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How to pronounce cornet in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms horn, trump, trumpet
Type of brass, brass instrument
Has types serpent
Derivation cornetist

Examples of cornet

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It was there that young Louis first put his lips to the mouthpiece of a cornet.
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Bateman-Hanbury joined the Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry as a cornet in 1847.
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Emile Christian played both cornet and trombone with the Papa Jack Laine bands.
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The cornet band made its debut as part of this summer's bicentennial celebration.
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Cornet launched a nationwide network in Yerevan and 18 biggest cities of Armenia.
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Albert Walters and his cornet took part in countless jazz funerals over the years.
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Cornet player Bolden, who died in 1931, pioneered jazz playing in New Orleans.
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He played cornet and wanted to join the jazz band at Stockton's Franklin High.
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Louis Armstrong's stage personality matched his flashy cornet and trumpet playing.
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More examples
  • A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
  • (cornetist) trumpeter: a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet
  • The cornet is a brass instrument very similar to the trumpet, distinguished by its conical bore, compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B. It is not related to the renaissance and early baroque cornett or cornetto.
  • Cornet was originally the third and lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, after captain and lieutenant. A cornet is a new and junior officer.
  • A Cornet is an organ stop most commonly of principal or flute tone quality that contains multiple ranks of pipes.
  • A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat; A piece of paper twisted to be used in a container; A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK) an ice cream cone
  • A cornet seen or heard in a dream, denotes kindly attentions from strangers.
  • (1) 18th-century term for a cavalry regiment's standard or guidon; (2) rank title formerly applied to the junior officer of cavalry entrusted to bear the regimental standard (see also regimental color). ...
  • A brass instrument similar to the trumpet but shorter and fatter, employing a conical rather than cylindrical bore