Combination clarinet

Combination clarinet (Ger.: Kombinationsklarinette), clarinet that unites several pitches in the same body, made during the 19th and early 20th c. in an attempt to furnish the orchestral clarinetist with a single instr. (without *pièces de rechange). The first in a series of complicated models was that of Jacques-François Simiot of Lyon, ca. 1827. His was in B♭ with a separate upper joint in A and an extendable bell. In 1847 Frédéric Triébert of Paris patented his *clarinette multiphonique; in…