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.
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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.
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).
Beiderbecke's cornet style is often described by contrasting it with Armstrong's markedly different approach.
Besides himself at the cornet, LaRocca had Larry Shields, clarinet, Eddie Edwards, trombone, Ragas, piano, and Sbarbaro, drums.
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.
Beiderbecke switched between cornet and piano on that number, and then in September played only piano for his recording of " In A Mist ".