flugelhorn

IPA: fɫˈugʌɫhɝn

A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same B-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. A bugle with valves.

Examples of "flugelhorn" in Sentences

Mr. Stamm was again featured on a moving flugelhorn solo.
David Brandom offered a beautifully airy soprano saxophone solo and trumpeter extraordinaire Marvin Stamm offered an impeccably flawless solo of his own on flugelhorn.
Foremost perhaps is the gorgeous trumpet sections by downtown mainstay Frank London, though Rich Stein's percussion and Albert Leusink's mournful flugelhorn sound fantastic.
Kenny Wheeler, the expat Canadian trumpeter and jazz composer, was 82 last week – but this big band session featuring new themes and plenty of flugelhorn improvising, was recorded only a few months ago.
Comba N3, with its pensive flugelhorn and delicate alto-sax passages, and the lovely Old Ballad a Wheeler staple are among the highlights of another essential item for followers of Britain's most reluctant jazz hero.
A discreet virtuoso, Yates adapts skipping folk-fiddle melodies to trumpet, flugelhorn and tenor horn, and his engaging themes – full of light, fluttering figures – are compatibly supported by Bende's bell-like chording and Byrne's galloping low-register sounds on the bodhran drum and Latin-American cajon.
The displays on the four walls and the exhibits in the center are all built around various topics, like "Counterculture and Assimilation," which offers Miles Davis's inscribed flugelhorn, Dizzy Gillespie's bejeweled fez and a well-worn, road-decorated steamer trunk from Pearl Bailey; elsewhere, there's Count Basie's sporty yachting cap.