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  2. Wind instrument - Wikipedia

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    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 manual modifications of the effective ...

  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. Slide whistle - Wikipedia

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    Slide whistle Diagram of a slide whistle. Sections: 1: mouthpiece, 2: fipple, 3: resonant cavity, 4: slide, 5: pull rod, 6: pipe. A slide whistle (variously known as a swanee or swannee whistle, lotus flute, [1] piston flute, or jazz flute) is a wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it.

  5. Cornett - Wikipedia

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    The instrument tapers in thickness, until at the top it is about 1.3 centimetres (0.51 in) wide. [13] The instruments were mainly treble cornetts, [26] tuned to the same range as the curved treble cornett, G 3 to A 5. [27] The others found in museums are soprano cornetts, also tuned like curved instruments to E 4 to E 6. [27] [26]

  6. Nadaswaram - Wikipedia

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    It is a wind instrument partially similar to the North Indian shehnai, but much longer, with a hardwood body, and a large flaring bell made of wood or metal. In South Indian culture, the nadasvaram is considered to be very auspicious, and it is a key musical instrument played in almost all Hindu weddings and temples of the South Indian ...

  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. Wind instruments could cause lung disease - AOL

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    A mysterious death has led doctors to issue a strong warning for anyone who plays a wind instrument. When a 61-year-old man died in 2014 from a mysterious illness, doctors at the University ...

  9. Flageolet - Wikipedia

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    The windcap is not essential to the sound production and the instrument can be played by blowing directly into the duct as in the initial recorder-type design. The flageolet was eventually entirely replaced by the tin whistle and is rarely played today. [4] However, it is a very easy instrument to play and the tone is soft and gentle

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