please help we need to know this as a music homework and i cant find it on the web and i dont know anything about the instument
2007-01-10 06:36:05 · 9 answers · asked by george b 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Ordinarily any instrument with a reed like a clarinet or saxophone is a woodwind. A flute is also a woodwind. Any instrument with strings is of course a strings instrument. Any intrsument that you buzz you lips to make the actual sound, like the trumpet or tuba, is brass and finally any instrument that you hit to make a sound is percussion.
2007-01-10 06:41:07 · answer #1 · answered by msi_cord 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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 As the name implies, such instruments were originally made of wood, but some modern woodwinds, such as the saxophone, are made of other materials.
The clarinet meets all the criteria and is a woodwind instrument.
2007-01-10 06:45:32 · answer #2 · answered by Watchstopper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube), in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at the end of the resonator. The pitch of the vibration is determined by the length of the tube and by manual modifications of the effective length of the vibrating column of air.
Opening and closing holes in the side of the tube to adjust the effective length of the vibrating air column (this can be done by covering the holes with fingers or pressing a key which then closes the hole). This is most common on woodwind instruments. (like clarinets)
2007-01-10 06:42:09 · answer #3 · answered by Vena cava 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saxophone is a woodwind my friend got first chair in the high school state band. They only except 10 for each instrument. I play clarinet though but it's alot of work so you obviously don't want to play it.
2016-05-23 05:19:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The clarinet is classified as a woodwind because
1) They were all made from pure wood when they were first created. Unlike now. Most clarinets I've looked at lately are a wood-plastic type mix...
2) They use a wooden reed.
2007-01-11 12:58:52 · answer #5 · answered by Bippity Boppity Boo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's made of wood (ebony) and it is a wind instrument. Wood + Wind = woodwind. Woody and windy. Woodwind. Not brass. Wood.
What I can't figure out is why a FLUTE is a woodwind. Now THAT'S a question.
2007-01-10 06:42:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it has a reed on the mouthpeice, which is usually made of wood (although the plastic ones last a lot longer haha!)
2007-01-10 06:43:26 · answer #7 · answered by beshi33 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it was once made out of wood and you blow through it, hence wood-wind!
2007-01-10 06:45:05 · answer #8 · answered by paula3001uk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you blow into it.
(I feel like I am being set up. Why?)
2007-01-10 06:40:59 · answer #9 · answered by Buttercup Rocks! 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