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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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    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). The main distinction between these instruments and other ...

  4. Category:Woodwind instruments - Wikipedia

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    Afrikaans; العربية; Asturianu; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Bosanski; Català

  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. Diwas - Wikipedia

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    In Balangaw, the instrument is called dad-ayu. In Bontoc, it is known as diwdiw-as. In Tingguian, dwdew-as. In Kankanai, diwas. [4] In these variations, the number of pipes ranges from five to eight. The size, length, and radius of the instruments vary from one ethnic group to another, but exact measurements are not required.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Single-reed instrument - Wikipedia

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    The type of instruments that use a single reed are clarinets and saxophone. The timbre of a single and double reed instrument is related to the harmonic series caused by the shape of the corpus. [ clarification needed ] E.g. the clarinet is only including the odd harmonics due to air column modes canceling out the even harmonics. [ 2 ]

  9. 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 ...