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- Contrabass clarinet (751 bytes)
1: ...contralto have been made, this is the lowest commonly used clarinet.
2: ... Bass-clarinet, and Vito has a resonite (plastic) instrument. - Contrabassoon (3761 bytes)
5: *The instrument is twice as long, curves around on itself several...
6: ...ably more air volume required in playing, and the instrument does not respond as quickly.
8: *The instrument comes in one piece (plus [[bocal]]); it does not ...
11: ...solid underpinning to the orchestra. Although the instrument can have a distinct 'buzz', which becomes almost ...
14: ...ing instrument, which came in four parts and had only three keys, was built in 1714. It was around tha... - Cor anglais (2674 bytes)
1: ...ld be a tenor oboe in F (that is, a [[transposing instrument]]).
7: ...tendinitis or carpal tunnel's from supporting the instrument's weight over for long periods.
9: ...eds moist and to prevent moisture damage to their instrument by swabbing it out frequently.
13: "Cor anglais" is generally the name of the instrument used in Britain and culturally-affiliated countri...
15: Despite its name, the instrument is not thought to be [[England|English]] in origi... - Crumhorn (1946 bytes)
1: The '''crumhorn''' is a [[musical instrument]] of the [[woodwind]] family. It was popular in t...
6: ...; the end is bent upwards in a curve, so that the instrument resembles a banana, or more prosaically, the lett...
8: ...sic for crumhorns is usually played by a group of instruments of different sizes and hence at different pitche...
10: ...source of more useful information on this musical instrument can be found on the Crumhorn Home Page at http://... - Flute (11293 bytes)
1: ...t]] of the [[woodwind]] family. Unlike other wind instruments, a flute produces its sound from the flow of air...
3: ... are sweet in character and blend well with other instruments. The flute's timbre, pitch and attack are flexib...
7: ...0 to 37,000 years ago is the oldest known musical instrument. [http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2004/12/3...
9: ...hat directs the air onto the edge. This makes the instrument easier to play, but takes a degree of control awa...
11: ...stern concert flute, [[piccolo]], [[fife (musical instrument)|fife]], and [[bansuri]]; and [[end-blown flute]]... - Vertical flute (689 bytes)
1: ...ate in the same manner as a transverse flute. The instrument is just as easy to tune as a standard flute, but ... - Heckelphone (1998 bytes)
1: ...he late [[19th century]]. It is a [[double reed]] instrument of the [[oboe]] family, but with a wider bore and...
3: ...ere unclear as to the distinction between the two instruments.
8: *[[List of musical instruments]] - Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
1: ...an insufficient number of truly powerful woodwind instruments with very high tessituras. Pitched in F, a perfe...
3: ...one, Strauss ultimately did not score for it and only a single prototype was ever built.
5: ...in F has an extremely wide bore. The angle of the instrument's conicity is quite wide (though not as wide as t...
7: ...in [[1955]] due to lack of interest. Apparently, only one was ever sold.
9: ...heckelphone at the [[Leipzig University]] musical instrument museum. Of the rest, some may have been destroyed... - Jug (1886 bytes)
3: As a [[musical instrument]], the jug provides a rhythmic [[bass (musical te...
7: The jug as a musical instrument reached its height of popularity in the 1920s, wh...
9: ...ne cans, etc.). The jug is primarily an acoustic instrument, although amplified and "electric jugs" appear fr...
11: ... jugs, since it is relatively quiet and produces only a single pitch. (It is more typically used for p... - Nose flute (4426 bytes)
1: The '''nose flute''' is a musical instrument played in [[Polynesia]] and the [[Pacific rim]] c...
13: ...rior diameter of other nose flutes, the range is only in one [[octave]] and in the playing position, t...
15: ...in the bowl of the gourd to vary the pitch of the instrument. - Oboe (5230 bytes)
3: ...eaning "high wood". It is so-named because of the instrument's rather high and reedy sound. A [[musician]] wh...
5: ==The instrument==
7: ...rident tone that is difficult to blend with other instruments. However, the advanced oboist can produce a rich...
