B-flat clarinet
- noun
- /biː flæt klærɪnɛt/
:
clarinete en si bemol
- She proudly played her B-flat clarinet in the school band concert.
Examples
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In the orchestra, the B-flat clarinet often plays the melody during performances.
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The B-flat clarinet is a popular choice for beginners in music classes.
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He wonders how much you could get for a used Buffet B-flat clarinet in good condition.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
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3.1
A wind instrument with a straight tube and a mouthpiece with a thin vibrating reed
A clarinet often used in jazz bands
How Low
- Specialized
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4.6
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
B-flat + clarinet
The meaning 'a clarinet pitched in B-flat' is directly compositional from 'B-flat' (a musical pitch) + 'clarinet' (the instrument). This follows a straightforward pitch+instrument pattern found across languages, so a learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE; only the technical nature of 'B-flat' might be unfamiliar to some learners.
Etymology
B-flat clarinet is named for how it sounds: when this clarinet plays the written note 'C', the instrument actually sounds B-flat. That's why people call this model the B-flat clarinet and why it is the common clarinet in many bands and orchestras.