Pacho Flores - Mellow Fruits

Top trumpet and cornet player, Pacho Flores, lends insight into the rising profile of the cornet and its four-valve version in orchestral performance

It is an absolute pleasure for me to write these words about the new line of four-valve cornets developed by Stomvi. This family includes instruments in Bb, C, D, Eb, F and G, and offers innovation, technical accuracy, richness of timbre and flexibility over their entire range.

With these instruments, we can experience new technical possibilities to do our jobs, which will directly affect the artistic and musical results. They allow us to be more creative and to explore all of the musical concerns that we have had for a long time when we seek to interpret new repertoire. It is now possible to solve these concerns at the highest level of performance. As a result, each of us will be the creator of a new chapter in our own artistic life and, for me, these cornets have become a necessity because I always use them when I perform a recital accompanied by piano, guitar, strings or symphony orchestra...

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