When referring to the instrument, the serpent is a wind instrument that resembles a snake in its design. It can be hard to classify this particular instrument at first because it could be a brass instrument for its mouthpiece, but it could be a woodwind instrument because of the material it is made out of [...]
The flute is a member of the woodwind family and is played by blowing air across the mouth of the instrument instead of using a reed, which makes it rather distinct from most other woodwind instruments. It appears that the flute has been around for thousands of years and predates many of the instruments most [...]
The recorder is a type of flute that belongs to the woodwind musical instrument family, and is more specifically a fipple flute. The recorder is a long tube with a wide mouth piece that the musician blows directly into. It has seven holes for fingers, one hole on the back of the instrument for a [...]
A musical instrument or a music gear is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. In principle anything that, produces sound, and can somehow be controlled by a person playing it, can serve as a musical gear. The expression, however, is reserved generally for items that have a specific musical purpose. [...]
Every musical instrument in a symphonic orchestra will emit a distinct tone that will contribute to the sound of music that will be heard by an audience during a concert performance. The woodwind section of the symphonic orchestra is comprised of musical instruments such as the flute, oboe, the clarinet, and the bassoon. A symphonic [...]
Makers of the instruments of the band and orchestra search the world for their materials. The collecting of these materials furnishes enough romance to fill a volume. The mellow clarinet note in today’s concert reminds us of great labors and sacrifices of native peoples in the tropical wastes of South Africa. The weird sound from [...]
By Pat Lee Instruments are often divided by the way in which they generate sound: Wind instruments generate a sound when a column of air is made to vibrate inside them. The frequency of the wave generated is related to the length of the column of air and the shape of the instrument, while the [...]
