The double clarinet (or zummara) is a Middle Eastern musical instrument consisting of two parallel cane or bamboo pipes, with five or six holes each. The reeds are either cut from the body of the instrument, or created by inserting smaller, slit tubes into the ends of the pipes. The player typically uses circular breathing. A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... A musical instrument is a device that has been constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... A reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to make music. ... Circular breathing is a special technique utilized primarily by players of the didgeridoo (and some other wind instruments) in order to continuously blow air out of the mouth. ...

The instrument is known as the mitbiq in Iraq and the mijwiz in Lebanon and its neighbours.

The Palestinian yarghul is similarly played, but instead of two melody pipes it has one melody pipe and a longer drone pipe (without holes). Palestine (Latin: Syria Palæstina; Hebrew: פלשתינה Palestina, ארץ־ישראל Eretz Yisrael; Arabic: فلسطين Filasṭīn) is the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the banks of the Jordan River, plus various adjoining lands to the east. ...

External links

• Lebanese example
• Egyptian example
• another Egyptian example — from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Other meanings

Double clarinet might refer to an organ stop, also known as the bass clarinet or bass clarionet. ("Double" is here used in the old-fashioned sense of a double-length and hence lower-pitched version of an instrument, e.g. "double bassoon" meaning contrabassoon.) [1] An organ stop can mean either: The control on an organ console that selects a particular sound. ... The contrabassoon or double bassoon is a larger version of the bassoon sounding an octave lower. ...

Concertos for two clarinets are known as double clarinet concertos. Origin Etymology Concerto (pl. ... A bass clarinet, which sounds an octave lower than the more common Bâ™­ soprano clarinet. ...