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Flutes are aerophones. An aerophone (/ ˈ ɛər oʊ f oʊ n /) is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, [1] without the use of strings or membranes (which are respectively chordophones and membranophones), and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound (or idiophones).
– F. Scott Fitzgerald This glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States is an alphabetical collection of colloquial expressions and their idiomatic meaning from the 1900s to the 1930s. This compilation highlights American slang from the 1920s and does not include foreign phrases. The glossary includes dated entries connected to bootlegging, criminal activities, drug usage ...
An aerophor (sometimes spelled aerophore, aerophon, or aerophone) is a device designed to provide an auxiliary breath supply to aid players of wind instruments in performing extended notes or passages. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It was invented in 1912 by Bernard Samuels, a Dutch flautist in the Court Theatre of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. [ 3 ][ 4 ...
Aerophones. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aerophones. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, aerophones are designated as '4'. 4: Instruments in which sound is produced through vibrating air (aerophone). This includes wind instruments and free-reed instruments.
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B ♭ (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands, although the descant and triple horn have become increasingly popular.
Free reed aerophone. A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound as air flows past a vibrating reed in a frame. Air pressure is typically generated by breath or with a bellows. In the Hornbostel–Sachs system, it is number: 412.13 (a member of interruptive free aerophones).
Squeezebox. Diatonic button accordion (German make, early 20th century). The term squeezebox (also squeeze box, squeeze-box) is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows -driven free reed aerophones such as the accordion and the concertina. The term is so applied because such ...
Diatonic button accordion. A melodeon or diatonic button accordion is a member of the free-reed aerophone family of musical instruments. It is a type of button accordion on which the melody -side keyboard contains one or more rows of buttons, with each row producing the notes of a single diatonic scale. The buttons on the bass -side keyboard ...