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The soprano clarinets are a sub-family
Family (musical instruments)

A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification, such as the Hornbostel-Sachs system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families....
 of the clarinet family
Clarinet family

The clarinet family is a family including the well-known soprano clarinet, the slightly less familiar E-flat clarinet, soprano clarinet, and bass clarinets, and other clarinets....
. They include the most common types of clarinet
Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
s, and indeed are often referred to as simply "clarinets".

Among the soprano clarinets are the B clarinet, the most common type, whose range extends from D below middle C
Middle C

C or Do is the first note of the fixed-Do solf?ge.In Western music, the expression "Middle C" refers to the musical note "C" located exactly between the two staff of the grand staff and near the top and bottom, respectively, of the bass voice and soprano voices....
 (written
Transposing instrument

A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which written notes are read at a pitch different from Pitch #Concert pitch, which a non-transposing instrument, such as a piano, would play....
 E) to about the C three octaves above middle C; the A and C clarinets, sounding respectively a semitone
Semitone

A semitone, also called a half step or a half tone,Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and others use "half tone".One source says that step is "chiefly US", and that half-tone is "chiefly N....
 lower and a whole tone
Major second

A major second , also called a whole step or a whole tone,One source says step is "chiefly US."The preferred usage has been argued since the 19th century:...
 higher than the B clarinet; and the low G clarinet, sounding yet a whole tone lower than the A, rare in western music but popular in the folk music of Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
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The soprano clarinets are a sub-family
Family (musical instruments)

A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification, such as the Hornbostel-Sachs system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families....
 of the clarinet family
Clarinet family

The clarinet family is a family including the well-known soprano clarinet, the slightly less familiar E-flat clarinet, soprano clarinet, and bass clarinets, and other clarinets....
. They include the most common types of clarinet
Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
s, and indeed are often referred to as simply "clarinets".

Among the soprano clarinets are the B clarinet, the most common type, whose range extends from D below middle C
Middle C

C or Do is the first note of the fixed-Do solf?ge.In Western music, the expression "Middle C" refers to the musical note "C" located exactly between the two staff of the grand staff and near the top and bottom, respectively, of the bass voice and soprano voices....
 (written
Transposing instrument

A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which written notes are read at a pitch different from Pitch #Concert pitch, which a non-transposing instrument, such as a piano, would play....
 E) to about the C three octaves above middle C; the A and C clarinets, sounding respectively a semitone
Semitone

A semitone, also called a half step or a half tone,Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and others use "half tone".One source says that step is "chiefly US", and that half-tone is "chiefly N....
 lower and a whole tone
Major second

A major second , also called a whole step or a whole tone,One source says step is "chiefly US."The preferred usage has been argued since the 19th century:...
 higher than the B clarinet; and the low G clarinet, sounding yet a whole tone lower than the A, rare in western music but popular in the folk music of Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
. While some writers reserve a separate category of sopranino clarinets for the E
E-flat clarinet

The E-flat clarinet is a member of the clarinet family. It is usually classed as a soprano clarinet, although some authors describe it as a "sopranino" or even "piccolo" clarinet....
 and D clarinets, these are more usually regarded as soprano clarinets as well.

Clarinets in C are common in music of the classical period
Classical period (music)

The dates of the Classical period in Western music are generally accepted as 1750 to 1825. However, the term classical music is used colloquially to describe a variety of Western musical styles from the 9th century to the present....
 and in some later music, particularly opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
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There have also been soprano clarinets in C, A, and B with curved barrels and bells marketed under the names Saxonette
Saxonette

A saxonette is a woodwind instrument musical instrument and a member of the clarinet family. A saxonette is a soprano clarinet in C, A, or B? that has both a curved barrel and an upturned bell, both usually made of metal....
, Claribel, and Clariphon.

Shackleton lists also obsolete "sopranino" clarinets in (high) G, F, and E, and soprano clarinets in B and A. The G "sopranino", only a half step lower than the A piccolo clarinet
Piccolo clarinet

The piccolo clarinets are members of the clarinet clarinet family, smaller and higher pitched than the more familiar high soprano clarinets in E-flat clarinet and D....
, was popular during the Biedermeier
Biedermeier

In Central Europe, Biedermeier refers to work in the fields of literature, music, the visual arts and interior design in the period between the years 1815 , the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the Revolutions of 1848 and contrasts with the Romanticism era which preceded it....
 period in Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
 for playing Schrammelmusik
Schrammelmusik

Schrammelmusik is a style of Vienna folk music originating in the late nineteenth century and still performed in present-day Austria. The style is named for the prolific folk composers Johann and Josef Schrammel....
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