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  2. Clarinet - Wikipedia

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    The clarinet was a central instrument in jazz, beginning with early jazz players in the 1910s. It remained a signature instrument of the genre through much of the big band era into the 1940s. American players Alphonse Picou, Larry Shields, Jimmie Noone, Johnny Dodds, and Sidney Bechet were all prominent early jazz clarinet players. [87]

  3. Johann Christoph Denner - Wikipedia

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    On the basis of this passage, Denner has been credited by many with the improvement of the chalumeau and the invention of the clarinet. Despite the words "At the beginning of the current century" he is often said to have developed the clarinet in 1690; there is no evidence for this. [2] In fact, J. C. Denner may have built no clarinets at all.

  4. List of clarinetists - Wikipedia

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    Matt Lavelle (bass clarinet) (born 1970) Joe Maneri (1927–2009) Michael Marcus (born 1952) Joe Marsala (1907–1978) Stan McDonald (born 1935) Hal McKusick (1924–2012) Mezz Mezzrow (1899–1972) Jean-Christian Michel (born 1938) Marcus Miller (born 1959) Gabriele Mirabassi (born 1967) Gussie Mueller (1890–1965) David Murray (born 1955 ...

  5. Alto clarinet - Wikipedia

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    The invention of the alto clarinet has been attributed to Iwan Müller and to Heinrich Grenser, [2] and to both working together. [3] Müller was performing on an alto clarinet in F by 1809, one with sixteen keys at a time when soprano clarinets generally had no more than 10–12 keys; Müller's revolutionary thirteen-key soprano clarinet was developed soon after. [3]

  6. Clarinet family - Wikipedia

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    The clarinet family is a woodwind instrument family of various sizes and types of clarinets, including the common soprano clarinet in B♭ and A, bass clarinet, and sopranino E♭ clarinet. Clarinets that aren't the standard B♭ or A clarinets are sometimes known as harmony clarinets.

  7. History of YouTube - Wikipedia

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    As of February 2017, there were more than 400 hours of content uploaded to YouTube each minute, and one billion hours of content being watched on YouTube every day. As of October 2020 [update] , YouTube is the second-most popular website in the world, behind Google , according to Alexa Internet . [ 1 ]

  8. Contra-alto clarinet - Wikipedia

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    The contra-alto clarinet [2] is largely a development of the 2nd half of the 20th century, although there were some precursors in the 19th century: . In 1829, Johann Heinrich Gottlieb Streitwolf [], an instrument maker in Göttingen, introduced an instrument tuned in F in the shape and fingering of a basset horn, which could be called a contrabasset horn because it played an octave lower than it.

  9. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    2004: First podcast, invented by Adam Curry and Dave Winer, is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet and it usually features one or more recurring hosts engaged in a discussion about a particular topic or current event. [545] [546] [547] 2005: YouTube, the first popular video-streaming site, was founded