cornet
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An inventive trumpet and cornet player, Armstrong shifted jazz away from an ensemble experience with collective improvisation to one focused on solo performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord the King.
From BBC ● May 5, 2023
His most recent release, in 2022, was a trio album, “Heart Is a Melody,” with Kirk Knuffke on cornet and Matt Wilson on drums.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
Pastry chefs kept the cornet somewhat of a secret in the mid-to-late 1850s in Europe until the French-born chef Urbain François Dubois brought the handy kitchen hack to light.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2023
The band consisted of a fiddle, drum and cornet.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
According to Chef Chavez, cornets are especially great for working with chocolate.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2023
Gougères were served, along with Keller’s signature cornets: salmon-tartare-filled ice-cream cones the size of golf tees.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 26, 2017
Mr. Morris played double bass; his co-curator, Stephen Haynes, fluegelhorn and cornets; and Bern Nix, hollow-body guitar.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2015
In the La Pasion Sevilla brass band, all the cornets are sopranos.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2012
He did not pay any attention because he was listening to the forming of the troops, the sound of the cornets, and the voices of command that were shattering the dawn.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Musical Instruments - Middle School
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