Clarinet - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: clarinetBasset horn
An instrument blown with a reed and resembling a clarinet but of much greater compass embracing nearly four octaves The corno di bassetto...
Bassoon
A wind instrument of the double reed kind furnished with holes which are stopped by the fingers and by keys as in flutes It forms the natural bass to the oboe clarinet etc...
Clarinet
A wind instrument blown by a single reed of richer and fuller tone than the oboe which has a double reed It is the leading instrument in a military band...
clarinetist
a musician who plays the clarinet...
Clarionet
See Clarinet...
cocuswood
A West Indian wood obtained from the granadilla tree used for making flutes clarinets and other musical instruments...
Corno di bassetto
A tenor clarinet called also basset horn and sometimes confounded with the English horn which is a tenor oboe...
Hautboy
A wind instrument sounded through a reed and similar in shape to the clarinet but with a thinner tone Now more commonly called oboe See Illust of Oboe...
Oboe
One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra yet of great antiquity having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone somewhat like the clarinet in form but more slender and sounded by means of a double reed a hautboy...
Saxophone
A wind instrument of brass containing a reed and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet...
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