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The first use of the heckelphone was in Richard Strauss's 1905 opera Salome. [2]: 324 The instrument was subsequently employed in the same composer's Elektra, as well as An Alpine Symphony [5] (though this part frequently calls for notes that are below the range of the heckelphone), [6] Josephslegende [7] and Festliches Präludium.
Alboka (Basque Country, Spain); Arghul (Egypt and other Arabic nations); Aulochrome; Chalumeau; Clarinet. Piccolo (or sopranino, or octave) clarinet; Sopranino clarinet (including E-flat clarinet)
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute , clarinet , oboe , bassoon , and saxophone . There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and reed instruments (otherwise called reed pipes).
Circumstantial evidence indicates that the baroque bassoon was a newly invented instrument, rather than a simple modification of the old dulcian. The dulcian was not immediately supplanted, but continued to be used well into the 18th century by Bach and others; and, presumably for reasons of interchangeability, repertoire from this time is very ...
The flute is a transverse (or side-blown) woodwind instrument that is closed at the blown end. It is played by blowing a stream of air over the embouchure hole. The pitch is changed by opening or closing keys that cover circular tone holes (there are typically 16 tone holes). Opening and closing the holes produces higher and lower pitches.
In brass instruments, the player's lips themselves vibrate, causing the air within the instrument to vibrate. In woodwind instruments, the player either: causes a reed to vibrate, which agitates the column of air (as in a saxophone, clarinet, oboe or duduk) blows over a fipple, across an open hole against an edge (as in a recorder or ocarina), or
A shakuhachi showing its utaguchi (blowing edge) and inlay Notched flute, showing U-shaped notch in the instrument’s rim.. The end-blown flute (also called an edge-blown flute or rim-blown flute) is a woodwind instrument played by directing an airstream against the sharp edge of the upper end of a tube.
Flutes are aerophones.. An aerophone (/ ˈ ɛər oʊ f oʊ n /) is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, [1] without the use of strings or membranes (which are respectively chordophones and membranophones), and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound (or idiophones).