Klezmer
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Klezmer is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisat
Jewish musicians of Rohatyn (west Ukraine)
Portrait of Pedotser (A. M. Kholodenko), nineteenth-century klezmer virtuoso
Max Leibowitz orchestra from 1921
Elane Hoffman Watts, klezmer drummer, in 2007
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.
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…four of its junior members.) In these larger orchestras, on top of the core instrumentation of strings and woodwinds, ensembles often featured cornets, C clarinets, trombones, a contrabass, a large Turkish drum, and several extra violins. The inclusion of Jews in tsarist army bands during the 19th century may also…
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).