Chalumeau
Woodwind instrument; predecessor of modern clarinet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the historical musical instrument. For the register on the clarinet that is named for this instrument, see Clarinet § Range.
The chalumeau (English: /ˈʃæləmoʊ/; French: [ʃa.ly.mo]; plural chalumeaux) is a single-reed woodwind instrument of the late baroque and early classical eras. The chalumeau is a folk instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day clarinet. It has a cylindrical bore with eight tone holes (seven in front and one in back for the thumb) and a broad mouthpiece with a single heteroglot reed (i.e. separate, not a continuous part of the instrument's body) made of cane.[2] Similar to the clarinet, the chalumeau overblows a twelfth.
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Classification | aerophone |
Hornbostel–Sachs classification | 422.211.2 (single-reed aerophone with cylindrical bore and fingerholes) |
Developed | from earliest single-reed instruments, in which the sounding-reed and fingerholes were cut into the plant stem. In late 17th, early 18th century became a detached single-reed mounted on an instrument body of wood.[1] |
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