He played the cornet in the school band.

他在学校乐队吹奏短号。

By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums.

七点以前乐队到达，决不是什么五小乐队，而是配备齐全的整班，簧管、号、萨克斯管、大小提琴、短号、短笛、高低音铜鼓，应有尽有。