Two clarinettes d'amour.

The clarinette d'amour was a musical instrument, a member of the clarinet family. A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. The clarinet is a Musical instrument in the Woodwind family The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word In comparison with the B♭ and A soprano clarinets, the clarinette d'amour had a similar shape and construction, but was larger, usually pitched in G. The soprano clarinets are a sub- family of the Clarinet family. A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which written notes are played at a pitch different from concert pitch, which a non-transpositing instrument such as a (Examples in A♭ and F are also known. ) However, it had proportionally smaller tone holes and bore, and a pear-shaped bell similar to that of the cor anglais; these features gave the instrument its distinctive timbre. The bore of a Wind instrument is its interior chamber that defines a flow path through which air travels and is set into vibration to produce sounds The cor anglais, or English horn, is a Double reed Woodwind Musical instrument in the Oboe family In Music, timbre (ˈtæm-bər' like timber, or, from Fr timbre tɛ̃bʁ is the quality of a Musical note or sound that distinguishes different

It first appeared around the middle of the 18th century and was popular in central Europe, but was regarded as obsolete by the mid 19th century. It has been conjectured that the basset horn, which shares the features of low pitch and small bore, was developed from the clarinette d'amour. The basset horn or tenor clarinet (sometimes written basset-horn) is a Musical instrument, a member of the Clarinet family

References

• F. Geoffrey Rendall. The Clarinet. 2nd ed. London: Ernest Benn, 1957.