The Lebanese French trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf’s preferred instrument is a unique trumpet with four valves (one more than the usual three), which allows him to play the quarter tones of classical Arabic music.
,” the Lebanese French trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf said the other day at the Met, where he was taking in a display of extravagant, even bizarre, brass instruments. Maalouf, who is forty-two, lives in Paris and was in town for a concert. He had been curious about the museum’s horn collection, which includes not just the six-valve trombone—most have none—but also a vaguely bassoon-like thing with a bell decorated to look like a dragon’s mouth, and a tuba with two bells that resemble conjoined twins.
Maalouf’s father, Nassim Maalouf, a renowned soloist in both European and Arabic classical music, invented the four-valve trumpet that both men play. Ibrahim grew up listening to his father practice. One day, he asked if he could try. “My father said, ‘If you want me to teach you, yoube a trumpet player.’ I was seven. I didn’t know what that commitment meant.” He quickly showed promise, but there were bumps along the way.
In a sad turn of family melodrama at least as old as “The Jazz Singer,” Maalouf’s embrace of more modern and popular music contributed to an estrangement between father and son. For Nassim, who had no formal education outside of music, the trumpet had been a way out of rural poverty. “It was his tool to escape his destiny,” Maalouf said. “And he expected I would exactly continue his way of playing.” Today, they exchange only the occasional text. “We disagree on pretty much everything.
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