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
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
A 95-year-old cornet player has been honoured with a Guinness world record for his lifelong love of music.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2023
Expand the horizons of a cornet beyond chocolate work by using it as a tool for plating intricate dishes.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2023
The terrified mother pawned the cornet immediately and destroyed the pawn ticket.
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
Beneath it, tiny wild daisies and mint ornamented the grass with pink tassels and purple cornets.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2016
"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
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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Musical Instruments - High School
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