Word: clarionet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word jazz, it is stated, is a corruption of the word " razz." Years ago a curious New Orleans " coon orchestra " called itself Razz's Band. It was an aggregation of four pieces, a baritone horn, a cornet, a trombone and an instrument something like a clarionet in shape but made out of the wood of the chinaberry tree. This strange instrument can be used only while the sap is in the wood, and after a few weeks of wear it must be thrown away. It is best made by Southern Negroes. The four musicians of Razz's Band...
...contemplating. The instruments and players who form it are as follows: First violins, A. C. Bliss, F. X. Grady, and W. N. Tuttle; second violins, Malcolm, Dole, and M. K. Mazer; cellos, Kenneth Dole Newcomb Fuller, and R. T. Loring Jr.; bass, L. J. Abbott; piano, H. T. Pearson; clarionet, V. B. Goldthwait; flutes, G. U. Baylies and W. R. Baylies; drums, J. McK. Kimball; saxophone, Malcolm Morse; trombone, T. S. Ruggles; tuba, J. F. Partridge; cornet, H. F. Brown; French horn, W. M. Crane...