[TPIN] Amateur/professional players, maybe some of those

[Allegro69]

Message: 18
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:54:03 -0400
From: "Rod Brawn" <r_brawn at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [TPIN] Amateur/professional players, maybe some of those
 reeds aren't so bad

Listmates,
    I think playing the trumpet in a band with a good accordian player,
perhaps with electonic accessories to modify the sound would be great.  I
mean the accordian is somewhere between a pipe organ and a piano.  It can
swell.  There is something like a breathing life to it.  Just an aside my
father used to love to play Hohner Melodica.  When he played it, it almost
sounded like a section in a big Band because of the articulation and the
crescendo's and diminuendos he could manage with it.  Maybe three or four
players with redesigned melodicas and electronic modification would make
sounds...... God help me perish the thought, this is supposed to be a list
in favour of trumpet players......
Ta ta for now,
Rod

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While not directly pertinent to the trumpet, lots of us trumpet players cut
our teeth working in squeezebox bands. For close to 50 years, many
accordionists have been playing the Cordovox. Played like an accordion, they
sound exactly like a Hammond B3 organ with many instrument effects. The bass
lines were played on the left buttons and sounded as good as what a Hammond
organist would do with the foot pedals. All joking aside, a good
accordionist (and there are many who are dynamite players) can make that
instrument smoke. Also, if they wanted, the instrument could actually sound
like a regular accordion. For this trumpet player, it was a great workout
and a lot of fun to play along side of a good Cordovox player.