cornett

noun

variants or cornetto or less commonly cornet

plural cornetts or cornettos also cornets

1

: a usually treble wind instrument used especially for church choral music of the 16th and 17th centuries with a cup mouthpiece, a straight or slightly curved tapering leather-covered wooden or ivory body with no flare, and seven finger holes

called also zink, zinke

2

Cornett plural Cornetts : an organ reed stop of 2′ pitch or 4′ pitch imitating the cornett

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