P.J. Meiser

I was wondering about the cornets too. He obviously would know the instrumentation of his school's band better than we would, but if you don't actually have cornets it seems pointless to write for them. I understand that a lot traditional wind band writing has cornet parts, but it's a archaic practice. The only time I've seen a cornet be used on a cornet part, it was simply because that particular player used a cornet for everything. (It was a old instrument that was in his family for a while or something like that.)