Definitions

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  • noun A trumpet-like wind instrument used in European music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.

Etymologies

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Old French cornet.

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Examples

  • You will be in your apartment and 40ish and wonder why you are not Bill Gates. bobbie cornett

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  • HUNTINGTON -- Free trumpet, cornett and other brass instrument lessons are being offered at the Salvation Army in Huntington.

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  • Instruments include the rich-toned lirone (a 12-string gamba, played like a cello, that produces multi-string chords), recorders, guitars, harpsichord, theorbos (long-necked lutes) and cornett (a curved, wooden wind instrument not to be confused with the trumpetlike cornet).

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  • Detlef Hagge (cornett), Fritz Brodersen (renaissance trombone), Harald Strutz (renaissance trombone)

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