- Check out the interview and first few notes on our Facebook page - A few years ago, our friend, paleontologist and cornet collector Niles Eldredge, planted the bug in my ear to make the ultimate Monette cornet. He suggested building my vision of what the next step in the evolution of the modern Bb cornet would be. This proposition made me think about what a cornet could be that it had never been before! I drew the rough layout up quickly on a piece of cardboard at 100% scal