Trumpet Recordings (Historic)

Trumpet Recordings (Historic) It was the cornet that was used in early recordings, and sometimes the bugle, rather than the trumpet. The cornet and trumpet are very similar, but the cornet, with a slightly more conical bore, is easier to play and givesa more mellow tone. Emil Cassi, of Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, did offer some bugle calls on the trumpet (according to Koenigsberg [1987]) on an Edison cylinder made before May 1899. In Dixieland jazz groups, cornets were typically present…