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
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
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
People in the house were tormented almost to death by his incessant fumbling cornet practice.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Vocabulary lists containing cornet
Musical Instruments - Middle School
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Musical Instruments - High School
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