various pitches and was commonly called chalumeau. “The word chalumeau is of French origin

and is a generic name for any small reed-blown pipe.(Rice30)” The clarinet is a woodwind

instrument consisting of a cylindrical wood, metal, or ebonite pipe with a bell-shaped opening at

one end and a mouthpiece at the other end, to which a thin reed is attached. The clarinet has five

different sections, the mouthpiece, the barrel, the upper section, the lower section, and the bell.

The length of the entire instrument is 60 cm long. The mouthpiece section consists of a slotted

cylinder, to which a reed is attached by a metal clamp called a ligature. The mouthpiece plugs

into the next section which is a barrel. The barrel is simply a connecting cylinder to which the

mouthpiece and the upper section plugs into.

The upper section is a cylindrical pipe consisting of 4 holes and 9 keys placed in different

featured as a solo instrument. The clarinet has a beautiful liquid sound that becomes warm and

tions along the pipe. On the back of the pipe there is a hole and a key that is used by the

then vibrates, causing the flowing air to vibrate, thus producing sound. The air then exits the

lines below the staff, to a D two ledger lines above the staff (Brymer65)”. There are several types

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