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2. List of woodwind instruments - Wikipedia

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   Alboka (Basque Country, Spain); Arghul (Egypt and other Arabic nations); Aulochrome; Chalumeau; Clarinet. Piccolo (or sopranino, or octave) clarinet; Sopranino clarinet (including E-flat clarinet)

3. Woodwind instrument - Wikipedia

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   There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and reed instruments (otherwise called reed pipes). The main distinction between these instruments and other wind instruments is the way in which they produce sound. [1] All woodwinds produce sound by splitting the air blown into them on a sharp edge, such as a reed or a fipple. Despite ...

4. Family of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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   A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification, such as the Hornbostel-Sachs system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families. Some commonly recognized families are: Strings family; Woodwind family ...

5. Woodwind section - Wikipedia

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   The woodwind section, which consists of woodwind instruments, is one of the main sections of an orchestra or concert band. Woodwind sections contain instruments given Hornbostel-Sachs classifications of 421 ( edge-blown aerophones , commonly known as flutes ) and 422 ( reed aerophones ), but exclude 423 ( brass instruments , which have their ...

6. Bore (wind instruments) - Wikipedia

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   Modern brass instruments however generally make use of the full length of the instrument for every pitch, and are therefore significantly affected by the effects of the mouthpiece and bell. These modify the instrument's resonances to closely resemble that of a conical pipe, even if the bore is mostly cylindrical.

7. Brass instrument - Wikipedia

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   Brass instruments are one of the major classical instrument families and are played across a range of musical ensembles. Orchestras include a varying number of brass instruments depending on music style and era, typically: two to three trumpets; two to four French horns; two tenor trombones; one bass trombone; one tuba

8. List of period instruments - Wikipedia

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   2.2 Woodwind. 2.3 Brasses. 2.4 Keyboards. 2.5 Percussion. 3 Classical (1750–1820) ... Historical Brass Instruments as described by Antique Sound Workshop, Ltd.

9. Horn (instrument) - Wikipedia

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   The more familiar form, with an upturned bell, was developed in Switzerland in the eighteenth century. The practice of making these instruments in different sizes, to be played together in part music, originated in 1826. [4] Similar wooden instruments, used by shepherds for signalling, are known in Romania by the name bucium. They are made in ...