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."
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
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.
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
Is this different from a clarinet? Larger/deeper tone perhaps?