Clarinet: Brief Description — VSL

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“Classification
Aerophone, single-reed instrument, woodwind

Material
Tube: Ebonite or grenadilla or metal; keywork: nickel silver, brass, silver or gold

Mouthpiece
Beak-shaped mouthpiece made of ebonite or cocus wood with a single reed (width up to 12.5 mm, material: arundo donax)

Tube
Mainly cylindrical, barrel-shaped bulge below the mouthpiece (barrel)

Total length
Approx. 66 cm (clarinet in Bb), approx. 71 cm (clarinet in A)

Bore
Medium, inner diameter approx. 12.7 mm

Keys/tone holes
24 tone holes; German (Oehler clarinet) or French keywork (Boehm clarinet)

Bell
Funnel-shaped”

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