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Definition of Clarionets
1. clarionet [n] - See also: clarionet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clarionets
Literary usage of Clarionets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"... and two Surna, in appearance not unlike clarionets, but sending forth notes
such as might be expected from two discordant bag-pipes without a drone. ..."
2. A Practical Gudie for the Manufacture of Metallic Alloys by André Franccois Victor Guettier, A. A. Fesquet (1872)
"Alloy for Keys of Flutes, clarionets, &c. Lead , ... 20 Antimony ........ 40 60
This alloy is hard, and its polish is not easily tarnished. Hard Tin. ..."
3. The Wind-band and Its Instruments: Their History, Construction, Acoustics by Arthur A. Clappé (1911)
"The concert band might be made equally homogeneous were clarionets employed,
complete in their class or family, in proportion and manner, comparable with ..."
4. The Story of Opera by Ernest Markham Lee (1909)
"Mozart's Figaro (1786)— 2 Flutes 2 Bassoons Tympani 2 clarionets 2 Trumpets 2
Oboes 2 Horns Strings This is the ordinary orchestra of the "classical period" ..."
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