Chalumeau in F - Soprano - Historical Reproduction Chalumeaux of Stuehnwal A-415

Description

Brand New
Chalumeau in F (Fa)
Soprano
This Chalumeau is the reproduction of an original by Stuehnwal from 1730 (Bayerische National Museum in Munich), cited in many older books as "the first clarinet", before we became more conscious of the chalumeau as a distinct instrument.
It only plays in the fundamental harmonic range, which is the lower register of the clarinet; this is why players refer to the lower register of the clarinet as the “chalumeau register”.
As it only plays in the fundamental range, it has a strangely low sound, limited range of notes with quite a different sound range. For that reason, early composers like Vivaldi, Telemann, Graupner, Molter and Bononcini have written music for it.
This model is pitched in F (the lowest note, though according to clarinet terminology, which goes by the second register, it would be C), at 415hz, with a slight change in the original design of the mouthpiece which is hand crafted in wood.
Indian Cocobolo wood (friendly wood to extreme weather conditions) is used with 2 brass keys. The Chalumeau doesn’t play in the upper “Clarion” register, so the speaker/register key is only to play throat notes to play “A” and “Bb”, by holding them together, you get B natural.
(Information: After Chalumeau, in 1690, a German Johann Christopher Denner converted one of the existing keys to make it the “speaker / register” key, which allowed players to produce notes a 12th higher in pitch than normal. This increased the instrument’s range hugely. The clarinet produced a loud, shrill sound, which resulted in the name being derived from the Italian word “clarion” which means “straight trumpet” hence the upper register is known as the “Clarion” register.) You can buy that clarinet in D as well.
Also Available: Clarinets in A (La) key, B flat (Sib) key, Eb (Mib) key, C (Do) Key
and G (Sol) key are available in
1) Boehm (French) System
2) Albert (Simple) system
3) Period styles.
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