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Cornet vs Flugelhorn - What's the difference?

cornet | flugelhorn |

As nouns the difference between cornet and flugelhorn

is that cornet is a musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat while flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same B-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. A bugle with valves.

cornet

English

(wikipedia cornet)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) cornet, diminutive of a popular reflex of (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
  • A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
  • A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK) an ice cream cone.
  • (obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
  • * Clarendon
    • A body of five cornets of horse.
  • A kind of organ stop.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) cornette, diminutive of corne, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The white headdress worn by the (Sisters of Charity).
  • (obsolete) The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
  • (historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).
    • Derived terms
    * cornetcy

    Anagrams

    * ----

    flugelhorn

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fluegelhorn *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same B-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. A bugle with valves.
  • * 1900 , Daniel E. McCarthy, Manual of Instructions for Quartermasters Serving in the Field [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC06323874&id=zuCFixqDM9QC&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=flugelhorn&as_brr=1]:
    • A flugelhorn may be furnished in lieu of the Eb trumpet, a euphonium in lieu of one alto, one Eb alto saxophone, and one Eb baritone saxophone in lieu of two coronets...

    Derived terms

    * flugelhornist

    See also

    * bugle * cornet * horn * saxhorn

    External links

    * ("flugelhorn" on Wikipedia)