The cornamuse looks like a long stick with holes in it. It sounds like they are quiet and soft. It is played by covering the holes and blowing into it. It was not used in a particular type of music.…
The item I chose to do was my clarinet as my object and the Cittern as my object from The Met. I have chosen these two objects, because they have a lot in common as they are both musical instruments. The cittern was made roughly in 1685 made by German man, Joachim Tielke. The material used to make this was cypress, ivory, ebony, parchment, and brass. The cittern is 24 ⅞ in by 9 5/16 in. Also, this was made in Hamburg, Germany, so it is a german instrument. This was used to play music during church services and ceremonies such as weddings and funerals. But a lot of aristocrats played this, and then become more popular between the sixteenth and seventeenth century. It is mainly a folk instrument, which why it was then created into what we call…
Benny Goodman really drew my attention after watching the film about him in Jazz class a few weeks ago. I was very surprised to see that his instrument of choice was the clarinet. I didn’t think the clarinet t was that influential in the musical world until I learned more about Benny.…
The instruments he learned to play all by himself were clarinet, violin, guitar, flute,and piano.…
Many new developments were introduced to the design of the flute in the 18th century. These developments were met with an increase in desire to learn how to play the flute, as flute methods books were sold to beginners for the first time in 1710 [2]. Extra joints were added early on in the century, often with differing lengths. By 1720, the body of the flute was divided into two different parts (called corps de recharge). This differentiation allowed musicians to change the pitch of the flute so that, given different orchestras, they could (almost) always play in tune. By…
The compound bow was invented in July 12, 1909 – June 28, 1979 by Holless Wilbur…
From then on gifted minded individuals searched for a mechanism to use for accurate timekeeping, which led us to the origins of the clock. By 1500, most villages across Europe consisted of a large clock tower, as well as watchman who would call out the time periodically through out the day. At the time larger perpetual clocks tended to be fairly inaccurate, but there was an interest among the mechanically inclined to come up with newer and smaller versions for accurate personal use. It was around this time that a locksmith from Nuremberg, Germany named Peter Henlein invented the first pocket watch. Unlike a large clock which was driven by weights, Henlein's small portable clocks were powered by a coiled mainspring used in conjunction with a ratchet system. The incredible thing is that the mechanism used in the very first watch is not all…
Early as the 3000 B.C. there was a cylindrical cane tube that looked similar to the clarinet used in Egypt. It was used mostly in the eastern world, there was a prototype that was made out of bone called the hompipe ir pibgorn, very similar to Egypt's cane tube. The first clarinet ever made was around the 1700's in Nuremberg, Germany by Johann Cristoph Denne. Of course it wasn't as prestigious as now, but it still had a big impact on music. The very first clarinet invented looked similar to a recorder, the sound of this instrument sounds close to a trumpet, which is in key of C, but the only difference is the runs and jumps they are able to do in pieces that would be more difficult for a trumpet player to do. It started with the thumb key in the back with two keys on each upper and lower joint until later they had three on each, and forwarding through the years more keys like the side keys and register keys were installed around 1750's to give the clarinet a bigger opportunity to go from natural to sharp or natural to flat.…
Daniel Bonade (b. 1896 in Geneva, Switzerland – d. 1976 in Cannes, France): While not necessarily considered “American,” Bonade taught countless notable clarinetists during his time stateside, and is considered the father of the American School. Teaching at Curtis, Cleveland, and Julliard, Bonade taught successful clarinetists such as Mcginnis, Gigliotti, Marcellus, Lurie, Weber, and Brody, to name a few. While his playing career was cut tragically short by a heart attack, his pedagogical contributions were enormous.…
Ask most people who created the modern electric bass guitar and they will tell you it was Leo Fender. However, there were at least five other prototypes resembling the now well-known design of the modern bass, each created well before Fender introduced the world to the Precision bass in 1951.…
Manjak tradition-bearer Francis Mendy playing his people's folk lute, the gourd-bodied 3-string bunchundo, in Banjul, Gambia, 2004.…
The most beautiful sounding violins in existence today were made in Italy in the early 1700s, a period called the golden age of violin making. These instruments, especially those made by Antonio Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesù, are the most desired instruments by both collectors and performers, selling for millions of dollars. Modern day violin-makers have not been able to successfully copy the techniques they used to produce the same quality sound of violins that was made during this period.…
The long thin column plays its lowest note when all of the keys, or tone holes, are closed; when the column is the longest. The column is shortened by opening up the tone holes successively from the open end (bell), while the cane reed controls air flow from the closed end. The resulting sound waves going up and down the instrument add up to give a standing wave/vibration pattern, or frequency by the flow of air through the instrument. Utilizing the keys, the player has a range of various patterns or notes possible. These notes produce a specific and clear pitch native to the oboe. These involved frequencies are also a part of its overall harmonic series and range from a warm reedy to a high bright…
An Italian couple, Simonio and Lyndiana Bernacotti, invented the pencil in its modern form around 1560. They hollowed out a stick of juniper wood and placed a graphite stick inside. Not long afterward, an improved technique was developed in which a graphite stick was inserted into two wooden halves that were then glued together. This same basic technique is still used more than 400 years later.…
Keyboards was invented ny Christopher Sholes who was born in Mooresbud and he was an Amrican mechanical engineer. He invented the first typewriter in 1866. He invented the typewriter together woth his business partners Samuel Soule and Carlos Glidden.…