What Are Clarinets Made Of?
History jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a04/lg/ag/what-clarinets-made-1.1-800X800.jpg’); }); Silver-plated Three Star metal clarinet. The clarinet was developed in 1698 by Nuremberg musician Johann Christopher Denner from an ancient woodwind. This woodwind, the chalumeau, was a cane or wooden tube with a single cane reed, eight tone holes and either one or two keys. In the earliest days of the true clarinet, the instrument body was most often composed of boxwood and sometimes pear and plum wood. Some early ivory clarinets have been found. Mouthpieces were sometimes made of ebony wood. The first clarinet key pads were made of leather strips or felt. In about 1806, Iwan Muller made pads from leather or pieces of gut or fish bladder with wool inserts. He also made mouthpiece ligatures and thumb rests from metal for the clarinet. In 1817, a French musical instrument maker, Halari, made a brass clarinet. O
