Cornet

Cornet

The cornet is a brass instrument very similar to the trumpet, distinguished by its conical bore, compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B♭. It is not related to the renaissance and early baroque cornett or cornetto.

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Famous quotes containing the word cornet:

    “I never saw youe madam laye aparte
    Your cornet black, in colde nor yet in heate,
    Sythe first ye knew of my desire so greate,
    Which other fances chac’d cleane from my harte.”
    —Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)

    “Sing unto the Lordwith the harp, with the harp, and the voice of a
    psalm.
    With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord,”
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm XCVIII (l. XCVIII, 5–6)