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Author: Axel
Date: 2013-05-09 19:48
Up to now I have always read, that Johann Christoph Denner invented the clarinet at the beginning of the eighteenth century. By chance today I found a feature of the Bavarian broadcasting. There is claimed - without giving a source - that Denner invented the clarinet on Saturday, January the 14 th, 1690 (14-1-1690). Here is the link (it is in German):
http://www.br.de/radio/bayern1/sendungen/am-morgen/neun-vor-neun-klarinette100.html
Can anyone confirm this date?
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Author: kdk
Date: 2013-05-09 20:11
It will be interesting to see if anyone with a solid background can contribute to this. Denner (the father, who is credited with the invention of the clarinet) died in 1707 and was active over about 40 years as an instrument maker. There was no doubt a period of experimentation as he tinkered with the addition of a register vent to produce the clarion notes from the same tube as those of the earlier chalumeau, so it may hard be to pinpoint when he completed an instrument that he first specifically called a clarinet, if in fact he was the one who named it. In any case it doesn't seem important whether the actual date of completion of the first "clarinet" was in 1690 or "at the beginning of the current century," as Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr apparently wrote in 1730.
Karl
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2013-05-10 13:56
A bizarre clip, with a really bad electronic clarinet sound that sometimes switches to English horn.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Axel
Date: 2013-05-11 19:20
I contacted Hartmut Grawe, the author of the feature, by E-mail and asked him, to give me his source. He answered me, that this broadcasting-series doesn't have scientific demand. Therefore he doesn't preserve his sources for more than 800 articles, he wrote up to now. He investigates thoroughly and uses normally two different sources. In that case, he has cautiously declared, it could be, that the clarinet was invented Saturday, January the 14 th, 1690. He regrets, if that should be a clear mistake.
According to this explanation, I don't think, that the history of clarinet must be written new.
Axel
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