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Woodwinds are distinguished from other wind instruments by the manner in which the sound is produced. Unlike the trumpets or other instruments of the brass family, in which the airstream passes through the player’s vibrating lips directly into the air column, the flutes are sounded by directing a narrow stream of air against the edge of a hole in a cylindrical tube. With the reed pipes (e.g., clarinets and saxophones), a thin strip of flexible material, such as cane or metal, is placed against the opening of the mouthpiece, forcing the airstream to pass through the reed before it reaches the column of air that is to vibrate. In double-reed instruments (oboes and bassoons), two thicknesses of reeds are used. The woodwind section of a band or orchestra usually consists of three flutes, one piccolo, three oboes, one English horn, three clarinets, one bass clarinet, three bassoons, and one contrabassoon.
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wind instrument: Classification
…grouping of wind instruments into woodwinds and brasses, but this is an inaccurate classification that generally does not apply outside Western culture. The fact that some modern woodwinds, such as flutes and saxophones, are made of metal whereas several ancestors of present-day brasses, such as the cornett and the…
instrumentation
Woodwinds: three flutes, piccolo, three oboes, English horn (cor anglais), three clarinets, bass clarinet, three bassoons, contrabassoon (double bassoon).…
Visual representation of a reed's vibration.
musical sound: Aerophones
Woodwinds prior to the 20th century were made for the most part of wood. Today the flutes and clarinets are classified in this group only because of this heritage, while the saxophones, always built of metal, share only the reed mouthpiece and similar fingering technique…
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