Interesting video about the Echo Cornet
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Great video. It is nice that my cornet can hang on your wall instead of lying in my closet...
I wanna hear a fourth valve trill with that.
The only time I've seen an echo cornet in performance, it was in the hands of the trumpeter in a mariachi band. There were songs originally written for two trumpets in a call-and-response style, and he would use the echo cornet on those, and play the second trumpet part through the echo bell. The part that probably made it work better is that he had a full size second bell and a proper mute, so there were no weird intonation issues beyond what the mute caused. I am willing to bet the full second bell was salvaged from another instrument and then retrofitted to the echo cornet, but it did solve the problem.
The only use I can think of is as a talking point on one's wall of many things
Hello Trent. Former US Army bandsman here. On military holidays like Veterans Day and Memorial Day, it's fairly common for "Echo Taps" to be played by two trumpeters, with the echo player standing some distance away. (My interpretation is that the echo represents a response from those who didn't get to come home.) I've heard of military units with a single duty bugler where a variation would be played on an echo cornet or similar double-bell instrument with the echo muted. Obviously a purely ceremonial niche, but one that makes more sense to me than other ceremonial instruments like herald trumpets.
I WAS JUST LOOKING INTO ONE!!! (sidenote- that terrible SAI Musical Inc also has one in stock)
Not going to lie, I thought my headphones broke the first time Trent used the second bell valve
hi trent, watching your videos for a while has gotten me to pick up a trumpet yesterday! thank you for inspiring me!
Love it. i get to learn much while laughing nearly the entire time :)
Cool! I have never seen one of those.
I know an instrument repairer who used parts from one of these Indian echo cornets to make a Getzen echo cornet. He used the fourth valve and the echo mute and added them to a Getzen cornet. It worked well.
Interesting. The echo growth sounds like a cornet with grandma’s old unwashed socks stuffed into the bell. Could we start calling that a register, like registers on organs? And could we have more? I mean, how about a cornet with many registers?
An older fellow in town band I know has one of these restored from the 1920's. The only times I saw him use it were to play the Vanished Army by Kenneth Alford so he could play the muted heralds as well as the main melody. Quite fascinating to see trent's take on the instrument!
I really like this instrument and the mellophonuim😍
I have long marveled at the extent of your wonderful collection, not only at the scope of what you have, but also the amount of money it must represent. Wow!
it seems to do the same job as a double bell trumpet with less versatility. with one of those, you can use whatever mutes you want.
Ah, how interesting! When I saw the title here, it piqued my interest immediately. I'm an organist, and the "echo cornet" is a somewhat uncommon (these days anyway) stop you'll find on some organs. Possibly more commonly in North German/Dutch organs of the baroque era? That may be pulled right out my arse though. At any rate, this video illustrates quite clearly where the nomenclature for that stop came from. A "cornet" is a combination stop extremely common and necessary for quite a lot of organ repertoire, but it can tend to be a rather loud voice, meant for monody/solo voice above a softer accompanying stop combination. The reason for this is that it isn't actually just one rank of pipes, but rather typically a combination of 4 to 5 pipes at different pitch levels along the overtone series which, when combined in proper tune, produce a fairly loud, sometimes piercing sound that is roughly analogous to the sound of the orchestral cornet itself. Roughly. Anyway to the point here, the stop we have called the ECHO cornet is usually just a much smaller scale combination of ranks that effectively produces a tamer, quieter sound of approximately the same timbre. Some organs, especially in the more modern traditions of building, have an entire division/department called an "echo," usually mounted as an antiphonal extension on the opposite side of the room, where you're quite likely to find an echo cornet stop. So I've known many organists who assume that it was labeled as such simply because it's in the "echo" department. However that same department is more often called simply the antiphonal department, but you'd still see an echo cornet stop (if indeed you see one at all).
what a beautiful instrument
This seems cool. Also could be good for practicing like in an apartment or where ever you can't make a lot of noise