Piccolo Clarinet           

       The Transverse Flute Single-Reed Instruments Area Unit Members Of The Clarinet Family, Smaller And Better pitched Than The A Lot Of Acquainted High Soprano Clarinets In E♭ And D. None Area Unit Common, However The Foremost Usually Used Transverse Flute Single-Reed Instrument Is That The A♭ Single-Reed Instrument, Sounding A Minor Seventh Above The B♭ Single-Reed Instrument. Shackleton Conjointly Lists Obsolete Instruments In C, B♭, And A♮. Some Writers Decision These High Clarinets Or Octave Clarinets. The Boundary Between The transverse Flute And Soprano Clarinets Isn't Well-Defined, And Therefore The Rare Instruments In G And F May Well Be Thought-About As Either. Shackleton In Conjunction With Several Early Twentieth-Century Composers Uses The Term "Piccolo Clarinet" To See The E♭ And D Clarinets Yet (Piccolo Just That Means "Small" In Italian). This Designation Is currently Less Common Today; With The E♭ And D Instruments Area Unit A Lot Of Some times Selected Soprano Clarinets.

        The A♭ Single-Reed Instrument Is Pitched A Minor Seventh On Top Of The B♭ Soprano Single-Reed Instrument. Its Lowest Note, E, Sounds As Concert Middle-C, Identical As Several Concert Flutes.

        Clarinets Pitched In A-Flat Appeared Of ten times In European Wind Bands, Significantly In Espana And Italian Republic, A Minimum Of Through The Center Of The Twentieth Century, And Area Unit Immersed Within The Stage-Band Elements For Many Operas By Guiseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi.

         Cecil Forsyth Associated The High Instruments With Oesterreich Speech Communication, "Clarinets In (High) F, And Even In (High) A♭ Square Measure Often Used Abroad. The Latter Instrument Is Frequently Used Within The austrian Military Bands." A Famed Example Of Intensive Use Of A High Single-Reed Instrument In An Exceedingly Viennese Little Ensemble Was The Schrammel Quartet, Consisting Of 2 Violins (The Brothers Johann And Josef Schrammel), A Guitar, And G Single-Reed Instrument, Contend By Georg Dänzer, Throughout The Eighties.

         The A♭ Single-Reed Instrument Isn't Uncommon In Single-Reed Instrument Choir Arrangements—For Instance, Those Of Lucien Calliet, Together With Mozart's Wedding Of Figaro Overture—Though The Instrument Is Usually facultative Or Cued In Different Voices. There Square Measure Elements For A♭ Single-Reed Instrument In Béla Bartók's Movement For Piano And Orchestra, Op. A Pair Of ("Mostly In Unison With The E♭ Or Piccolo") And In John Tavener's Celtic Requiem (1969). Many Chamber Works Of Hans-Joachim Hespos Use The A♭ Single-Reed Instrument, Together With The Wild Go That Conjointly Options Soprano Sarrusophone, Hautbois, And Tárogató. Hespos Conjointly Uses The A♭ Single-Reed Instrument Within The Musical Organization Work Interactions.

       At Least Four Makers Presently Turn Out A♭ Clarinets: Leblanc, L. A. Ripamonti, Orsi Wind Instruments And Schwenk And Seggelke. As Of 2003, The Leblanc A♭ Was Solely Being Created Underneath Special Order. Ripamonti Produces Each German And French System (Including Full Boehm) A♭ Clarinets. Schwenk And Seggelke Build German System Clarinets In A♭ And High G.