cornett
noun
variants:
or cornetto
or less commonly cornet
plural cornetts
or cornettos
also cornets
Definition of cornett
1
: a usually treble wind instrument used especially for church choral music of the 16th and 17th centuries with a cup mouthpiece, a straight or slightly curved tapering leather-covered wooden or ivory body with no flare, and seven finger holes
— called also zink, zinke