http://b985.fm Central Maine's Country Thu, 23 May 2013 17:46:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://b985.fm/the-clarinet-has-a-birthday/ http://b985.fm/the-clarinet-has-a-birthday/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:19:29 +0000 Randy McCoy http://b985.fm/?p=49596 The first true reed instrument was invented on January 14, 1690 by Johann Christoph Denner in Nuremburg, Germany. It was a new instrument in its time called the clarinet. It evolved from an earlier instrument called the chalumeau, but by adding two keys it increased the instruments range. Mozart was the first composer to use a clarinet in a symphony. 

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