Wind Instruments
Wind instruments create tone by a vibrating column of air. It's classified into 2 groups; brasswinds and woodwinds. Some wind instruments:
Harmonica: The harmonica has metal reeds places in air channels, generally the reed vibrates when the musician blows air into the channels.
Shawm: Shawm, also refers to a family of free-reed instruments which includes the bombarde, oboe, and others.
Bagpipes: The musician must fill the bag with air by blowing into a pipe. Lung-power is very important in playing the bagpipes.
Clarinet: By blowing wind directly into the instruments' edge & changing the pitch by opening & closing the holes with fingers.
Cornet: Like the trumpet, the cornet has valves & is generally pitched in B flat. In order to play it the musician blows into the mouthpiece, presses the finger buttons too known with valves & moves the tuning slide.
Saxophone: The saxophonist or musician, places the mouthpiece in his mouth, with the reed gently resting on his bottom lip & his teeth on top of the mouthpiece, always the mouthpiece must be sealed with his mouth before he blows.
Dulcian: The player places her/his lips on the reed & blows, the fingerholes are opened & closed to create different notes.
Flutophone: Flutophones have an aperture at the bottom. Usually the thumb of the left hand is used to cover this aperture when playing.
Contrabassoon: Also called as double bassoon, this wind instrument is bigger than the bassoon & is pitched an octave lower. It's played similar to a bassoon, however by his construccion and size, the fingering slightly varies.
Flute: The flutist or musician, when blows air into the edge of the instrument, change the pitch of the sound by closing the holes using fingers.
Trombone: It's played by vibrating the lips against the mouthpiece & moving the u-shaped slide which functions with the valves. By moving the slide, the musician can play in several pitches.
Trumpet: The trumpeter, or musician, vibrates his/her lips over the mouthpiece while pressing the valves on top.
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