This is a super cool find. We've got a small assembly of London locals playing some Bach in a mixed trumpet ensemble, check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtijxeeIeWw
What's really awesome? There's 3 natural trumpets chilling in the back. These are the modern take on the natural trumpet, I believe they have a single valve/rotor. The ensemble itself is, I think, 7 trumpets, 3 natural trumpets, 1 picc, and four flugelhorns. The mixed sound is absolutely stunning. What I found especially surprising is the natural trumpets have the timbre closer to the piccolo trumpet than the rest of the crew so there's a really pretty timbre stew in the middle range of this piece made up of trumpet, flugel, and natural horn and glazed with some piccolo trumpet to taste.
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