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a black tube that overblows a twelfth instead of an octave, just to be difficult
means A single-reed woodwind instrument, a long cylindrical tube with keys, played by blowing across a reed to produce a warm, agile sound across a wide range.
from From French 'clarinette,' a diminutive of 'clarine' (a kind of small bell or chime), itself rooted in Latin 'clarus,' meaning clear or bright. The instrument's name nods to the 'clarino,' a high trumpet register it was thought to imitate in its upper notes — so the clarinet is, etymologically, a 'little clear-toned thing.'
- register break
- the throat notes every beginner secretly dreads
- odd harmonics
- its cylindrical bore skips the even overtones
- twelve keys
- Mozart wrote his concerto for one barely invented
- reed killer
- players hoard cane like nervous squirrels
- klezmer wail
- it laughs and cries in the same glissando
milt hinton's clarinet — jazz bassist and clarinetist who played from 1930s-1990s, recorded over 500 albums
benny goodman clarinet — king of swing who dominated 1930s-40s big band era with clarinet as lead instrument