Author: Alphie
Date: 2008-12-13 19:08
hans, watch your blood pressure and don’t you worry. You can save your time, I don’t need any help from you.
Tromba is indeed the modern term for trumpet, but my explanation about the origin of the term “clarinette” is indisputable:
“The name is plainly a diminutive of “clarino”, the Italian for trumpet, and particularly for the higher register of this instrument, much used in the 17th and 18th centuries, and much in vogue when the clarinet was invented. To J. G. Walther, writing in his Musicaliches Lexicon of 1732, ‘it sounded from far off not unlike a trumpet’.”
G. Rendall: The Clarinet (page one, fourth line).
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