I felt Aaron was commenting with his tongue firmly placed in cheek. 😉

Piccolo ("cornettino"): C4 to D6 (sometimes pushed up to F6 or G6). Soprano: G3 to D6. Alto and "mute": F3 to C6. Tenor: D3 (or C3, depending on the model) to G5. There wasn't a bass (or was extremely rare: just three specimens, tuned one octave below the soprano, has arrived to us, and it doesn't seem to have ever been called for by composers), that role was taken by the serpent family, albeit trombones actually were the most common complement to the cornett family: typical brass ensembles back between 16th and 17th Century were usually composed of soprano and tenor cornett and tenor and bass trombone, or soprano cornett and alto, tenor and bass trombones.

@@TenorCantusFirmus Isnt the bass the serpent?

@@mogalelebethe6082 It usually is considered as a separate family of instruments.

The cornetto and the modern brass cornet have pretty much nothing in common except the name. Comparing their "efficiency" doesn't make much sense, since they're used in completely different music and different contexts, and alongside different instruments. But the cornetto uses a lot less air than modern brass instruments. It's really not an instrument you want to approach with force, rather with extreme delicacy

@@LeTromboniste0 So nothing for the brassband world with their hysterical loud dynamics, unless that has changed since I played in one.

😄 But so worth the effort! 🥰

"like the oboe has" - I think that you mean a double reed? Well, you CAN take a reed from an oboe or so and somehow put it on the cornetto where the mouthpiece usually goes, and then produce some notes on the instrument, just for fun. I did fool around like that with a cornetto once, and the other way around with a trumpet mouthpiece on an oboe or so. But the instrument and mouthpiece are not adjusted to each other AT ALL, so don't expect to get a clear sound nor any in-tune scale out of it! (Or not with a ton of fiddling, which basically amounts to (re)inventing an instrument.) If you are looking for playing a 16th-century instrument like the cornetto, but with a reed, you are better served to look for the proper reed instruments of the time: shawm/pommer (oboe ancestors) or dulcian (family of bassoon ancestors).

@@SebastianSchleussner Thank you! Useful indeed.

Hej Robin, visst är det ett härligt instrument?! Var bor du någonstans? Om någorlunda i närheten av Uppsala så skulle du nog kunna prova på någon av mina zinkor/sinkor [stavningen varierar :)] någon gång. Annars finns det zinkenister, även profs, på olika håll i landet, eller du skulle kunna komma till någon workshop/renässansmusikvecka med blåslärare. Det finns exempelvis en i Danmark nästa vecka (för sent för anmälan till i år tyvärr) och jag organiserar en i Tyskland kring påsk. It's not trivial to play by any means... The small mouthpiece creates localized stress, which makes it easy to exhaust oneself if using suboptimal technique - easier than on a larger mouthpiece like a trombone, in my thinking. But I think having some background in brass instruments and/or other winds helps a lot (I started playing it in good earnest after recorder and trumpet lessons, for example). As does taking lessons with a good teacher - which is possible online nowadays. It's a long time since I tried out a friend's "kohorn" so my memory is a bit blurry, but I did find it quite easy to cross over (at least for generating notes, which is all I tried) so I would indeed say that you are on a good way with that experience! A similarity beyond the small mouthpiece is that the instrument itself does not give one well-defined pitch for one fingering (rather something within a third or so) so that one must listen and fine-adjust a lot with one's lips and diaphragm. Still less wiggle room than on the kohorn if I remember that correctly, there you HAVE to make adjustments with the one hand in the "bell", don't you?

@@SebastianSchleussner Hej Sebastian! Jag bor i Upplands Bro en bit norr om Stockholm med närhet till Uppsala. Är egentligen Pianospelare i grund och botten som är relativt nybörjare inom Trumpetinstrument. Jag tycker det vore jätteroligt att träffas och testspela Zinka. Vad är din uppfattning om Resin Zinkorna utav Monk? Är de bra som övningsinstrument?

Mitt Horn har ett omfång på ungefär 10 toner men några fler går säkert att få fram med bättre ambis så fem toner med de tre hålen och med stoppteknik i olika lägen ner till en kvint 🙂

Hvordan stemmer den?Kan man intonere mens man spiller?

It's surely a matter of taste. I am quite happy with my 16 years old Fanciullacci for instance, but he has made major changes - improvements according to pro players I have talked to - in the time since.

The early music shop in Bradford

A gentleman named Ricardo Simian creates and takes orders for 3D printed cornetti on his website. He also makes a slightly more "developed" version of the instrument, which he calls the "Perfetto," if that kind of thing interests you.

@@AVENGERxerozero Thanks!

@@mazadan Thanks!

@@mazadan One of my favourite shops and only about ten miles from my house.

In Italy cornetto ice cream has been legendary as the musical instrument for 2 generations of Italian boys and girls