Cornet

<p style="color:#dbdbdb ;padding:20px; border-left:5px solid #B58E4B">Music has always provided emotional enhancement to the accompaniment of verse. Musical instruments and their variations have time and again acted as weapons of subtle expression in times of turbulence. One such instrument is the Cornet. A Cornet is the modified version of the trumpet but with a mellow tone and pitch. It belongs to the brass family of musical instruments. As in all brass instruments, sound is produced in a Cornet by sympathetic vibrations of air in a tubular resonator. Brass instruments such as the Cornet are highly directional and most of the sound produced travels straight outwards from the bell. Though difficult to record such notes, they play a major role in performance situations such as in marching bands. Recently being replaced by the trumpets, Cornet plays a specific role and has been an essential part of concert bands.</p>
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Claves

<p style="color:#dbdbdb ;padding:20px; border-left:5px solid #CFA366">Claves are a pair of cylindrical hardwood sticks belonging to the hand percussion family of musical instruments. Traditional Claves are made of rosewood, ebony or granadilla whereas modern Claves are made of fibreglass or plastic. Claves can also be grouped under the concussion idiophones type. With Claves, one stick is held in the player’s fingertips like a bow or a cue while the other is held in the palm and is the resonator. One of the Clave stick is hollow and is carved in the middle, which amplifies the clicking sound. A part of the original Afro–Cuban music, Claves as a musical instrument became more prominent during the period when the use of drums was banned. Claves are the kind of musical instruments that maintain various fixed rhythms and are usually found as accompaniments in the Latin–American dance bands. Ancient musical instruments, the Claves were used in many cultures as part of rituals, in calling attention of as well as to create musical rhythm. Claves is the backbone of Latin, Cuban, African and Brazilian music. Let us learn more about this instrument.</p>
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Clarinet

<p style="color:#dbdbdb ;padding:20px; border-left:5px solid #7E6A47">In ancient times, shepherds always had the leisure, time and inclination to make music. As years passed by, some shepherds also learnt to carve musical instruments from reeds and wood. The result was a single–reed mouthpiece instrument, a forerunner to the modern day Clarinet. Belonging to the family of woodwind single–reed instruments, the Clarinet is also classified as a single–reed aero–phone type with keys. The word Clarinet comes from ‘clarion’ which means ‘a little trumpet’. It was developed from the ‘chalumeau’ instrument of the renaissance era. A most recent addition to the woodwind family, the Clarinet is the last to be used in symphony orchestra. Clarinets have the largest pitch of all the woodwind instruments. Also, the timbre of a Clarinet consists of three instruments namely the chalumeau, clarion and altissimo. Making sounds with a Clarinet is much easier than making music with other musical instruments. Portable, easy to learn and a modern invention, the Clarinet is the most important part of an orchestra as well as the instrumental music. Rich, mellow, gentle, melodic and throaty, it is the ability of the Clarinet to play smooth and expressive music. A person who plays the Clarinet is called a clarinettist. Let us learn more about this instrument.</p>
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