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2. Mouthpiece (woodwind) - Wikipedia

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   Soprano saxophone mouthpiece. The mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument is that part of the instrument which is placed partly in the player's mouth. Single-reed instruments, capped double-reed instruments, and fipple flutes have mouthpieces while exposed double-reed instruments (apart from those using pirouettes) and open flutes do not.

3. Wind instrument - Wikipedia

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   Erke, wind instrument of Argentina. 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 ...

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. Flageolet - Wikipedia

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   The mouthpiece was a flat bit of ivory or bone. The chamber inside the windcap was intended to collect moisture and prevent it from entering the duct, employing differing devices for that purpose. The stream of air passing through the duct crosses the window and is split by the labium (also lip or edge) giving rise to a musical sound.

6. Embouchure - Wikipedia

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   It uses a slight rolling in of both lips and touching evenly all the way across. It also uses mouthpiece placement of about 40–50% top lip and 50–60% lower lip. The teeth will be about 1 ⁄ 4 to 1 ⁄ 2 inch (6 to 13 mm) apart and the teeth are parallel or the jaw slightly forward. There is relative mouthpiece pressure to the given air column.

7. Western concert flute - Wikipedia

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   The bass flute is an octave lower than the concert flute, and the contrabass flute is an octave lower than the bass flute. Less commonly seen flutes include the treble flute in G, pitched one octave higher than the alto flute; soprano flute, between the treble and concert; and tenor flute or flûte d'amour in B ♭ , A or A ♭ [ citation ...

8. Bore (wind instruments) - Wikipedia

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   Modern brass instruments however generally make use of the full length of the instrument for every pitch, and are therefore significantly affected by the effects of the mouthpiece and bell. These modify the instrument's resonances to closely resemble that of a conical pipe, even if the bore is mostly cylindrical.

9. Stabule - Wikipedia

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   The name can apply to variety of wind instruments, but in general sense it is a pipe with 4-8 finger holes. These instruments are 1.5–2.5 cm in diameter and can be anywhere from 20 to 40 cm in length. Stabules have either fipple or reed. Reed stabules were usually made from wood or reed with mouthpiece also made