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
Headed by a local teenage cornet player, those in the funeral procession sang Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - amended slightly to include references to Wasdale.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2024
The farmers and miners got to hear the most intoxicating music on Earth from brassy cornet players and driving saxophonists, exotic trombone mutes, squealing trumpets and sultry clarinets.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
On “The Sphinx,” their two voices entwine in an off-kilter unison, Cherry’s pocket cornet doubling Coleman’s plastic saxophone.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
People in the house were tormented almost to death by his incessant fumbling cornet practice.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Made from silicone-coated parchment, cornets can hold liquids well, without leaks or spills, and maintain shape despite contact with heat.
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
By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived--no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Musical Instruments - Middle School
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