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  2. Single-reed instrument - Wikipedia

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    Much later, single-reed instruments started using heteroglottal reeds, where a reed is cut and separated from the tube of cane and attached to a mouthpiece of some sort. By contrast, in a double reed instrument (such as the oboe and bassoon ), there is no mouthpiece; the two parts of the reed vibrate against one another.

  3. Clarinet - Wikipedia

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    The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches. The clarinet family is the largest woodwind family, ranging from the BB♭ contrabass to the E♭ soprano .

  4. Category:Single-reed instruments - Wikipedia

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    422.2: Instruments in which the player's breath is directed against a single lamellae which periodically interrupt the airflow and cause the air to be set in motion. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.

  5. Saxophone - Wikipedia

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    An instrument that overblows at the octave has identical fingering for both registers. Sax created an instrument with a single-reed mouthpiece and conical brass body. Having constructed saxophones in several sizes in the early 1840s, Sax applied for, and received, a 15-year patent for the instrument on 28 June 1846. [12]

  6. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Instrument Picture Classification H-S Number Origin Common classification Relation Accordina: aerophones: 412.132: France: free reed instruments: accordion

  7. Reed (mouthpiece) - Wikipedia

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    The earliest types of single-reed instruments used idioglottal reeds, where the vibrating reed is a tongue cut and shaped on the tube of cane. Much later, single-reed instruments started using heteroglottal reeds, where a reed is cut and separated from the tube of cane and attached to a mouthpiece of some sort. By contrast, in an uncapped ...

  8. List of woodwind instruments - Wikipedia

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    Reed contrabass/Contrabass à anche; Rhaita (North Africa) Rothphone; Sarrusophone (but often played with single reed mouthpiece) Shawm (Schalmei) Sopilas (Croatia) Sornas (Persia) Suona (China) Surnayers (Iran) Taepyeongso (Korea) Tárogatós (Hungary; up to about the 18th century) Tromboon; Trompeta china (Cuba) Zurla (Macedonia) Zurna

  9. Heckelphone-clarinet - Wikipedia

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    It has a single-reed mouthpiece attached to a short metal neck, similar to an alto clarinet. [1] The heckelphone-clarinet is a transposing instrument in B ♭ with sounding range of D 3 (middle line of bass staff) to C 6 (two ledger lines above the treble staff), written a whole tone higher.