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 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.

The cornet was invented by adding valves to the post horn in 1814.

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.

Solo and 1st B-flat cornets are printed on one part ( originally titled " 1st cornet "), but one player is required for solo and one for 1st.

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

The conical bore of the cornet is primarily responsible for its characteristic warm, mellow tone, which can be distinguished from the more penetrating sound of the trumpet.

This slight difference in instrumentation derives from the British concert band's heritage in military bands, where the highest brass instrument is always the cornet.

" Louis departed greatly from all cornet players in his ability to compose a close-knit individual 32 measures with all phrases compatible with each other …," Spurrier told the biographers Sudhalter and Evans, " so Bix and I always credited Louis as being the father of the correlated chorus: play two measures, then two related, making four measures, on which you played another four measures related to the first four, and so on ad infinitum to the end of the chorus.

* Blues Five Spot ( 1984, unissued recordings from 1958 – 61, with various saxophonists and Thad Jones, cornet )

Even Louis Armstrong switched over from his more usual cornet to the slide whistle for a chorus on a couple of recordings with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.

On May 15, 1915, Tom Brown's Band from Dixieland opened up at Lamb's Cafe at Clark & Randolph Streets in Chicago, with Ray Lopez, cornet and manager ; Tom Brown, trombone and leader ; Gussie Mueller clarinet, Arnold Loyacano piano and string bass ; and Billy Lambert on drums.

He switched from the cornet to the baritone horn ) with Strassner instructing him on that instrument.

Captain Willington's cornet from the Tamworth garrison took a mare, saddle and bridle from John Watkin, while Captain Willington's soldiers took a horse worth £ 5 from Thomas Bodington.

In January 2008, keyboard and cornet player Phil Sumner was admitted to hospital in Leeds after being knocked unconscious when he attempted a stage dive from a 12-foot PA system.

By that time, Nance had switched from trumpet to cornet.

Dara played the cornet on the track " Life's A Bitch " from Nas's debut album Illmatic in 1994 and on the song " Dance " from God's Son, a posthumous tribute to Anne Jones his former wife and Nas's mother.

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.

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.

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.

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.