Chamber music
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Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art
Frederick the Great plays flute in his summer palace Sanssouci, with Franz Benda playing violin, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach accompanying on keyboard, and unidentified string players; painting by Adolph Menzel (1850–52)
Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates and Galen play a piece on viols in this fanciful woodcut from 1516.
Baroque musicians playing a trio sonata, 18th-century anonymous painting
Copy of a pianoforte from 1805
Clarinet
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The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.
Two-key clarinet with fingering chart, from Museum musicum theoreticalo practicum, 1732
Sketch of the basset clarinet used by Anton Stadler since 1789 and a replica
Tone holes - countersunk and straight
Early Clarinet with 4 keys (c. 1760).