9: ... the position of the [[reed (music)|reed]] in the instrument, but by altering the scrape of the reed itself. S...
11: ... wrote extensively for it. It was the main melody instrument in early military bands until ousted by the clari... - Pan pipes (2209 bytes)
2: ...iota;γξ) has long been popular as a folk instrument, and is considered the ancestor of both the [[pip...
4: ... a wax - commonly [[beeswax]] - to tune their new instruments.
8: ...s both singular and plural.) Other names for the instrument include '''panflute''' and the [[medieval]] name ... - Piccolo (2812 bytes)
6: ...instrument. A typical flute section may include only one or two piccolos, and since piccolo players u...
20: *[[Violin#Related_instruments|Piccolo violin]] - Recorder (12954 bytes)
1: ...fied by finger holes in the front and back of the instrument. Because of the fixed position of the windway wit...
3: .... It is now generally accepted, however, that the instrument intended was the sopranino recorder.
5: ...sume that mastery is similarly easy -- like other instruments, it requires talent and study to play it at an a...
9: ...The soprano and the alto are the most common solo instruments in the recorder family.
11: ...bell key. Basically, a recorder is a [[diatonic]] instrument, with one hole for each note of the scale of its ... - Sarrusophone (1431 bytes)
1: ... [[transposing instrument|transposing]] [[musical instrument]] invented by [[Pierre-Louis Gautrot]] in 1856 to...
3: ...an ophecleide [http://www.nikknakks.net/Euphonium/Instruments/ophecleide.html] in shape, and is played with a ...
9: The sarrusophone is now obsolete and only used as a novelty upon occasions. It had poor in... - Saxophone (14311 bytes)
3: ...d as both an [[orchestra]]l and [[military band]] instrument.
7: ...and unfortunate prejudice towards the man and his instruments led to it not being used in orchestral groups, a...
9: ...ity. This would explain why he chose to name the instrument the "voice of Sax."
11: ...ory Paris could legally manufacture or modify the instruments. After 1866 many modifications were introduced b...
14: ... the [[oboe]] than to the [[clarinet]]. However, unlike the [[oboe]], whose tube is a single cone, mos... - Musical instrument (3823 bytes)
1: ...trolled by a [[musician]], can serve as a musical instrument; but the expression is reserved generally to item...
3: The academic study of musical instruments is called ''[[organology]]''.
5: Instruments are often divided by the way in which they gener...
7: ...into [[Brass instruments|Brass]] and [[Woodwind]] instruments.
9: ...nating cavity, if any, determine the sound of the instrument. - Musician (3042 bytes)
1: ...classified by their role in production, including instrument and genre:
4: * An instrumentalist plays a [[musical instrument]].
12: ... [[Musical keyboard|keyboard]], nor are they the only creatures which respond to (or produce) [[rhythm...
18: ...Instrumentalist (a musician who plays a [[musical instrument]]).
50: ... instrument + ''"ist"'', it does not work for all instruments. ''Trumpetist'' for example is nonsense. There a... - Alto saxophone (1789 bytes)
2: ...The less tubing an instrument has, the higher the instrument's range is.
6: The alto saxophone is a [[transposing instrument]] and reads the [[treble clef]] in the key of E f...
8: ... exist. It has great versatility and is used commonly in concert, jazz, funk, blues, pop, and rock mus...
10: .... The alto and tenor saxophones are the most commonly played. Some companies that produce saxophones a... - Shakuhachi (6042 bytes)
1: ...i]], showing its ''utaguchi'' (blowing edge) and inlay ]]
18: ...can produce virtually any note they wish from the instrument, and play a wide repertoire of original Zen music...
26: ...hogun to give them "exclusive rights" to play the instrument! In return, some were required to spy for the sho...
30: ...ld be played just as easily on another pentatonic instrument. However, the honkyoku repertoire was known exclu...
32: ... shakuhachi again, it was only as an accompanying instrument to the [[koto]], [[shamisen]], etc. It was not un...
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