Jacob Denner (1685-1735) was a woodwind instrument maker of Nuremberg. Events February 6 - James Stuart, Duke of York becomes King James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland. ... Events April 16 - The London premiere of Alcina by George Frideric Handel, his first the first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. ... A woodwind instrument is a musical instrument in which sound is produced by blowing through a mouthpiece against an edge or by a vibrating reed, and in which the pitch is varied by opening or closing holes in the body of the instrument. ... Hl. ...
He was the son of Johann Christoph Denner, improver of the chalumeau and inventor of the clarinet. Johann Christoph Denner (August 13, 1655âApril 20, 1707), was a famous woodwind instrument maker of the Baroque era, to whom the invention of the clarinet in 1690 is attributed. ... The chalumeau is a musical instrument, believed to have been invented in the late 17th century by Johann Christoph Denner, and the immediate ancestor of the clarinet. ... A bass clarinet, which sounds an octave lower than the more common Bâ soprano clarinet. ...