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cornet

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An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.

A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-a-piston.

A certain organ stop or register.

A cap of paper twisted at the end, used by retailers to inclose small wares.

A troop of cavalry; -- so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.

The standard of such a troop.

The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in 1871.

A headdress

A square cap anciently worn as a mark of certain professions.

A part of a woman's headdress, in the 16th century.

See Coronet, 2.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet. Bill Bryson

According to Farkas the mouthpiece should have 2/3 upper lip and 1/3 lower lip (French horn), 2/3 lower lip and 1/3 upper lip (trumpet and cornet), and more latitude for lower brass (trombone, baritone, and tuba). Source: Internet

Beiderbecke's cornet style is often described by contrasting it with Armstrong's markedly different approach. Source: Internet

Besides himself at the cornet, LaRocca had Larry Shields, clarinet, Eddie Edwards, trombone, Ragas, piano, and Sbarbaro, drums. Source: Internet

Critic Frank Murphy argues that many of the same characteristics that mark Beiderbecke on the cornet mark him on the keyboard: the uncharacteristic fingering, the emphasis on inventive harmonies, and the correlated choruses. Source: Internet

Beiderbecke switched between cornet and piano on that number, and then in September played only piano for his recording of " In A Mist ". Source: Internet

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