Inventory | Ethnography | Clarino si b
- Common name
- Clarino si b
- Type
- Musical instrument
- Audio
- Material
- steel, wood
Description
A wooden wind instrument with a plain reed, used in bands to accompany music. The clarinet has a cylindrical tube with holes and keys, producing a distinctive sound due to its mechanics.
Use
- Areas of use
- liturgical and ritual activities
- Specific use
- band
- Craft
- band musician
Preserved specimen
Wooden airbrush instrument with cylindrical tube, flared pavilion and simple reed. The tube has holes, partly free and partly served by keys.
Equipped with a wide pavilion and long reed where the low E hole is located, controlled by a key with a long lever. Although an open pipe, the clarinet behaves acoustically as a closed pipe, in which the fundamental sound has a wavelength equal to four times the length of the air column.
Cataloging
- SIRBeC
- 7s020-00372
