screamingmorris

Bernie,

Since you played trombone 50 years ago you already knew the basics of how to form an "embouchure".

Now that you have been playing trumpet for 2 months and you have been playing cornet for 1 week, I would be interested in your comparison of how it feels playing the 2 instruments, trumpet versus cornet.

Your Barrington trumpet and your Holton Super Collegiate cornet probably have almost identical bore sizes, approximately .460.

How different do they feel in air resistance / openness?
How different are they in tone?
How different are they in range ability / high notes?
How different are they in comfort of holding them?
Any other aspects of playing them differ?

So many of us have so many years of one instrument under our belt before we try the other instrument that we tend to approach the second instrument already set in our ways by the first instrument.
But since you are starting the 2 instruments at approximately the same time, I think you would have a unique perspective in comparing trumpet with cornet.

BTW, you might want to wait until you get your official cornet mouthpiece before answering, because using your trumpet mouthpiece on your cornet (yeah, I've done it, too) can give slightly false impressions (if I put a Bach 7E trumpet mouthpiece on my cornet it has a different tone than if I put a Bach 7E cornet mouthpiece on my cornet, because they have a different backbore although everything else about the 2 mouthpieces is the same).

- Morris