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Most single-reed instruments are descended from single-reed idioglot instruments called 'memet', found in Egypt as early as 2700 BCE. [4] [page needed] Due to their fragility, no instruments from antiquity were preserved but iconographic evidence is prevalent. During the Old Kingdom in Egypt (2778–2723 BCE), memets were depicted on the ...
Đàn tre ("bamboo instrument") - A hybrid form of the Vietnamese plucked string instrument, similar to a Đàn tính, called a Đàn tre, was created by Nguyễn Minh Tâm, who escaped from Vietnam in 1982 and ultimately settled in Australia. The instrument has twenty-three 800 mm (31 in)-long wire strings attached to a bamboo tube with a ...
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.
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 ...
The instrument is made from a 15–30 cm length of the angelica plant (fadno, the term for one-year-old angelica), from which the instrument derives its name. [3] The instrument's reed categorized as an "idioglottic concussion reed", [4] meaning the reed is fashioned from the tube itself. [5] Fadnos were played with Sami drums together with joik.
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422.2 Single reed instruments - The pipe has a single 'reed' consisting of a percussion lamella. 422.21 (Single) clarinets. 422.211 With cylindrical bore. 422.211.1 Without fingerholes. 422.211.2 With fingerholes. Albogue; Alboka; Arghul; Chalumeau; Clarinet. Piccolo (or sopranino, or octave) clarinet; Soprano clarinet (including E-flat ...
The heckelphone-clarinet (or Heckelphon-Klarinette) is a rare woodwind instrument, invented in 1907 by Wilhelm Heckel in Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Germany. Despite its name, it is essentially a wooden saxophone with wide conical bore , built of red-stained maple wood, overblowing the octave, and with clarinet -like fingerings.