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Woodwind Instruments

Woodwind instruments produce sound when a musician blows air across or into a mouthpiece. They include the flute, piccolo, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, bagpipes, and recorder. Woodwinds come in various sizes and use different techniques like single or double reeds to produce distinct tones ranging from high to low pitches. Some common woodwinds are the flute, clarinet, oboe, and saxophone, which are featured instruments in orchestras and bands.

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Woodwind Instruments

Woodwind instruments produce sound when a musician blows air across or into a mouthpiece. They include the flute, piccolo, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, bagpipes, and recorder. Woodwinds come in various sizes and use different techniques like single or double reeds to produce distinct tones ranging from high to low pitches. Some common woodwinds are the flute, clarinet, oboe, and saxophone, which are featured instruments in orchestras and bands.

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Woodwind instruments

 Woodwinds are a type of musical instrument that make their sound when a musician
blows air into or across the mouthpiece. They get their name from the fact that most
of them were once made of wood. Today many are made of other materials such as
metal or plastic
 There are a lot of types of woodwinds including the flute, piccolo, oboe, clarinet,
saxophone, bassoon, bagpipes, and recorder. They all look somewhat similar in that
they are all long tubes of various sizes with metal keys that cover the holes when
played to make different notes. The bigger the woodwind instrument the lower the
pitch sound they make.

 Flute - There are a wide variety of flute types. The kinds of flutes you mostly see in
western music are called side-blown flutes where the player produces sound by
blowing across an edge on the side of the flute. These are popular instruments for the
orchestra and are often used in jazz as well.
 Flute Piccolo - The piccolo is a small, or half-size, flute. It's played the same way a
flute is but makes higher pitched sounds (one octave higher).
 Recorder - Recorders are end-blown flutes and are also called whistles. Plastic
recorders can be inexpensive and are easy to play, so they are popular with young kids
and students in schools.
 Clarinet - The clarinet is a popular single reed instrument. It's used in classical, jazz,
and band music. There is a wide variety of clarinets making the clarinet family the
largest of the woodwinds.
 Oboe - The oboe is the highest pitch member of the double-reed family of woodwind
instruments. The oboe makes a clear, unique, and strong sound.
 Bassoon - The bassoon is like the oboe and is the lowest pitch member of the double-
reed family. It is considered a bass instrument.
 Saxophone - The saxophone is considered part of the woodwind family but is sort of a
combination of a brass instrument and the clarinet. It's very popular in jazz music.
Saxophone Bagpipes - Bagpipes are reed instruments where the air is forced from a
bag of air that the musician blows into to keep full. They are played throughout the
world but are most famous in Scotland and Ireland.
 Fun Facts about Woodwinds Not all woodwinds are made out of wood! Some are
actually made from plastic or from different types of metal. Up until 1770 the Oboe
was called the hoboy. Clarinet player Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in 1846.
The lowest notes in the symphony are played by the large contrabassoon. The flute is
the oldest instrument in the world to play notes.

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