cornett

{{Infobox instrument | name = Cornett | image = Three cornetts.jpg | image_size = 250 | alt = | caption = Three different cornetts: mute cornett, curved cornett and tenor cornett. | background = brass | names = | classification = Brass instrument Horn | hornbostel_sachs = 423.212 | hornbostel_sachs_desc = Lip-reed aerophone with tone holes or keys and irregular/moderately conical bore | inventors = | developed = Since antiquity; from instruments made from animal bone or horn with finger holes, such as the coradoiz | timbre = | volume = | attack = | decay = | range =

{ \new Staff \with { \remove "Time_signature_engraver" } \clef treble \key c \major \cadenzaOn a1 \glissando d1 } The sounding range of the treble cornett | pitch = | related = | musicians = | builders = | articles = }} The cornett' (, ) is a lip-reed wind instrument that dates from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, popular from 1500 to 1650. Although smaller and larger sizes were made in both straight and curved forms, surviving cornetts are mostly curved, built in the treble size from in length, usually described as in G. The note sounded with all finger-holes covered is A, which can be lowered a further whole tone to G by slackening the embouchure. The name cornett comes from the Italian cornetto, meaning "small horn".