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  2. Cornet - Wikipedia

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    The sounds of the cornet and trumpet have grown closer together over time, and the former is now rarely used as an ensemble instrument: [14] in the first version of his ballet Petrushka (1911), Stravinsky gives a celebrated solo to the cornet; in the 1946 revision, he removed cornets from the orchestration and instead assigned the solo to the ...

  3. Cornett - Wikipedia

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    Like the trumpet, the cornett has a small cup-shaped mouthpiece, where the instrument is sounded with the player's lips. [19] Like many woodwind instruments, it has fingered tone holes (and rarely, keys) to determine the pitch by shortening the vibrating air column, although pitch can also be adjusted by varying the tension of the player's ...

  4. Piccolo trumpet - Wikipedia

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    The piccolo trumpet solo in the Beatles' "Penny Lane", which introduced the instrument to pop music, was played by David Mason. Paul McCartney was dissatisfied with the initial attempts at the song's instrumental fill (one of which is released on Anthology 2), and was inspired to use the instrument after seeing Mason's performance in a BBC television broadcast of the second Brandenburg ...

  5. Pocket trumpet - Wikipedia

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    Pocket trumpet in B-flat, with a 5-inch (13 cm) standard size bell and medium-large bore. The pocket trumpet is a B♭ or C trumpet that is constructed with the tubing wound into a much smaller coil than a standard trumpet, generally with a smaller diameter bell.

  6. Brass instrument - Wikipedia

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    Half-tube instruments have smaller bores in relation to tubing length and cannot easily or accurately play the fundamental tone. The second partial (first overtone) is the lowest note of each tubing length practical to play on half-tube instruments. The trumpet and horn are examples of half-tube brass instruments.

  7. Flugelhorn - Wikipedia

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    The flugelhorn is generally pitched in B♭, like most trumpets and cornets. It usually has three piston valves and employs the same fingering system as other brass instruments, although four-valve versions and rotary-valve versions also exist. It can therefore be played by trumpet and cornet players, although it has different playing ...

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