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
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
When using a viscous or thicker liquid for plating, a cornet may come in handy for assisting in accuracy and precision.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2023
The band consisted of a fiddle, drum and cornet.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
To maximize a large parchment paper sheet, Chef Chavez says you can make eight cornets out of one sheet of paper.
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
"Those tubas, they cost £8,000. Even the cornets cost £3,000. So we are managing at the moment on a day-to-day basis, but we are not really putting any money away."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2015
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing cornet
Musical Instruments - Middle School
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