Clarinet: Albanian music instrument

The clarinet is a kind of woodwind musical instrument that has a single-reed mouth piece; it has a cylindrically formed tube with cynical shape bore flaring bell. The person who plays this musical instrument is known as clarinetist or clarinetist. The word clarinet is believed to have entered the English language through the French language for the musical instrument which is clarinette or from the Provencal clarin, “oboe”, it is a smaller word for clarino the Italian trumpet, and the Italian clarinetto is the source of the name in many other languages. According to his write up 1732, Johann Gottfried Walter opined that the reason for this name was that “it sounded from far off not unlike a trumpet”. This might stipulate its strongly expressed quality in the upper register even when it is feeble and buzzing in the low register. The English name clarinet was found as far back as 1733 and the now-archaic clarionet showed up from 1784 until the early years of the 20^th century.

            

There are different types, pitches and sizes of the clarinets, comprising a large family of instruments. The family is regarded as the largest woodwind family with more than a dozen types that range from the BBB♭ octo-contrabass to the A♭ piccolo clarinets.

            

Johann Christopher Denner who invented this musical instrument in Germany around the turn of the 18^th century did this by adding a register key to the earlier chalumeau. As time went on, additional key work and airtight pads were added to increase the value of the tone and its playability. And today the clarinet is used in the production of jazz and classical music ensembles in chamber group and as a music performance instrument.

            

The bore is primarily responsible for the clarinet’s distinctive tone quality, this varies between its three major registers which includes; clarion, altissimo and chalumeau. The timbre can differ greatly with the music, the instrument, the musician, the mouth piece and even the reed. The development of this musical instrument was prompted by the difference in the instruments and geographical isolation of players in different countries and regions and from the late 18^th century it was discovered that different schools were playing clarinets of which the latest was centered on the clarinetists of the conservatoire de Paris in France. The great increase of recorded music has succeeded in making many examples of different styles of clarinet playing available and now there are many tone qualities to choose from.

            

The A and B clarinets have almost the same bore and use the same mouthpiece. The players that use the A and B musical instrument has been discovered to be using the same mouthpiece and this two instruments have the same timbre although the quality of A is slightly warmer than that of B. the alto clarinet is similar in tone to the bass clarinet while the bass clarinet has a pronounced deep and mellow sound. The basset horn has a closely related tone to the A clarinet while the tone of the E clarinet is far more illuminating than that of the lower clarinets and can be heard even through orchestral texture.

            

Clarinets is known to possess the largest pitch of woodwinds, the complex and difficult key arrangement that makes this range possible can make playability embarrassing. The body is believed to be manufactured from specific type of materials that may include wood, plastic, hard rubber, metal, resin, and ivory. The mostly used clarinets by the professional musicians are said to be produced from African hard wood, mpingo or grenadill and some from cocobolo. The plastic resin is used to produce the inexpensive instruments, the metal soprano was revealed to be popular in the 20^th century until the plastic instrument replaced them. Ivory was used in the 18^th century to produce few clarinets but it was discovered that it tends to crack and does not keep the shape of the instrument well. The mouthpiece are generally made from hard rubber, some inexpensive one are being produced out of plastic. Metals can also be used to produce some mouthpiece of the instruments.

                        

This musical instrument is made up of a single reed that is produced from the cane of Arundo donax, a special type of grass. Reeds of the instrument can also be manufactured from synthetic materials. When the player blows air into the opening that can be found between the reed and the mouthpiece facing, the reed vibrates and produced the sound of the musical instrument.