clarinet is a reed instrument with a wide range.

clarinet, also known as clarinet or clarinet, is one of the most widely used instruments in the woodwind music family. The pipe body is usually made of African ebony, but it is also made of other wood, plastic or metal. It has a mouth and a circular connecting tube, the tube body is cylindrical and detachable, and the lower end is an open bell mouth.

A reed is fixed at the mouthpiece. When the player blows through the space between the reed and the mouthpiece, and with proper pressure from the lower lip, the tip of the reed will vibrate, so that the air column in the instrument tube will start to vibrate, thus giving off a soft tone. Clarinet has a very wide range, almost four octaves, which can cover most of the range of human voice. In any range, its volume can be controlled freely. Compared with oboe, clarinet can handle large-scale melody changes better.

Introduction to the characteristics of clarinet:

1. The high-pitched area is bright and clear; The midrange is full of expression, pure timbre, clear and beautiful; The bass area is deep, rich and full, and it is the most widely used instrument in woodwind family.

2. With a vast range of nearly four octaves, it is the champion of the wind music family.

3. The bass is deep, the midrange is rich, and the treble is bright, which is suitable for expressing all kinds of musical characters, and it is very expressive in both band performance and solo performance.

4. The performance is very flexible, and it is excellent in playing melody, scale, arpeggio, pronunciation and so on.

5. The clarinet family has about ten kinds of pipes with different pitches and tonality, which is convenient to switch.

6. The timbre of clarinet is one of the most expressive woodwinds, and it is known as "orator".

above content reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Clarinet