On cornet – The Millbrook Independent

On cornet – The Millbrook Independent

by Kevin T McEneaney      for Matt Finley The cornet descends from the herdsman’s horn, from about twenty thousand years ago, usually notched from an old, dead goat’s horn. * The cornet is quite difficult to play and requires an expert musician whose lips can capture exact, correct pitch and produce equality in the sound. * In the Renaissance, they were made of wood, preferably from dense grain of a pear tree. Bach wrote eleven cantatas for it. …