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  2. Giuseppe Donati - Wikipedia

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    Giuseppe Donati (2 December 1836 – 14 February 1925) was an Italian musical instrument maker who invented the ocarina, a ceramic wind instrument based on the principle of a Helmholtz resonator. [1] Donati was born in Budrio. [2]

  3. Ocarina - Wikipedia

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    The ocarina went on to become popular in European communities as a toy instrument. [1] Ocarina, c. 1900, Museu de la Música de Barcelona. One of the oldest ocarinas found in Europe is from Runik, Kosovo. The Runik ocarina is a Neolithic flute-like wind instrument, and is the earliest prehistoric musical instrument ever recorded in Kosovo. [4]

  4. Gemshorn - Wikipedia

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    The gemshorn is an instrument of the ocarina family that was historically made from the horn of a chamois, goat, or other suitable animal. [1] The gemshorn receives its name from the German language, in which Gemshorn means a "chamois horn". [2]

  5. Polyphony and monophony in instruments - Wikipedia

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    Explicitly polyphonic wind instruments are relatively rare, but do exist. The standard harmonica can easily produce several notes at once. Multichambered ocarinas are manufactured in a number of varieties, including double, triple, and quadruple ocarinas, which use multiple chambers to extend the ocarina's otherwise limited range, but also ...

  6. Helmholtz resonance - Wikipedia

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    Helmholtz resonance, also known as wind throb, refers to the phenomenon of air resonance in a cavity, an effect named after the German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz. [1] This type of resonance occurs when air is forced in and out of a cavity (the resonance chamber ), causing the air inside to vibrate at a specific natural frequency .

  7. Aerophone - Wikipedia

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    Flutes are aerophones. An aerophone (/ ˈ ɛər oʊ f oʊ n /) is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, [1] without the use of strings or membranes (which are respectively chordophones and membranophones), and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound (or idiophones).

  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. Musical instrument classification - Wikipedia

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    The criteria for classifying musical instruments vary depending on the point of view, time, and place. The many various approaches examine aspects such as the physical properties of the instrument (shape, construction, material composition, physical state, etc.), the manner in which the instrument is played (plucked, bowed, etc.), the means by which the instrument produces sound, the quality ...