Music

Learning about
Woodwind and
Brass Instruments
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Woodwinds
These are instruments that is played by blowing wind into
the mouthpiece. It is usually made up of “wood” but
nowadays, it is already made by wood, plastic or metals.
It is a whistle type instruments where the sound is made
by blowing past a hole or slot.

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 Flute
It is a woodwind type instrument that can be played by
blowing air to its mouthpiece and held asymmetrical
position from the mouth to the right shoulder.

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Flute Recorder
It is like the original flute but the difference
is that the recorder is held vertically,
straight, and with both hands in front of the
upper body.

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 Clarinet
It is a single-reed instrument used orchestrally. It is
usually made of African blackwood and has a cylindirical
bore with intricate keys, and a flared, bell-shaped end.

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Oboe
It is a double-reed instrument that are
usually made of wood, but may also be
made of synthetic materials, such as plastic.
It is long, slender wooden tube, widening
out at the end and has metal keys operated
by human’s fingers to open and close holes
to create music

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 Bassoon
It is a double-reed instrument having a long U-shaped
conical tube connected to the mouthpiece by a thin metal
tube and a usual range of two octaves lower than that of
the oboe.

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Saxophone
It is a type of a single-reed instrument with a
conical body, usually made of brass. Its
sound produced when a reed on a
mouthpiece vibrates to produce a sound
wave inside the instrument’s body.

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 Brass
There are instruments with a long, coiled tube that is
played by the person who produce “buzzing” sound
through the mouthpiece at end of the metal tube. It is
played not by simply blowing into its reed but playing it
by vibrating your lips on its cup-shaped mouthpiece.

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 Trumpet
It is an instrumet consisting of a conical or cylindirical
usually metal tube, a cup-shaped mouthpiece, and a flared
bell with the highest register in the brass family.

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Trombone
It is the only instrument in the brass family
that used a slide instead of valves to change
pitch. It is played by holding it horizontally
and buzzing into the mouthpiece.

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 Tuba
It is the largest and lowest-pitched instrument in the brass
family. It is a long metal tube, curved into an oblong
shape, with a huge bell at the end.

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French Horn
It is a brass instrument with a circular shape,
wide bell, and rotary valves that is direct the
player’s air through different lengths of
tubing, creating more space for air and
lowering the pitch that comes out of the bell.

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 Music

Learning about
Philippine Native
Instruments
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 Maguindanao
Kulintang Ensemble
It is a musical ensemble in the Kulintang tradition of the
Maranao and the Maguindanao. It is consist of five
percussion instruments played by five musicians at the
same time.

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 Kulintang
It is an ancient instrumental form of music composed on
a row of small, horizontally laid gongs that function
melodically. It has 7 to 8 graduated gongs set on a
sounding rack, usually tuned to the pentatonic scale, and
is the instrument that creates the melody in the orchestra.

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Gandingan
It is set of four, large hanging gongs used
specifically by the Maguindanao as part of
their kulintang ensemble. It is also called
“talking gongs”

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 Agung
It is made of iron. The gong is part of kulintang ensemble.
It is 45 cm. in diameter and a depth of 29 cm.

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Dabakan
It is a single-headed Philippine drum,
primarily used as a supportive instrument in
the kulintang ensemble. Among the five
main kulintang instruments, it is the only
non- gong element of the Maguindanao
ensemble.

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 Babendil
It is a single, narrow- rimmed Philippine gong used primary as
the "timekeeper" of the Maguindanao kulintang ensemble.

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