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

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

This made saliva flow into the horn which made the cornet player very angry.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith