Double clarinet

Double clarinet (Fr.: clarinette double; Ger.: Doppelklarinette), oldest known form of clarinet, portrayed on reliefs that date back to 2700 B.C. of the Old Kingdom of Egypt. Both Sachs and Schaeffner found that pairs of parallel pipes occurring in antiquity were clarinets, pairs of divergent pipes, shawms (i.e., single- and double-reed instrs. respectively), and this conclusion is now generally accepted. Double clarinets are played nowadays all over the Islamic East. They consist of 2 pieces…