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2. Wind instrument - Wikipedia

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   Erke, wind instrument of Argentina. A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator. The pitch of the vibration is determined by the length of the tube and by ...

3. Woodwind instrument - Wikipedia

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   Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute , clarinet , oboe , bassoon , and saxophone . There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and reed instruments (otherwise called reed pipes).

4. List of period instruments - Wikipedia

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   The clavichord is an example of a period instrument. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments".

5. List of classical music genres - Wikipedia

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   Wind quintet – Composition for five wind instruments. Sextet – Composition for six instruments or voices. Piano sextet – Composition for piano and five other instruments. String sextet – Composition for six string instruments. Septet – Composition for seven instruments or voices. Octet – Composition for eight instruments or voices.

6. List of woodwind instruments - Wikipedia

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   Balaban (instrument) (Azerbaijan) Bassanelli; Bassoon. Soprano bassoon; Tenoroon; Contrabassoon; Biforaers (Sicily) Bombardeers (France) Catalan shawm; Cromorne (French baroque, different from the crumhorn) Contra Forte; Duduk (Armenia) Dulcian; Dulzaina (Spain) Heckelphone. Piccolo heckelphone; Hichiriki (Japan) Kèn bầu (Vietnam) Mizmar ...

7. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)

8. Recorder (musical instrument) - Wikipedia

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   The recorder was one of the most important wind instruments of the Renaissance, and many instruments dating to the sixteenth century survive, including some matched consorts. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] This period also produced the first extant books describing the recorder, including the treatises of Virdung (1511), Agricola (1529), Ganassi (1535), Cardano ...

9. Harmonie - Wikipedia

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   Harmonie is a German word that, in the context of the history of music, designates an ensemble of wind instruments (usually about five to eight players) employed by an aristocratic patron, particularly during the Classical era of the 18th century. The Harmonie would be employed for outdoor or recreational music, or as a wind section of an ...