Developement_Of_The_Clarinet

Developement Of The Clarinet Development of the Clarinet The clarinet is an instrument that most people are familiar with because of the instruments popularity in school bands and orchestras. What is less known by most is the history behind the instrument. To explore the history behind the clarinet we begin in Egypt. Dating back to 2700 B.C. the Egyptians had an instrument known as the zummara (Pino 193). It was an instrument that used a single beating reed and operated on the same principle as the modern day clarinet. The zummara had two parallel pipes, as oppose to the single pipe in the clarinet of today. This difference between the two would have caused the zummara to sound dissonant. At about this same time in history India had an instrument known as the pungi or magudi. This instrument was similiar to the zummara because it also had a double pipe. But the pungi differed from the zummara by having its reed enclosed within a wooden chamber. When played the pungi or magudi would have played melodically. In the middle ages in Scotland there was an instrument called the stock-and-horn it closely resembles the modern day clarinet with its single reed, single pipe, bell horn, and clarinet, instrument, pino, wrote, new, music, zummara, two, single, reed, one, mozart, history, great, chalumeau, piece, known, between, beethoven, because, pungi, orchestras, modern, composers, century, york, years, wind, symphony, symphonies, solos, solo, rendall, register, pipe