CORNET. (Ital. Cornetto; Fr. Cornet à pistons). The name was formerly given to a rude reed instrument of the oboe family, but is now applied to a brass instrument with cupped mouthpiece, intermediate between the French horn, trumpet, and bugle, of comparatively modern construction, and formerly called also Cornopean. It possesses the usual scale of open or harmonic notes, as follows:—
the real fundamental being the octave below the lowest here given, which is never made use of. It is...