Definition of Clarinet

Clarinet

A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band.

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Clarinet Quotations

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
Alvin Lee

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
Steve Lacy

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
Norman Wisdom

My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.
Goldie Hawn

Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
Bobby McFerrin

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
Lee Konitz

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.
Lee Konitz

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.
Luc Ferrari

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.
Jack Brymer

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.
Pete Fountain

I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.
Acker Bilk

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.
Tennessee Ernie Ford

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Clarinet Translations

clarinet in French is clarinette
clarinet in German is Klarinette
clarinet in Italian is clarinetto
clarinet in Spanish is clarinete

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