Double clarinet
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The double clarinet (or zummara) is a Middle Eastern musical instrument consisting of two parallel cane or bamboo pipes, with five or six holes each. The reeds are either cut from the body of the instrument, or created by inserting smaller, slit tubes into the ends of the pipes. The player typically uses circular breathing.
The instrument is known as the mitbiq in Iraq and the mijwiz in Lebanon and its neighbours. The Palestinian yarghul is similarly played, but instead of two melody pipes it has one melody pipe and a longer drone pipe (without holes).
[edit] External links
- Lebanese example
- Egyptian example
- another Egyptian example — from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
[edit] Other meanings
Double clarinet might refer to an organ stop, also known as the bass clarinet or bass clarionet. ("Double" is here used in the old-fashioned sense of a double-length and hence lower-pitched version of an instrument, e.g. "double bassoon" meaning contrabassoon.) [1]
Concertos for two clarinets are known as double clarinet concertos.nl:Zummara
