BlackWhite

I was wondering whether they come in other keys 'cos so far I've only seen them in Bb.

And are flugels used for jazz only?Where else can flugels be found?

rowuk

I have seen flugels in C before.
Flugels are VERY big in european wind band music (which is notated primarily with lots of flats in the key signature). In the rest of the world, they are seen more often in jazz.
I use mine when accompanying hymns in church. There are also several trumpet solos that sound AWESOME in that setting with a flugel (the Prayer of St. Gregory by Alan Hovhanness for instance - just about any organist can play it, you do not need 6 months to prepare and the congregation gets inspired big time).

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wilcox96

Flugels are also used fairly often in musicals - and an example of the typical use would be to emulate french horn types of passages.

Here's a couple of other more "classical" pieces a flugel works well on: Jesu', Joy of Man's Desiring.... and the 2nd mvt of the Hadyn.

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Dale Proctor

I've seen them in C and in Eb.

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There is usually one flugelhorn player in a traditional brass band.

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"A Secret Garden." I am on the hunt for a Flugalhorn.

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BlackWhite

About the flugel playein a brass band,does he usually double on it or that's his main horn?

Any details about flugels in C or Eb?

rowuk

The flugel player in a brass band is the flugel player and would switch to something else only if they were playing arrangements that didn't have a flugel part.

There are practically no more parts being written for higher pitched flugelhorns anymore, so this could just be considered products for unusual applications like replacing saxophones in a wind band. There are a couple of custom builders that make them, but I know of no "standard" production instruments. In the German National Museum there are Flugelhorns in Bb, C, A and low Eb. In the Wind Instrument Museum in Ober-Wölz, Austria I believe there is one historic high Eb instrument too.

There are some custom C flugels played by the Berlin Philharmonic made by Matthias Beck. I think Vulgano Brother knows him, so he may have 1st hand info. Here is a link to a broschure with the instrument MELISMA. It is a rotary flugel.
http://www.musikbeck.de/downloads/Ru...ember%2005.pdf

scroll down to page 6.

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BlackWhite

Hmm,thanks.