The cornetto — not to be confused with the cornet, the brass instrument similar to a trumpet — dates back to the medieval era, and was popular in musical ensembles from 1500 to 1650, when it ...

The 19-year-old, who plays with the Rowntree Band in York, has made an appeal for help to track down the rare instrument, which would cost more than £1,000 to replace.

Boston Musical Instrument Manufactory was formed when the E.G. Wright Company and Graves & Company merged in 1869. By 1902, the company name was changed to the Boston Musical Instrument Company.

Mattapoisett has had a town band since the mid-1800s. It’s likely it was formed the same year the town was incorporated: 1857. Archeological forensics notwithstanding, what we do have is very ...

This cornet bears inscriptions of Courtois and J. Howard Foote. J. Howard Foote, musical instrument dealer in New York and Chicago, was the sole Courtois importer in the United States in the 1880s and ...