The cornett, cornetto, or zink is a wind instrument that dates from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, popular from 1500 to 1650.
Three different cornetts: mute cornett, curved cornett and tenor cornett.
Mouthpieces from the side
Mouthpieces top. Bottom mute cornett.
Ivory Cornetto in A, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator. The pitch of the vibration is determined by the length of the tube and by manual modifications of the effective length of the vibrating column of air. In the case of some wind instruments, sound is produced by blowing through a reed; others require buzzing into a metal mouthpiece, while yet others require the player to blow into a hole at an edge, which splits the air column and creates the sound.
Erke, wind instrument of Argentina
The bell of a B-flat clarinet