The cornett (Italian: cornetto, German: Zink) is a lip-reed wind instrument that dates from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, popular from 1500 to 1650. [10]

The name “cornetto” derives from corno, the horn or ivory from which instruments like the oliphant were made earlier in the Middle Ages. Renaissance cornetti were sometimes made of ivory …

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Matthew Manchester explains the cornetto, a musical instrument that flourished from the medieval period to the baroque. The cornetto is the platypus of the music world, with finger-holes like...

One of the most beautiful wind instrument ever made (in my opinion), its sound encloses a human voice, an oboe and a trombone. Modern masters playing this instrument, for example William …

Cornett, wind instrument sounded by lip vibration against a cup mouthpiece; it was one of the leading wind instruments of the period 1500–1670. It is a leather-covered conical wooden pipe …

I have been making cornetts since 2008, based on museum originals that reflect the playing and sound characteristics of the time, and instruments after my own design.