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
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 band consisted of a fiddle, drum and cornet.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Chef Chavez recommends making several cornets to keep in your pastry toolbox at all times.
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
Despite its aura, the drum looks modest and meek surrounded by cabinets chockablock with bassoons and oboes, cornets and bugles, not to mention the odd oliphant, ocarina and shofar.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2010
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
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Musical Instruments - Middle School
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