The show's theme music, a cornet piece, accompanied by a brass band plus clarinet and double bass, reminiscent of northern band music, was written by Eric Spear.

The cornet was originally derived from the post horn around 1820 in France.

The first notable virtuoso player was Jean-Baptiste Arban, who studied the cornet extensively and published La grande méthode complète de cornet à piston et de saxhorn, commonly referred to as the Arban method, in 1864.

It is a predecessor of the post horn from which the cornet evolved and was used like a bugle to signal orders on the battlefield.

This has been exacerbated by the debate as to whether the saxhorn family was truly new, or rather a development of members of the previously existing cornet and tuba families.

" According to Ralph Berton, he was " as usual gazing off into his private astronomy ," but his cornet, Condon famously quipped, sounded " like a girl saying yes.

The critic and musician Digby Fairweather sums up Beiderbecke's musical legacy, arguing that " with Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke was the most striking of jazz's cornet ( and of course, trumpet ) fathers ; a player who first captivated his 1920s generation and after his premature death, founded a dynasty of distinguished followers beginning with Jimmy McPartland and moving on down from there.

" He argues that this stubbornness was behind Beiderbecke's decision not to switch from cornet to trumpet when many other musicians, including Armstrong, did so.

Joe " King " Oliver ( May 11, 1885 – April 10, 1938 ) was a jazz cornet player and bandleader.

#" Singin ' the Blues ( Till My Daddy Comes Home )" was recorded in 1931 with Rex Stewart on cornet

“ Only four years before I learned to play the trumpet in the Waif's Home, or in 1909, the first great jazz orchestra was formed in New Orleans by a cornet player named Dominick James LaRocca.

In 1977, the ODJB classic " Singin ' the Blues ", co-written by ODJB pianist J. Russel Robinson, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in a landmark 1927 recording by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet and Eddie Lang on guitar, as Okeh 40772-B, recorded on February 4, 1927.

He was influenced by early New Orleans trumpet / cornet players Bunk Johnson and Joe " King " Oliver.

His father, Niels Jørgensen, was a house painter and amateur musician who, with his abilities as a fiddler and cornet player, was in strong demand for local celebrations.

The cornet is sometimes erroneously considered to be the " valved version " of the bugle, although it was derived from the French cornet de poste ( post horn ).

Young Nick was attracted to the music of the brass bands in New Orleans and covertly taught himself to play cornet against the wishes of his father who hoped his son would go into a more prestigious profession.

In April 1745 Burgoyne joined the newly raised 1st Royal Dragoons as a cornet, a commission he did not have to pay for as it was newly created.

He was named a cornet in the Russian cavalry regiment " Brunswick-Cuirassiers " when Anthony Ulrich became Russian generalissimo in 1739.

In 1977, Robinson's composition " Singin ' the Blues " was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in a 1927 recording by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet as Okeh 40772-B.

The young Nichols heard the early recordings of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band ( which was not in fact “ original ,” but was the first “ jazz ” band to record ), and later those of Bix Beiderbecke, and these had a strong influence on the young cornet player.

For example, the flugelhorn differs from the cornet by having a higher percentage of its tubing length conical than does the cornet, in addition to possessing a wider bore than the cornet.

The cornet is a brass instrument very similar to the trumpet, distinguished by its conical bore, compact shape, and mellower tone quality.

The Shepherd's Crook model is preferred by cornet traditionalists.

The cornet also features in the British-style concert band, unlike the American concert band or wind band, where it is replaced by the trumpet.

It can thus be played without too much trouble by trumpet and cornet players, though some adaptation to their playing style may be needed.

* Orion ( chamber music piece ), piece for trumpet / cornet trio by Ernest S. Williams ( 1881-1947 )

A native of Davenport, Iowa, Beiderbecke taught himself to play cornet largely by ear, leading him to adopt a non-standard fingering that some critics have connected to his original sound.

From these records Bix Beiderbecke first learned to love hot jazz ; he taught himself to play cornet by listening to Nick LaRocca's horn lines.

Beiderbecke's cornet style is often described by contrasting it with Armstrong's markedly different approach.

He and his wife took in seasonal boarders, he found work playing cornet at the town's camp revival meetings, and he supplemented his income by selling his paintings to tourists.

Where more junior officers were employed as deputies to the lieutenant, they went by many names, including second lieutenant, sub-lieutenant, ensign and cornet.

His older brother Jack Carey was a trombone player and bandleader ; Mutt was playing cornet in his brother's band by about 1912.

On the outbreak of the English Civil War, he took up arms for Parliament and James Temple obtained a position for him as a cornet in the cavalry troop commanded by Temple ’ s cousin John Fiennes ( the son of his uncle, Viscount Saye and Sele ).

On February 4, 1927, Lang featured in the recording of " Singin ' the Blues " by Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke on cornet.

Prokofiev also used the cornet, viola d ' amore and mandolins in the ballet, adding an Italianate flavor to the music.

The valves allowed for melodic playing throughout the register of the cornet.

The modern trumpet has valves that allow it to play the same notes and fingerings as the cornet.

The valves change the length of the vibrating column and provide the cornet with the ability to play chromatically.

Cylindrical piston valves called Perinet valves ( after their inventor, François Perinet ), are used to change the length of tube in the playing of most brass instruments, particularly the trumpet-like members of the family ( cornet, flugelhorn, saxhorn, etc.

In March 1901 he patented a cornet unusual in that the valves were of unequal lengths.

The malleability and acoustic properties of brass have made it the metal of choice for musical instruments such as the trombone, tuba, trumpet, cornet, euphonium, tenor horn, and French horn which are collectively known as the brass within an orchestra.

This family includes all of the modern brass instruments except the trombone: the trumpet, horn ( also called the French horn ), euphonium, and tuba, as well as the cornet, flügelhorn, tenor horn ( alto horn ), baritone horn, sousaphone, mellophone, and the old saxhorn.

This includes the flugelhorn, cornet, tenor horn ( alto horn ), horn, euphonium and tuba.

The name cornet derives from corne, meaning horn, itself from Latin cornus.

According to Farkas the mouthpiece should have 2 / 3 upper lip and 1 / 3 lower lip ( French horn ), 2 / 3 lower lip and 1 / 3 upper lip ( trumpet and cornet ), and more latitude for lower brass ( trombone, baritone, and tuba ).

As with the other conical-bore instruments, the cornet, flugelhorn, horn, and tuba, the euphonium's tubing gradually increases in diameter throughout its length, resulting in a softer, gentler tone compared to cylindrical-bore instruments such as the trumpet, trombone, sudrophone, and baritone horn.

The word ‘ cornet ’, literally ‘ little horn ’, suggests an animal-horn ancestry for the instrument.

With the exception of the bass trombone, all of the instruments in United Kingdom brass band music ( including cornet, flugelhorn, tenor horn, euphonium, baritone horn, tenor trombone, and even the bass tuba ) are notated in treble clef as transposing instruments in either B or E.

Ferde became proficient on a wide range of instruments including piano ( his favored instrument ), violin, viola ( he became a violist in the LA Symphony ), baritone horn, alto horn and cornet.