Flugelhorn

The flugelhorn is a high brass instrument similar to the trumpet and cornet, but with the wider conical bore of a bugle producing a darker, mellower sound. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in 4½-foot B♭, though some are in 4′ C. It is a type of valved bugle, developed in Germany in the early 19th century from earlier traditional valveless bugles, and to replace the keyed bugle.

Flugelhorns usually have piston valves in North America, France, Britain, and Commonwealth countries, and rotary valves in central and eastern Europe.

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