what type of instrument is a woodwind?

Answer 1

A woodwind is any instrument that is made out of wood, was originally made out of wood, or uses a reed in order to play it.

Answer 2

A woodwind instrument is a wind instrument (two categories: brass and wood) made of wood. Wind instruments produce their sound when a column of air is set in motion via the focused blowing of air into the mouthpiece of the instrument. Woodwind instrument include: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, sax and recorder. While the flute and recorder do not have a reed all other woodwinds have a single or double reed - made of sugar cane or plastic which is set in motion by the player when he or she blow into the instrument. The shape of the woodwind - cone, curved, straight column, determines the "timbre" or tone color produced by the instrument together with the kind of wood and the density of the wood. Oboes, English Horns (actully a longer oboe with a bulbous end) and bassoons employ double reeds - two thin reeds facing each other in which the air moved between them setting them into vibration. The clarinet and sax employ a single reed. All of the woodwinds come in various sizes - the longer size producing a lower range of sounds. Flutes include C concert flute, alto flute, bass flute and the piiccolo which sounds one octave higher than the flute. Clarinets include bass clarinets as well as those in various pitched keys such as Bb and A. The bassoon's lower relative is the contrabassoon - the lowest pitched instrument of the orchestra.The sax, invented in 1856,includes soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass. Woodwind instruments changed drastically in the 19th century with the development of the Boehm system in which mechanical keys with a series of levers, rods and springs provided greater control, more flexibility and fluid performance. All woodwind instruments (all winds in fact) require the player to master an "embouchure" or lip position which facilitates accurate production of a rich, full tone and the ability to produce several different pitches using the identical fingering. A natural series of acoustic "overtones" affords the production of higher pitches according to the overtone series - a naturallaw of sympathetic harmonics. Woodwinds form the backbone of the symphony orchestra along with the strings. Depending upon the musical literature they are used extensively in the major concert works of the 19th century. Almost all musical cultures of the world include instrumental relatives of the Wesstern World woodwinds.Flutes of almost unlimited variety are found in various cultures and woddwinds were more than likely used by primitive man immediately after the first use of percussion - wood, rock, etc.
Bone flutes have been discovered in various archeological sites around the world. The closely related fingering of the woodwind instruments allows professional musicians to master two ormore of the woodwind family. It is quite common to find clarinet players who also play the sax- Broadway musical orchestra pits are one of the best sources of this. Many woodwind instruments that were staples of certain historic periods are no longer found in contemporary ensembles. Some examples are the REBEC and SHAWM heard throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance and the Hecklephone found in some mid-Romantic orchestral works.

Answer 3

A woodwind instrument is a wind instrument in which sound is produced by blowing through a mouthpiece against an edge or by a vibrating reed, and in which the pitch is varied by opening or closing holes in the body of the instrument. As the name implies, such instruments were originally made of wood, but some modern woodwinds, such as the saxophone, are made of other materials

Answer 4

any of a group of wind musical instruments, composed of the flutes and reed pipes (i.e., clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone). Both groups were traditionally made of wood, but now they may also be constructed of metal.

Woodwinds are distinguished from other wind instruments by the manner in which the sound is produced. Unlike the trumpets or other instruments of the brass family, in which the airstream passes through the player's vibrating lips directly into the air column, the flutes are sounded by directing a narrow stream of air against the edge of a hole in a cylindrical tube. With the reed pipes (e.g., clarinets and saxophones), a thin strip of flexible material, such as cane or metal, is placed against the opening of the mouthpiece, forcing the airstream to pass through the reed before it reaches the column of air that is to vibrate. In double-reed instruments (oboes and bassoons), two thicknesses of reeds are used. The woodwind section of a band or orchestra usually consists of three flutes, one piccolo, three oboes, one English horn, three clarinets, one bass clarinet, three bassoons, and one contrabassoon.

Answer 5

1. a musical wind instrument of the group comprising the flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons, and occasionally, the saxophones.
2. woodwinds, the section of an orchestra or band comprising the woodwind instruments.
–adjective 3. of, relating to, or composed of woodwinds.

Answer 6

They are reed instruments: oboe, clarinet, sax, french horn, etc. Think of the musicians you see sucking on a reed before the orchestra or band tunes their instruments, and you will see the woodwinds. Exceptions to this (that are also woodwinds) are flute and recorder.

Answer 7

A woodwind is any instrument that was traditionally made of wood or used wood to produce the sound (such as a reed).

Answer 8

Anf instrument that uses a reed, which is a wooden piece that you use to make the sound. Clarinets, saxiphones, oboes. Plus flutes (not sure how they fit in, but they do)

Answer 9

it is an instrument made out of wood...... It is played by blowing the hole where it should be blown........ Like flute, clarinet, etc.

Answer 10

Things like oboes,bassoons, clairinets, and flutes.