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Originally Posted by BADBOY-DON  Hummm?
Although I have only a small collection of Art Farmers wonderful CDs but I haven't heard that one you mentioned as being poorly recorded...or the sound of that flumpet of his not up to your high quality standards of excellence on that recording.
I wonder---------------???
Personally, I have heard Art play both his first prototype flumpets as well as that beautiful Presentation Flumpet.
I can assure you...that listening to Art Farmer play those beautiful instruments live was truly a memorial and rare gift that I will charish forever... |
Well said, Don. I found a wonderful quote from the liner notes of Art Farmer’s “The Meaning of Art” that I’d like to share:
In the early days he played trumpet, in the middle years flugelhorn. Now his horn is the flumpet, created to his specifications to capture qualities of both predecessors. Whatever increments of improvement the flumpet allows, it does not produce the beauty; the instrument is a conduit for the music in the man.
--Doug Ramsey