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2 unusual facts about Cornet


Hyacinth Richard Nugent, 2nd Baron Nugent of Riverston

However, he must have been rehabilitated, as he served as a Cornet Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough's Dragoons while in Spain.

Sir George Shiffner, 1st Baronet

He spent five years in the 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons as a Cornet (the rank of Cornet was replaced by Second Lieutenant in the Army Reform Act of 1871).


112th Fighter Squadron

It continued its NATO commitment, deploying six A-7D aircraft to RAF Sculthorpe, England in April 1983 for Operation Cornet Miami; eight A-7Ds in June–July 1986 for Cornet Pine, and thirteen A-7Ds in May–June 1989 for Cornet Pine.

1583 in music

Cornet virtuoso Luigi Zenobi relocates to Ferrara, becoming the most highly paid musician at the Este court.

Ambush of Geary

Cornet Francis Geary was the eldest son and heir of Admiral Sir Francis Geary and Mary Bartholomew.

Antoine Courtois

The renowned cornetist Herbert L. Clarke was given a Courtois cornet on joining the Queens’s Own Regimental Band in Toronto in 1883, where he served intermittently as cornetist for nine years.

Bloomingdale Cornet Band

A "cornet band" was a common designation for wind bands organized during the Gilded Age.

The band has retained the "Cornet" in its name, as has a handful of other similar bands in the United States, such as the Franklin Silver Cornet Band.

Burlington Concert Band

The Burlington Concert Band is a Vermont based band and was originally formed in 1851 as the Burlington Cornet Band under the leadership of J.B. Holmberg.

Castle Cornet

Tupper, F B, The Chronicles of Castle Cornet, Guernsey, 1851

Charles Leggett

He joined the Scots Guards Regimental Band a year after first hearing them at the Hove Exhibition in 1890, rising to become Band-Sergeant of the Scots Guards, and Principal Professor of Cornet at Kneller Hall of the Royal Military School of Music.

Charles Leggett (20 September 1874 - 29 November 1934) was a Brighton-born cornetist who became known as "The World's Finest Cornet Soloist," and who was the favorite cornet soloist of King Edward VII.

He was one of the first musicians hired by the BBC, in 1927, and stayed with them until his death, becoming principal cornet, deputy conductor and general supervisor of the BBC Wireless Symphony Orchestra.

Dick Cuthell

Cuthell became, along with Rico Rodriguez, the horn section for The Specials, playing cornet on their debut album, and staying with the band into their later incarnation as the Special A.K.A., playing on the hit single "Free Nelson Mandela", and the album In the Studio.

Dinosaurs of Romania

The discovery of dinosaur bones in a bauxite mine at Cornet-Brusturi, near Oradea (Bihor County) was made accidentally by two miners in 1978 during ore exploitation.

Edna White

At 11, after an invitation from Frank Damrosch, she entered the Institute of Musical Art (later the Juilliard School) in New York City, where, under the instruction of Adolphe Dubois, she switched from the cornet to the trumpet.

Edward Quillinan

After spending some time without any occupation, he entered the army as a cornet in a cavalry regiment, from which, after seeing some service at Walcheren, he passed into another regiment, stationed at Canterbury.

Elgar Howarth

Swedish trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger has premiered several of his works on cornet, including his Cornet Concerto, Canto, and Capriccio.

Enrique Peña Sánchez

In 1902 he moved to Havana, and founded the band La Juventud, with himself as director and cornet, Rogelio Solis (double bass), Félix González (figle), José Belén Puig (first clarinet), José Urfé (second clarinet), José de los Reyes (kettle drum) and Rufino Cárdenas (güiro).

George Edward Gouraud

In 1888, Thomas Edison sent his "Perfected" Phonograph to Gouraud in London and on 14 August 1888, Gouraud introduced the phonograph to London in a press conference, including the playing of a piano and cornet recording of Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made.

Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès

In St. Petersburg, he succeeded in entering the Knights Guards of the Empress as cornet.

Jean de Schulemberg

He attended a course of studies at the Academy of Sedan, but at the age of sixteen served as cornet (standard-bearer) to the Protestant Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, sovereign prince of Sedan, whom he followed at the siege of Vercelli in Piedmont (1614), and then at the battle of Prague, 8 November 1620.

John Elphinstone, 13th Lord Elphinstone

He succeeded his father as Lord Elphinstone in May 1813, and entered the army in 1826 as a cornet in the Royal Horse Guards.

Lyrichord Discs

Always a label that explored an eclectic range of musical styles, Lyrichord happened to be the label to record and release the first album of late folk/blues legend Dave Van Ronk, entitled “Skiffle in Stereo” (1957) with a band called the “Orange Blossom Jug Five” including Dave Van Ronk, guitar and vocals, Sam Charters cornet, guitar, Ann Danberg, washboard, Len Kunstadt, (co-owner of the Spivey Records label) on kazoo, and Russell Glynn, playing jug.

Memphis Nighthawks

He now lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and plays a cornet left to him by Ed "Doc" Kittrell, who was an inspiration to the Memphis Nighthawks.

Microtuner

The term also indicates a high-precision mechanical tuning device found on some vintage Conn brand brass and reed instruments (mostly cornets and alto saxophones).

Nevers' 2nd Regiment Band

The nucleus of the band's 24 members came from a cornet band organized in 1858 under D. Arthur Brown in Fisherville, now known as Penacook or Ward I of the city of Concord.

Palaeocursornis

The only known species, P. corneti, was described in 1984 based on a single bone (MTCO-P 1637) interpreted as the distal part of a left femur, found in Early Cretaceous (Berriasian rocks (dating to around 143 mya) from a mine at Cornet near Oradea in northwestern Romania.

Rice brothers

Despite the difficulties of their condition as well as the loss of their foster parents, John and Greg participated in "normal" childhood activities such as the Boy Scouts, took regular classes throughout their education, and even played cornet in the junior high and high school band.

Roger Webster

The piano was gradually pushed aside as he progressed with the cornet at Grimethorpe Colliery Junior Band.

Second English Civil War

On 3 June 1647 Cornet George Joyce of Thomas Fairfax's horse seized the King for the Army, after which the English Presbyterians and the Scots began to prepare for a fresh civil war, less than two years after the conclusion of the First Civil War this time against "Independency", as embodied in the Army.

Sir John Hamilton-Dalrymple, 5th Baronet

An army officer, he served as a cornet in the 28th Light Dragoons in 1795, rising through the ranks of lieutenant in 1797, captain in 1800 and then going on to half-pay in 1802 during the Peace of Amiens.

The Cornet

The Cornet is a peak on the south side of Pardo Ridge between Muckle Bluff and The Stadium, on Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.


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