This makes for a curious Google experience. There is a U.S. patent
(#4993303) by this name. See a description - no photo, too bad - of a
brass instrument at http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4993303.html
The curiosity is in another google hit:
http://www.elmcoralumni.org/news.htm
This page shows a photo of a brass instrument that I took to be a real
hornette, but it looks more like a cornet traveling about 3/4 the speed
of light. But that's not why google turned up this website. Much lower
down on the page I see a reference to a person whose name is Ms.
Hornette Washington. Go figure.
David Goldberg
John Mason wrote:
I appeal to your collective wisdom, folks.
I've recently interviewed a musician who grew up in
the UK and, as an English-speaking white, in South
Africa, which, at the time, was a British dominion.
He told me that he first played a brass instrument in
a Salvation Army Band. He called it a hornette. I
asked him if that was the same thing as a tenor horn
or alto horn or E flat horn, and he said he didn't
know. Are any of you familiar with the hornette?
Thanks. --John
John Mason
Charlottesville, Virginia
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