The clarinet is a musical instrument of the woodwind family that consists of a single reed mouthpiece. In the orchestra it is placed in that same woodwind section, together with the flute, oboe and bassoon.
The body of the instrument is usually made of wood (traditionally ebony, blackwood or cocobolo). The beauty of its timbre makes it suitable for playing solo passages as well as being an instrument of enormous agility and sonority, especially for the execution of trills and cromatisms. But it is not only a fundamental piece of symphonic music: both jazz and the traditional klezmer genre make frequent use of the beautiful sound of the clarinet.
