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Henri Selmer Paris is a French enterprise, manufacturer of musical instruments based at Mantes-la-Ville near Paris.Founded in 1885, it is known as a producer of professional-grade woodwind and brass instruments, especially saxophones, clarinets and trumpets.
The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches. The clarinet family is the largest woodwind family, ranging from the BB♭ contrabass to the E♭ soprano.
Emma Johnson MBE (born 20 May 1966) [1] is a British clarinettist, who was appointed MBE for services to music in 1996.. In 1984, she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, playing one of Crusell's clarinet concertos in the televised final, [2] and won the Bronze Award representing Britain in the subsequent European Young Musician Competition.
Weber's orchestral career began at age 25, with a 1938 audition for Arturo Toscanini, who personally hired Weber on the spot to play in the NBC Symphony.Weber played with the orchestra for two years as associate principal and e-flat clarinet, [1] but was replaced just before the orchestra's 1940 tour of South America for a more experienced player.
A short sample of the sound of the bass clarinet Four modern short bass clarinets, from left to right Leblanc L400, Signet Selmer 1430P, E. M. Winston, Leblanc 330S Two short bass clarinets, on the right side made from boxwood. The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family.
Above the E♭ sopranino clarinet and below the octave clarinets, this leaves three small clarinets, in F, G, and A♭. The F clarinet was used mainly in military bands from around 1780 until the mid-19th century; French composer Hector Berlioz noted in his 1843 landmark Treatise on Instrumentation that it had been all but replaced by the E ...
Charlotte started playing the violin at the age of five, got a guitar when she was seven and taught herself how to play Beatle tunes, and then got a saxophone for Christmas when she was 12. Charlotte went on to study Music at Kingston University, after which she progressed into a career as a session musician, bandleader and composer/arranger.
Traditionally a clarinet quintet is a chamber musical ensemble made up of one clarinet, plus the standard string quartet of two violins, one viola, and one cello.Now the term clarinet quintet can refer to five B ♭ clarinets; four B ♭ clarinets and a bass clarinet; three B ♭ clarinets and two bass clarinets; one E ♭ clarinet, two B ♭ clarinets, and two bass clarinets; or one E ...