flugelhorn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flogelhorn, flugalhorn, fugelhorn. (additional references)
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Anagrams: Flugelhorn

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-g-h-l-l-n-o-r-u"
	-3 letters: furlong, leghorn, lounger, roughen.
	-4 letters: engulf, enough, enroll, fouler, fuller, golfer, gorhen, holler, huller, hunger, longer, lounge, lunger, rehung, unroll.
	-5 letters: enrol, erugo, felon, flong, flour, flung, fluor, foehn, forge, fugle, fungo, genro, ghoul, gluer, gluon, gofer, gonef, goner, gruel, hello, heron, honer, huger, hullo, loner, longe, lough, luger, lunge, nerol, ogler, rogue.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-g-h-l-l-n-o-r-u"
	+1 letter: fluegelhorn, flugelhorns.
	+2 letters: fluegelhorns.
	+3 letters: flugelhornist.
	+4 letters: flugelhornists.
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