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A special loan exhibition of musical instruments, manuscripts, books, portraits, and other mementoes of music and musicians, formed to commemorate the tercentenary of the granting by King James I of a charter of incorporation to the Worshipful company of musicians in 1604 .., 1904
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1The clarionet, invented in 1690, by Denner, of Nuremberg, remains, however, the most important instrument of the wood-wind group, and possesses the distinctive feature that the octave and other even-numbered harmonics are absent or but very faint in its tone. The great interval of a twelfth that has therefore to be bridged over by holes covered with the fingers or key work has led to the application of much ingenious mechanism, not merely for convenience of fingering, as on the flute and the oboe, but to make at all possible the production of the chromatic scale through the interval of a twelfth by means of ten fingers, of which at least one is required for the support of the instrument.
3D. I. BLAIKLEY.
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