Clarinets - The Musical Instrument of the Future

The word clarinet came to refer to an entire family of instruments, ranging from high to low registers and greatly differing in both tone and size. There are nine other clarionets between those two extremes, but the most common and the one we're most familiar with, is the b flat clarinet. Another popular type is the a clarinet, which is only half a tone lower than the b flat. If you've ever heard peter and the wolf by sergey procofie, this is the instrument that voices the cat. Aside from classical european compositions, clarionets also featured prominently in the early days of jaz The instrument became a fixture in new orleans