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Clarinet | History, Types, Facts | Britannica The invention of the clarinet in the early 18th century is ascribed to Johann Christoph Denner, a renowned woodwind maker in Nürnberg Previously, single reeds were used only in organs and folk instruments
clarinet summary | Britannica Benny Goodman was an American jazz musician, bandleader, and renowned 20th-century clarinet virtuoso Dubbed the “King of Swing,” Goodman was also a complex personality whose relentless pursuit of perfection was reflected in his approach to music
Woodwind | Clarinet, Flute Saxophone | Britannica The woodwind section of a band or orchestra usually consists of three flutes, one piccolo, three oboes, one English horn, three clarinets, one bass clarinet, three bassoons, and one contrabassoon
clarinet - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help The instrument pitched in B flat is the most popular type of clarinet It is about 26 inches (66 centimeters) long and generally is made in five separate parts: mouthpiece, barrel, upper joint, lower joint, and a flared bell
Bass clarinet | musical instrument | Britannica Bass clarinets in B♭ were at first built experimentally but after 1810 were built in many designs The modern version, with twice-curved crook, was influenced by the 1838 design of the Belgian instrument-maker Adolphe Sax, to which the upturned bell was later added
Johann Christoph Denner | Baroque flute, Clarinet inventor, Saxophone . . . Johann Christoph Denner was a German maker of musical instruments and the inventor of the clarinet Denner’s father, Heinrich, made horns and animal calls; from him Christoph learned instrument building, at the same time becoming an excellent performer
Musical instrument - Classification, Types, Families | Britannica Musical instrument - Classification, Types, Families: Instruments have been classified in various ways, some of which overlap The Chinese divide them according to the material of which they are made—as, for example, stone, wood, silk, and metal
Chalumeau | woodwind, double-reed, Baroque | Britannica Chalumeau, single-reed wind instrument, forerunner of the clarinet Chalumeau referred to various folk reed pipes and bagpipes, especially reed pipes of cylindrical bore sounded by a single reed, which was either tied on or cut in the pipe wall
Musical instrument | History, Characteristics, Examples, Facts . . . Musical instrument, any device for producing musical sound The principal types of such instruments, classified by the method of producing sound, are percussion, stringed, keyboard, wind, and electronic Learn more about the characteristics and classification of musical instruments in this article
Tuba | Brass Instrument, History Uses | Britannica Tuba, deep-pitched brass wind instrument with valves and wide conical bore The word tuba originally was the name of a straight-built Roman trumpet and was the medieval Latin word for trumpet