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Klosй was so impressed by Boehm's invention that he named his own system for clarinets the Boehm system, although it is different from the one used on flutes.

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On basset horns and lower clarinets, the barrel is usually replaced by a curved metal neck.

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A clarinet must therefore have holes and keys for nineteen notes (an octave and a half, from bottom E to B?) in its lowest register to play a chromatic scale.

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The classical clarinet of Mozart's day would probably have had eight finger holes and five keys.

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Many works of chamber music have also been written for the clarinet.

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Next is the short barrel; this part of the instrument may be extended in order to fine-tune the clarinet.

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The major manufacturers of clarinet reeds include Gonzales, Rico, Vandoren, and Clarinet makers, among others.

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The bass clarinet has a characteristically deep, mellow sound.

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On bass and larger clarinets, some alto clarinets, and a few soprano clarinets, some or all of the finger holes are replaced by key-covered holes.

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The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family.

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Mozart (d. 1791) liked the sound of the clarinet (he considered its tone the closest in quality to the human voice) and wrote much music for it.

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By the time of Ludwig van Beethoven (c. 1800-1820), the clarinet was a standard fixture in the orchestra.

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The bottom of the clarinet’s written range is defined by the keywork on each particular instrument; there are standard keywork schemes with some variability.

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Clarinets other than the standard B? and A clarinets are sometimes known as harmony clarinets.

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Older crowds of preteens, teenagers and adults will sometimes organize Halloween-themed parties, which might be scheduled on the nearest available weekend.

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The most prominent of these schools were the German/Viennese traditions and the French school, centered around the clarinetists of the Conservatoire de Paris.

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The clarinet is widely used as a solo instrument.

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Buffet-Crampon's Greenline professional clarinets are made from a composite mixture of plastic resin and wood chips—such instruments are less affected by humidity, but are heavier than the equivalent wood instrument.

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Most alto and bass clarinets have an extra key to allow a low E?.

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The range of a clarinet can be divided into three distinctive registers.

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In 1812, Ivan Mueller, a Russian-born clarinetist and inventor, developed a new type of pad which was covered in leather or fish bladder.

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A clarinetist moves between registers through use of the register key, or speaker key.

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The Mueller clarinet and its derivatives were popular throughout the world.

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Jazz clarinetists often remain on softer reeds, as they are more suitable for bending pitch.

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Swing clarinetists such as Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, and Woody Herman led successful and popular big bands and smaller groups from the 1930s onward.

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Groups of clarinets playing together have become increasingly popular among clarinet enthusiasts in recent years.

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The "re-discovery" made Mendelism an important but controversial theory.

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Clarinets actually comprise a musical family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches.

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The clarinet was a central instrument in early jazz starting in the 1910s and remaining popular in the United States through the big band era into the 1940s.

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Defining the top end of a clarinet’s range is difficult, since many advanced players can produce notes well above the highest notes commonly found in method books.

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Early clarinets covered the tone holes with felt pads.

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Around the end of the seventeenth century, the chalumeau was modified by converting one of its keys into a register key and produced the first clarinet.

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Metal soprano clarinets were popular in the early twentieth century, until plastic instruments supplanted them.

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The tone of the E? clarinet is quite a bit brighter than any other member of the widely-used clarinet family and is known for its distinctive ability to cut through even loud orchestral textures.

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The clarinet has a distinctive timbre, resulting from the shape of the cylindrical bore, whose characteristics vary between its three main registers: The chalumeau (low), clarion or clarino (middle), and altissimo (high).

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The highest notes on a clarinet can have a piercing quality and can be difficult to tune precisely.

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Experimental EEE? octocontra-alto and BBB? octocontrabass clarinets have also been built.

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The tone quality varies greatly with the musician, the music, the style of clarinet, the reed, and humidity.

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The clarinet is therefore said to overblow at the twelfth.

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The German (Oehler system) clarinet generally has a darker tone quality than the French (Boehm system).

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The final development in the modern design of the clarinet used in most of the world today, was introduced by Hyacinthe Klosй in 1839.

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During this period, a British clarinetist named Acker Bilk became popular, founding his own ensemble in 1956.

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The alto clarinet is similar in sound to the bass, and the basset-horn has a tone quality similar to the A clarinet.

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Beginning clarinetists are often encouraged to use softer reeds.

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The entire weight of the smaller clarinets is supported by the right thumb behind the lower joint on what is called the thumb-rest.

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Bands usually include several B? clarinets, divided into sections each consisting of 2-3 clarinetists playing the same part.

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A number of clarinet concertos have been written to showcase the instrument, with the concerti by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Aaron Copland and Carl Maria von Weber being particularly well known.

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The modern clarinetist has an eclectic palette of "acceptable" tone qualities to choose from, especially when working with an open-minded teacher.

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Back in the United States, the instrument has seen something of a resurgence since the 1980s, with Eddie Daniels, Don Byron, and others playing the clarinet in more contemporary contexts.

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A person who plays the clarinet is called a clarinetist, sometimes spelled "clarinettist."

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The reason that the most popular soprano clarinets are in B?, A, and E? has to do partly with the history of the instrument, and partly with acoustics and aesthetics.

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Clarinet reeds come in varying "strengths" generally described from "soft" to "hard."

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The unmodified word clarinet usually refers to the B? soprano clarinet, by far the most common clarinet.

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Alto, contra-alto, and contrabass clarinets are sometimes used as well, and very rarely a piccolo A? clarinet.

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Early clarinets did not play well in the lower register, so chalumeaux continued to be made to play the low notes and these notes became known as the chalumeau register.

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Clarinets have a very wide compass, which is showcased in chamber, orchestral, and wind band writing.

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Professional clarinets are usually made from African hardwood, often grenadilla, rarely (because of diminishing supplies) Honduran rosewood, and sometimes even cocobolo.

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Nearly all soprano and piccolo clarinets have keywork enabling them to play the E below middle C as their lowest written note.

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Over the course of the nineteenth century, many enhancements were made to Mueller's clarinet, such as the Albert system and the Baermann system, all keeping the same basic design.

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The "re-discovery" made Mendelism an important but controversial theory.

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Clarinets also feature prominently in much of the Klezmer music, which requires a very distinctive style of playing.

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The original Denner clarinets had two keys, but various makers added more to get extra notes.

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Metal construction is still used for some contra-alto and contrabass clarinets.

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Filmmaker Woody Allen is a notable jazz clarinet enthusiast, and performs New Orleans-style jazz regularly with his quartet in New York.

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The next major development in the history of clarinet was the invention of the modern pad.

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The clarinet developed from a Baroque instrument called the chalumeau.

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Nearly all soprano and piccolo clarinets have keywork enabling them to play the E below middle C as their lowest written note.

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