Woodwind instruments are a family of wind instruments that traditionally use wood and produce sound through the flow of air across an opening. They include flutes, which produce sound from air flowing across an edge, and reed instruments, which use a single reed to vibrate and produce sound. Some common woodwind instruments are the flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone. The saxophone is unique as the only woodwind made of brass but uses a single reed like other reed instruments.
Woodwind instruments are a family of wind instruments that traditionally use wood and produce sound through the flow of air across an opening. They include flutes, which produce sound from air flowing across an edge, and reed instruments, which use a single reed to vibrate and produce sound. Some common woodwind instruments are the flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone. The saxophone is unique as the only woodwind made of brass but uses a single reed like other reed instruments.
Woodwind instruments are a family of wind instruments that traditionally use wood and produce sound through the flow of air across an opening. They include flutes, which produce sound from air flowing across an edge, and reed instruments, which use a single reed to vibrate and produce sound. Some common woodwind instruments are the flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone. The saxophone is unique as the only woodwind made of brass but uses a single reed like other reed instruments.
INSTRUMENTS WITHIN THE MORE GENERAL CATEGORY OF WIND INSTRUMENTS. THE INSTRUMENTS IN THIS FAMILY ALL USED TO BE MADE OF WOOD, WHICH GIVES THEM THEIR NAME. THEY ARE ALL BASICALLY NARROW CYLINDERS OR PIPES, WITH HOLES, AN OPENING AT THE BOTTOM END AND A MOUTHPIECE AT THE TOP. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: Flutes (passing of air) and reed instruments (use of reed). Playing by using reed/s FLUTES A flute is a woodwind instrument shaped like a thin pipe. Flutes produce sound from the flow of air across an edge. The flute is the oldest woodwind instrument, dating to 900 B.C. or earlier. The first likely flute was called the "ch-ie" and emerged in China
During the 1100s and 1200s, the flute was
widely used in courtly music and saw use as a military signaling and marching tool. Swiss mercenaries helped popularize it in the 1300s. The piccolo is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwindfamily of musical instruments • highest-pitched woodwind instrument of orchestras and military bands. It is a small transverse (horizontally played) flute of conical or cylindrical bore, fitted with Boehm-system keywork and pitched an octavehigher than the ordinary concert flute. SINGLE REED INSTRUMENTS A reed is a tall plant like grass that grows in or near water. In music, it’s a small thin piece of cane, metal or plastic in some musical instruments such as the oboe or the clarinet that moves very quickly when air is blown over it. The CLARINET is a single-reed instrument shaped like a pipe. There are clarinets with different sizes and pitches;
the clarinet family has more than a dozen types,
but the word clarinet usually refers to the B♭soprano clarinet, by far the most commonly played clarinet. Invented around 1690, the clarinet is a single-reed woodwind instrument with a cylindrical tube. The clarinet evolved from an earlier instrument called the chalumeau, the first true single reed instrument. The man universally credited for actually inventing, or making, the clarinet was Johann Christoph Denner (1655-1707) with the help of his son, Jacob, of Nuremberg, Germany. J.C. Denner was well-known and well-respected for the high quality woodwind instruments he made. What made the clarinet a clarinet was Denner's great improvement to the old chalumeau SAXOPHONE it is the only woodwind instrument made of brass, but it has a single reed in the mouthpiece. Although it is found only occasionally in the symphony orchestra, it is considered a member of the woodwind family. Although most saxophones are made from brass, they are categorized as woodwind instruments, because sound is produced by an oscillating reed, rather than lips vibrating in a mouthpiece cup as with the brass instrument family. The saxophone is a relatively new instrument that was invented during the 1840s and patented in 1846 by Adolphe Sax, a Belgian musician and instrument maker
The sax is used in many genres of music
including classical, military and marching bands, jazz, and contemporary music, including rock and roll. After Adolphe's death, the saxophone proceeded to undergo changes, books for the saxophone were published and composers/musicians continued to include the sax in their performances. In 1914 the saxophone entered the world of jazz bands. In 1928 the Sax factory was sold to the Henri Selmer Company. To this day many manufacturers of musical instruments create their own line of saxophones and it continues to enjoy a prominent position in jazz music