chalumeau
Sign in to saveThe chalumeau (; ; plural chalumeaux) is a single-reed woodwind instrument of the late baroque and early classical eras. The chalumeau is a folk instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day clarinet. It has a cylindrical bore with eight tone holes (seven in front and one in back for the thumb) and a broad mouthpiece with a single heteroglot reed (i.e. separate, not a continuous part of the instrument's body) made of cane. Similar to the clarinet, the chalumeau overblows a twelfth.
Key facts
- Instrument.name
- Chalumeau
- Instrument.image
- JAP 3 Klappen Chalumeau.jpg
- Instrument.image_capt
- A Modern School Chalumeau
- Instrument.background
- woodwind
- Instrument.classification
- aerophone
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs
- 422.211.2
- Instrument.hornbostel_sachs_desc
- single-reed aerophone with cylindrical bore and fingerholes
- Instrument.developed
- from earliest single-reed instruments, in which the sounding-reed and fingerholes were cut into the plant stem. In late 17th, early 18th century became a detached single-reed mounted on an instrument body of wood.
- Instrument.related
- heteroglot reed: clarinet idioglott reed: arghul, diplica, dili tuiduk, dozaleh, cifte, launeddas, mijwiz, pilili, Reclam de xeremies, sipsi, zammara, zummara
- Instrument.sound sample
- File:Clarinette chalumeau.ogg
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Music for the chalumeau
- Timbre and tone
- Historical and modern chalumeaux
- Similar instruments
- Notes
- References
- External links
The chalumeau (; ; plural chalumeaux) is a single-reed woodwind instrument of the late baroque and early classical eras. The chalumeau is a folk instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day clarinet. It has a cylindrical bore with eight tone holes (seven in front and one in back for the thumb) and a broad mouthpiece with a single heteroglot reed (i.e. separate, not a continuous part of the instrument's body) made of cane. Similar to the clarinet, the chalumeau overblows a twelfth.
alt=An old chalumeau|thumb|Chalumeau by Klenig (early 1700s), M141 Swedish Museum of Performing Arts|Scenkonstmuseet, Stockholm. NB: There is no reed on this instrument.