Definitions
Etymologies
- From clarion + -et. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The other is called Jaina, and is a rude kind of clarionet made from a reed.”
“The _Jaina_ appears to be of more modern origin; it is a rude kind of clarionet, made from a reed.”
“He delivered lectures upon geography and astronomy: those who could play instruments, such as clarionet, fife, and violin, were stationed on the deck, while the rest marched in ranks.”
“And halting as he was on the point of setting out: — “By the way, you will give me his gun!” and he added: “I leave you the musician, but I want the clarionet.””
“Only a blind musician, on the scaffolding of the orchestra, went on playing a shrill tune on his clarionet.”
“As the old gentleman inhabited the highest story of the palace, where he might have practised pistol – shooting without much chance of discovery by the other inmates, his younger niece had taken courage to propose the restoration to him of his clarionet, which Mr Dorrit had ordered to be confiscated, but which she had ventured to preserve.”
“All this time the uncle was dolefully blowing his clarionet in the corner, sometimes taking it an inch or so from his mouth for a moment while he stopped to gaze at them, with a vague impression that somebody had said something.”
“When they arrived there, they found the old man practising his clarionet in the dolefullest manner in a corner of the room.”
“Doubtful which might be the clarionet – stop, he was considering the point, when a shuttlecock flew out of the parlour window, and alighted on his hat.”
“‘What did you think of my brother, sir?’ he asked, when he by – and – by discovered what he was doing, left off, reached over to the chimney – piece, and took his clarionet case down.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clarionet’.
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Organ Stops
A list of pipe- and pedal-organ stops. These have variously and perhaps at times capriciously been named and labelled by organ builders in Latin, English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, a...
diapason, double open diapason, sub-bourdon, double dulciana, bourdon, contra gamba, pyramidon, open diapason, stopped diapason, dulcis, dulciana, viol-di-gamba and 244 more...
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Musical Instruments
Collect them all!
dulcimer, french horn, didgeridoo, zither, tympani, djembe, xylophone, vibraphone, singing bowl, bagpipes, banjo, guitar and 66 more...
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Literarie: Mussolini: My Part In His ...
Bits from the predictably odd and chaotic Spike Milligan book of this title. He writes in diary-style about his service in the British Army's World War II campaign in Italy.
"I admit the way...b4, matelot, asleep, landing, fags, spam, ash wednesday, derv, nebelwurfer, the shits, hole in the ground, cookhouse and 79 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for clarionet.
bilby "We were interrupted by a Despatch Rider from 2 AGRA HQ. A short dwarf, heavily wrapped up with knee-high motor-cycling boots that came up to his neck, a crash helmet that came down to his knees, and a khaki scarf wrapped around the lower half of his face. Jenkins saw the word URGENT on the envelope, hastily dropped his clarionet, stood up to read the message. It would have read exactly the same sitting down but standing up gave him height. What it didn't give him was a view of his clarionet rolling slowly into the fire ... We let it burn a few moments and when it was too late said, 'Oh, sir! Quick, your clarionet is on fire.' (Rather like those French translations, i.e. The Clarionet of my cousin has been struck by lightning.)
- Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall.' Apr 19, 2009
chained_bear Wow. Thanks for that, qroqqa!
OED has its first definition as "clarinet," with "A sound like that of the instrument," and "A player on the clarionet." The 2nd definition is also "clarinet."
And at clarinet, we have "1. A wooden single-red instrument..." (etc.) and "2. An organ-stop of a quality of tone like that of this instrument; = cremona."
So I guess it's a clarinet. Oct 10, 2008
qroqqa n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet—two clarionets.
—Ambrose Bierce Oct 10, 2008
chained_bear Is this different from a clarinet? Larger/deeper tone perhaps? Oct 10, 2008