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n. A trumpet-like wind instrument used in European music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
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The cornett, cornetto, or zink is an early wind instrument that dates from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, popular from 1500 to 1650. It was used in what are now called alta capellas or wind ensembles. It is not to be confused with the trumpet-like cornet.
The sound of the cornett is produced by lip vibrations against a cup mouthpiece. A cornett consists of a conical wooden pipe covered in leather, is about 24 inches long, and has finger holes and a small horn or ivory mouthpiece.
The cornett, cornetto, or zink is an early wind instrument.
Cornett may also refer to:
- Cornett (surname)
- Cornett, Herefordshire, hamlet in Herefordshire, England
- Cornette, a historical military term (spelled cornett), from the French language for a " small cavalry unit", its guidon, or its lowest ranking officer, the cornet
Cornett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Abbie Cornett (born 1966), American politician
- Betty Jane Cornett (1932–2006), American baseball player
- Bill Cornett, American musician
- Brack Cornett (outlaw) (died 1888), American outlaw
- Brad Cornett (born 1969), American baseball player
- Flip Cornett (1957–2004), American guitarist
- Jonathan Webster Cornett (1883–1973), Canadian mayor
- Marshall E. Cornett (1898–1947), American businessman and politician
- Mick Cornett (born c. 1958), American politician
- Natasha Cornett (born 1979), American murderer
- Norman Cornett, Canadian educator
- R. Orin Cornett (1913–2002), American physicist
- Samantha Cornett (born 1991), Canadian squash player
Usage examples of "cornett".
Even his gunner, a gloomy Kentucky mountain boy named Cornett, who seldom spoke and seemed to be using a foreign language when he did, climbed smiling out of the rear seat.
But he had only a few more seconds to pull off something miraculous and even as these vertiginous thoughts whirled through his shocked brain and he jerked futilely at the controls, the fire flared all along the broken wing, and in the earphones he heard Cornett screaming something frightened but incomprehensible.
Nesby Cornett Janes, for all she made possible for others, and especially in thanks for her daughter.