Woodwind instrument

Pair of shawms (rgya gling), Tibet, late 19th century. Double-reed woodwind instrument with hardwood body and copper and brass bell.

♪ Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent ♪ ~ Victor Hugo Three summer vacations and one Christmas break is what it took for me to understand that music is a deep and bottomless sea, devoid of any boundaries. Every single musical instrument, right from the African djembe to the Indonesian gamelan angklung, and the Arabic shababa to the Indian sitar, is a testament to the fact that music is a universal language having multiple dialects. The tongue…

Collection of technical drawings of woodwind instruments (43 are originals on drafting paper and 24 are photocopies), accompanied by an album of photographs depicting the drawn instruments.

How Do Woodwind Instruments Work?

The flabiol is a Catalonian woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes

"Oboe reeds can be very temperamental, the slightest knock or even just a little change in the weather can make the difference between sounding nice or sounding a bit like a duck!" Read more about our spotlighted instrument, the oboe, in an interview with lifelong player Heather Calow! #oboe #woodwind (Image: "Oboe" by benzahodnar. Public Domain via Pixabay)

This far-reaching and absorbing book is designed to help identify and value woodwind instruments made in Europe and the United States during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing upon the author's many years of research in the field, the book includes a brief history of European woodwind instruments made during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; biographies of important makers; a glossary of terms that will be a welcome help for the novice; a list of key systems; resources…

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Classification of the musical instrument. double reed musical instruments. aerophone.