The brass section consists of horns, trumpets or cornets, trombones, euphoniums, and tubas. The company made brass instruments, especially trombones, cornets, and trumpets. The present product portfolio consists of trumpets, cornets, flugelhorns, trombones, and a baritone horn. It featured "haut", or loud instruments, including trumpets, fifes, cornets, drums, and later, violins. Matthews also makes modifications to the cornets, trumpets and horns. However, cornets and trumpets are not entirely interchangeable, as they differ in timbre. Trumpets, sometimes as many as three, replaced cornets. The flugelhorn is built in the same B pitch as many trumpets and cornets. White later designed other brass instrument models, including cornets and baritones. In 1947, Getzen started producing trumpets and cornets as well. Among famous cornets in that conflict were George Joyce, Robert Stetson, and Ninian Beall. Second Lieutenants in The Blues and Royals are known as Cornets. Cornets following the 1913 patent of E.A. Couturier can have a continuously conical bore. But recruitment of Cornets remained difficult in peacetime. Cornets first appeared as separate instrumental parts in 19th-century French compositions.