I have now played the cornet for Roberts Bakery Band for 3 years and have played the cornet sinse the age of 8. Playing the cornet give me alot of satisfaction as it is not too small and can easly be transported to those wonderful concerts. People who are wondering if they should start a brass instrument should think 'if they have time to watch the TV they have time to play a cornet'. I play a Courtois instrument that the Fodens band play on. After getting a little experience on the cornet you can join a Brass Band. This is a wonderful social item as there are the annual contests and the Whit Friday marches that take place every year. ...  Read the complete review

I have been playing the cornet for a long time now. Longer than I care to admit even to myself. In all of that time my dream machine has always been the Boosey and Hawkes Sovereign. The first one I actually had was not a cornet but a Flugel. Beautiful instrument but not really the subject of this opinion. My first Sovereign cornet came into my grubby mitts only 3 years ago. The band I joined then had just re-equipped with some nasty French pretend instruments (Courtois or some such thing). As a consequence, they had lots of older instruments available and I was presented with my first Sov cornet. As with nearly all Boosey brass instruments the valves ...  Read the complete review