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Reed contrabass/Contrabass à anche; Rhaita (North Africa) Rothphone; Sarrusophone (but often played with single reed mouthpiece) Shawm (Schalmei) Sopilas (Croatia) Sornas (Persia) Suona (China) Surnayers (Iran) Taepyeongso (Korea) Tárogatós (Hungary; up to about the 18th century) Tromboon; Trompeta china (Cuba) Zurla (Macedonia) Zurna
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).
[1] [page needed] The earliest types of single-reed instruments used idioglottal reeds, where the vibrating reed is a tongue cut and shaped on the tube of cane. Much later, single-reed instruments started using heteroglottal reeds, where a reed is cut and separated from the tube of cane and attached to a mouthpiece of some sort.
A reed (or lamella) is a thin strip of material that vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument. Most woodwind instrument reeds are made from Arundo donax ("Giant cane") or synthetic material. Tuned reeds (as in harmonicas and accordions) are made of metal or synthetics. Musical instruments are classified according to the type and ...
Instrument Picture Classification H-S Number Elementary organology class Origin Common classification Relation Celesta-struck idiophone-metallophone-set of percussion plaques
Category: Woodwind instruments. ... Reed aerophones (3 C, 7 P) S. Sarrusophones (7 P) Saxophones (4 C, 35 P, 1 F) V. Vessel flutes (8 P) W. Wind instruments by tone ...
The shawm (/ ʃ ɔː m /) is a conical bore, double-reed woodwind instrument made in Europe from the 12th century to the present day. It achieved its peak of popularity during the medieval and Renaissance periods, after which it was gradually eclipsed by the oboe family of descendant instruments in classical music .
The lowest note that the reed contrabass may typically achieve is D1 (DD) - the lowest D on a standard grand piano. Although obscure, the instrument may still be procured on request from the Italian instrument manufacturer Orsi. The reed contrabass is sometimes confused with the contrabass sarrusophone, to which it bears some superficial ...