ABSTRACT
One of the enormous advantages of English is that instrument makers adopted words from so many languages, and as a result instrument makers do often, when adopting a new instrument adopt its name with it. On the cornett, and indeed on the sackbut and the trumpet, instrument makers do have the knowledge that instrument makers need, instrument makers do have more cheese than holes. Usually the only Baroque violins instrument makers see are those of the Bach or later periods and they are usually played with techniques and styles more suited to Leopold Mozart or even to Leopold Auer, still less to Tartini or any of his predecessors. Horns are not really relevant to the early Baroque, for they were only beginning to come in by the end of the seventeenth century but the problem lies even more with the player who hand-stops, they cannot lip reliably.
