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The first clarinet was created when someone added a register key to a baroque instrument called the "chalumeau", which was a recorder-like instrument but had a reed attached to the mouthpiece. Adding...
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The clarinet has a long history starting in Germany where it was created...
Music historians believe that the first clarinet was made in 1700 by Johann Christoph Denner, a German instrument maker living in Nierenberg, Germany. The clarinet was modeled on an early instrument...