Cornone

Cornone (It.) (Fr.: basse de cornet a bouquin; Ger.: Basszink, grosser Quartzink, Grosszink), a large *curved cornett in shape of an obtuse S, pitched in d0, a 5th below the ordinary cornett, usually supplied with a key for the little finger which yielded c0 when closed, with a compass of c0-d2. Its main period of activity was from 1550 to 1650, but in Germany it lingered on until the 18th c., when its pitch was only a 4th below the type instr. (cf. cornettino). Majer in 1732 could still write…