noun. The cornet-à-pistons.

noun. In organ-building, a reed-stop of a bold, powerful tone.

noun. An obsolete name for the cornet-à-piston.

noun. cornet-à-piston

"Five or six small boys, with pea-shooters, and the cornopean player, got up behind; in front the big boys, mostly smoking, not for pleasure, but because they are now gentlemen at large, and this is the most correct public method of notifying the fact."

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