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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 ...
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 ...
An 1898 dictionary described the instrument as "The simplest form of a reed pipe, a straw with a strip cut to form the reed, at the end closed by the knot". [1] Similar instruments are made across a variety of cultures, while the specific term "oaten pipe" is found in English literature, connoting pastoral imagery.
The reed is idioglottal, meaning that it is a tongue cut but not detached from the reed itself. The reed was placed on the upper side of the instrument and vibrated against the upper lip; the pipe had six tone holes on top and one in the back. [3] Early chalmeaus used idioglot reeds, as shown in the debate as to whether to install reeds up or ...
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 ...
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
The octavin resembles a saxophone: its range is similar to that of a soprano saxophone.However, the octavin differs in three respects: first, its conical bore has a smaller taper than that of a saxophone; second, its body is made of wood, rather than metal; third, its usual shape is more similar to that of a bassoon, having two parallel straight sections joined at the bottom, with the ...