Clarinet

Clarinet Clarinets The Clarinet is a woodwind instrument. Its mouthpiece looks like a peaked edge. The mouthpiece is attached to a single reed. The body is usually made from basswood and is cylinder shaped with a flared bell. This is what the clarinet looks like now. The first form of the clarinet was available in Western Europe in the 17th century in a range of pitches and was generally called chalumeau. The word chalumeau is of a French origin and is a common name for any small reed-blown pipe. The German instrument creator J.C. Denner first developed the clarinet from the chalumeau around 1700. It is commonly implied that Denner invented the clarinet by improving the chalumeau. Denner gave the clarinet a separate mouthpiece, added keys to it, developed the bell, and offered for the first time the third and fifth harmonics. The clarinet was used very infrequently in the first half of the 18th century and parts with a restricted clarinet, instrument, invented, first, denner, chalumeau, system, mouthpiece, keys, new, muller, looks, development, developed, century, boehm, bell, been, 1800, years, world, work, word, woodwind, without, western, very, time, third, theobald, soloists, solo, small, single