He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays eight instruments including piano, guitar, bass guitar, percussion, trombone, tuba, flugelhorn and trumpet.
These include the classical guitar, heckelphone, flugelhorn, cornet, harpsichord, and organ.
The flugelhorn replaced the trumpet of the traditional brass section because it is mellower and less assertive.
This adds a useful low range that, coupled with the flugelhorn's dark sound, extends the instrument's abilities.
The first trumpet part also doubles on flugelhorn and piccolo trumpet.
In his teens, he switched to flugelhorn, then bass, and finally guitar.
He has occasionally performed solos on a trumpet or flugelhorn mouthpiece.
Both trumpets double on flugelhorn and the trombone doubles on tenor, bass, and trigger trombone.
