The
soprano cornet is a
brass instrumentA brass instrument is a musical instrument whose sound is produced by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips...
very similar to the standard Bcornet.
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The
soprano cornet is a
brass instrumentA brass instrument is a musical instrument whose sound is produced by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips...
very similar to the standard Bcornet.
The soprano cornet is a
transposing instrumentA transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which written notes are read at a pitch different from concert pitch, which a non-transposing instrument, such as a piano, would play. On a transposing instrument, a concert C is written as a different note; the concert pitch that is played for a...
in E , pitched higher than the standard B cornet. The soprano cornet can often be found playing lead or descant parts in ensembles.
One soprano cornet is usually seen in brass bands/silver bands.
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- http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fabbakiwi.tripod.com%2Fid7.html&date=2009-08-19 Introduction to the E soprano cornet by Bram Gay original from Sounding Brass, Issue 6, 1977.