![]() ![]() From the top of the barrel to the bottom of the key joint the instrument’s bore is cylindrical only the bell section has a conical shape both inside and out. The sections are called, from top to bottom: barrel (into which the reed-bearing mouthpiece is inserted), key joint, and bell. The body of the pictured E-flat clarinet is made of African blackwood (other hardwoods and resin may also be used) and is constructed in three interlocking sections, connected with tenon-and-socket joints, plus a mouthpiece. The E-flat clarinet is played both by professionals and amateurs, males and females. Today, it is primarily heard in a relatively small number of orchestra, concert band, and clarinet ensemble pieces. ![]() It is therefore not an important recital instrument it has only a small solo repertoire that is seldom heard even at tertiary educational institutions where most clarinetists earn their performance degrees. There is not much of a solo repertoire for this instrument, although a few works in recent decades have been composed for it. ![]() In this latter context it can be considered a doubling instrument performed by clarinet players as an auxiliary instrument for restricted passages. In the early 19 th century the E-flat clarinet was initially used in military bands and eventually, in the course of the century, as an orchestral instrument. It is the highest-pitched member of the modern clarinet family and is pitched a fourth higher than the standard clarinet. The clarinet in E-flat is an end-blown single-reed aerophone that originated in Europe but is now distributed throughout the world wherever Western cosmopolitanism (and especially the symphony orchestra) has taken root. ![]()
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