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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)
Playing some wind instruments, in particular those involving high breath pressure resistance, produce increases in intraocular pressure, which has been linked to glaucoma as a potential health risk. One 2011 study focused on brass and woodwind instruments observed "temporary and sometimes dramatic elevations and fluctuations in IOP". [ 12 ]
Sopilka (сопілка ⓘ, Ukrainian: Cопiлка) is a name applied to a variety of woodwind instruments of the flute family used by Ukrainian folk instrumentalists. [1] Sopilka most commonly refers to a fife made of a variety of materials (but traditionally out of elderberry or viburnum wood) and has six to ten finger holes. [ 2 ]
The Wind Repertory Project (WRP) is an extensive database documenting and listing wind repertoire—music written for wind instruments. [W 1] Primarily intended for band directors, [1] the site's search is customizable, by composer, demographics, instrumentation, form, style and instrumental solo features. [2]
Pages in category "Wind-activated musical instruments" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A pipe is a tubular wind instrument in general, or various specific wind instruments. [1] The word is an onomatopoeia, and comes from the tone which can resemble that of a bird chirping [citation needed]. With just three holes, a pipe's range is obtained by overblowing to sound at least the second or the third harmonic partials.
A complementary view recently advanced by Nikolaj Tarasov is that the recorder, rather than totally disappearing, evolved in similar ways to other wind instruments through the addition of keys and other devices, and remained in use throughout the nineteenth century, with its direct descendant's popularity overlapping with the late nineteenth ...
The nadaswaram [note 1] is a double reed wind instrument from South India. [1] It is used as a traditional classical instrument in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Kerala [2] and in the northern and eastern parts of Sri Lanka.