The clarinet is a family of woodwind instruments that have a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight cylindrical tube with an approximately cylindrical bore, and a flaring bell. A person who plays any type of clarinet is called a clarinetist or clarinettist.
The word clarinet may have entered the English language via the French clarinette, or from Provençal clarin, oboe. It is plainly a diminutive of clarino, the Italian for trumpet, and the Italian clarinetto is the source of the name in many other...
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