Tipbook-Tipbook Trumpet and Trombone Flugelhorn and Cornet focuses on the smaller horns in the Brass family explaining all the jargon you're likely to come across when you're out to buy or rent an instrument from bell and leadpipe material to the shape of the bore the valves and valve slides and all of the other elements that make up the sound and the playability of your horn. Mouthpieces a crucial choice for every brasswind player are dealt with in a chapter of their own. This Tipbook also covers subjects such as learning to play maintenance and tuning the history and the production of these instruments and much more. Interactive Tipcodes audible examples of topics in the book can be accessed at tipbook.com

This piece was commissioned in 1991 by Graham Ashton for his album 'The Contemporary Trumpet'.Quoting Graham Ashton: Michael Nyman wrote Flugel and Piano for me during a period when I felt his approach to the writing andrecording of his music was changing quite considerably. I had given him very few guidelines as I did not want to restrict his writing. I knew the result would be a difficult piece as Michael had often said he likes to hear theperformer 'fighting' the instrument. Flugel and Piano is a fight for a couple of reasons: firstly the flugel does not like being played in the key of D sharp minor especially with a Trombone 'bucket mute' - unfortunately thiswas all that I could find to fit over the larger Flugel bell; secondly the Flugel enjoys being flat at the top register making top Cs and Ds a nightmare! Michael's reaction on hearing the recording was that he found the piecesurprisingly emotional.