Chiarina – Wikipedia

The core (also called clarina , clarino , clear ) It is a very simple natural trumpet, in use since the Roman era, but, in particular, as it presents itself today, from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The instrument has a rather long body and has a typical acute, clear and clear sound from which it takes its name.

Probably the natural light (without pistons) originally made it possible to intone many more known than a modern tool could issue “empty”, but, with the improvement of brass construction techniques, it is used as a reference that of the croissant in Sib , with the possible addition of one or more pistons. In particular, the clarin to a piston has been designed specifically for the execution of the triumphal march of the Aida by Giuseppe Verdi and has, also from a scenographic point of view, the advantage of containing the only piston inside the hand.

Today, precisely to safeguard this original aspect of the Chiarina and to meet the requests of the historical groups of the Italian flag -wing federations (F.I.SB. and L.I.S.) there are multiple types of “claws” in all shades, coming to touch the octaves of the trombone or of the high trombino. In fact, the occasions in which they can be seen are mostly re -enacting and in vintage costumes. Among the most famous we remember in Emilia-Romagna the Palio of Ferrara, in Piedmont the Palio di Asti, in Tuscany the Palio di Siena, the historic football in Florence, the historical procession of Orvieto, the chivalrous carousel of Sulmona, the carousel of Saracino of Arezzo, the Palio della Balestra di Sansepolcro and the carousel of the Orsa di Pistoia, the Palio di Pescia, also a tournament of the Faenza bandierant Alfieri, the Quintana chivalric tournament in Ascoli Piceno, the Palio di Ferrara the cavida di Cava de ‘ Tirreni, The Palio dei Micci in Querceta, the wild boar hunt in Mondavio, the Palio dei Castelli di San Severino Marche, the Palio di San Ginesio, the Palio di Noale, as well as the contest of the bucket in Sant’Elpidio a Mare in the province of Stop, always in the Marche or the Chiarina used by the flag -wing groups in the Palio and Tournament of the Oria Rions, medieval re -enactment that recalls the marriage between Frederick II and Isabella di Brienne.

In Florence, the Gonfalone of the city is accompanied in all ceremonies by a drape of Mazzieri and the Clean who perform the anthem in Renaissance costume.

In Assisi, during the civil and religious ceremonies, the Clean accompany the Gonfalone of the Municipality, playing “the cover”, the ancient municipal anthem of the city, and during the calendimaggio party, they are alongside the “Maestro de Campo”.

In Sansepolcro, on the occasion of the Palio della Balestra – which is held annually every second Sunday of September in the main Piazza Torre di Berta – the music group of the Balestrieri di Sansepolcro company (team consisting of drums and chiarine) performs a particular arrangement of the triumphal march of the ‘Aida, precisely in homage to the recovery of the musical instrument made by Giuseppe Verdi for the first execution of the work in 1870.

Even in Mondavio, one of the Renaissance cities par excellence, you can feel the ring of the Clean (and Tamburini) accompanied by an excellent choreography of movements and pyrotechnic shows.