This article is about the modern brass instrument. For the organ stop, see Cornet (organ stop). For other uses, see Cornet (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with comet, cornett, cornette, coronet, or kornet.
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Cornet
Cornet in B♭
Brass instrument
Classification
Wind
brass
aerophone
Hornbostel–Sachs classification
423.232 (Valved aerophone sounded by lip vibration)
Developed
Early 19th century from the post horn
Playing range
Written range:
(lower and higher notes are possible)
Related instruments
Trumpet
post horn
bugle
flugelhorn
flumpet
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^"pronunciation of cornet in the Oxford Learner's Dictionaries".
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