Clarinet Connection
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Parts of the clarinet No. 1 of 5 – Mouthpiece, Reeds & Ligatures The clarinet is made up of five connecting parts, the mouthpiece, barrel, upper joint, lower joint, and bell. Each part is fitted and aligned to one another a cork-covered tenon. There are four cork-covered tenons that hold the five parts of the … Read more
There are as many clarinet bore tapers as there are barrel designers and makers… Every maker has what they feel is the best taper design…. This of course gives the player a lot of choices when trying barrels.. Basically there cannot be big differences in the tapers or the clarinet would not play great…. The … Read more
Clarinet Material Concepts by Rheuben Allen I hear so many clarinet players say the good clarinets are made from wood…. I hate to break it to them … but… there are more bad wood clarinets on the planet than there are good ones…. Over time wood bores change, hell, the bore changes every time you … Read more
List of the Clarinet Family Octave clarinets — Very rare. Pitched around an octave higher than the B♭ clarinet. A-Flat Piccolo Clarinet (key of A-Flat) E-Flat Sopranino Clarinet (key of E-Flat) D Clarinet (key of D) C Clarinet (key of C) B-Flat Clarinet (key of B-Flat) A Clarinet (key of A) G Clarinet (key of G) … Read more
G clarinet: Today the G clarinet is used mostly in contemporary “Turkish Music” and is often thought as and referred to as a “Turkish clarinet”. Being much longer than the B-Flat or A clarinets the sound is rich and dark. The Albert system keywork and a range to low E is mostly used…. The G … Read more
Muller system is the system Oehler based is clarinet system on…. Ivan Müller, sometimes spelled Iwan Mueller (1786 in Revel, Estonia – 1854 in Buckenberg), was a clarinetist, composer and inventor who at the beginning of the 19th century was responsible for a major step forward in the development of the clarinet, the air-tight pad. Biography Müller was … Read more
The Oehler system (also spelled Öhler) is a system for clarinet keys developed by Oskar Oehler. Based on the Muller System (Ivan Muller) clarinet, the system adds tone holes to correct intonation and acoustic deficiencies, notably of the alternately-fingered notes B♭ and F. The system has more keys than the Boehm system, up to 27 in the Voll-Oehler … Read more
A clarinet: is 1 half step in pitch below the B-Flat clarinet Standard orchestral instrument used alongside the B♭ soprano. Because the strings play in keys that makes the B-Flat clarinet work very hard and use a lot of cross fingerings…. Playing the A clarinet for EXAMPLE: When the B-Flat clarinet has 7 sharps (the key … Read more
The word clarinet may have entered the English language via the French clarinette (the feminine diminutive of Old French clarin or clarion), or from Provencal clarin, “oboe”. It is ultimately from the Latin root clarus (“clear”). It would seem, however, that its real roots are to be found among some of the various names for trumpets used around the Renaissance and Baroque eras. … Read more
