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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. Traditional Vietnamese musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    The instrument has twenty-three 800 mm (31 in)-long wire strings attached to a bamboo tube with a metal hose-clamp around the top rim. A 4 litres (0.88 imp gal; 1.1 US gal), rectangular olive oil tin, which acts as a resonator, is clamped to the base of the tube. The instrument is capable of playing both Vietnamese and Western music.

  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. Music of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Việt Nam Cultural Profile - detailed overview of different music genres plus directory of key contacts; Young Vietnamese pop culture music Da Nhat Yen; Music of the Montagnards of Vietnam, part 1 - a panorama of tribal music in Vietnam by Tran Quang Hai; Music of the Montagnards of Vietnam, part 2 - a panorama of tribal music of Vietnam by ...

  6. Đàn bầu - Wikipedia

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    The dúxiánqín (Sino-Vietnamese: độc huyền cầm; Chinese: 獨絃琴) is essentially the same instrument but given a Mandarin name, played by the Jing people in China, who are ethnically Vietnamese. The instrument was introduced to China when the Jing Islands off the coast of Dongxing, Guangxi were ceded to China by France.

  7. 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

  8. 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 ...

  9. Sáo - Wikipedia

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    Most frequently made from a single piece of bamboo, the sáo measures between 40 and 55 centimeters in length and 1.5 to 2 centimeters in diameter, with six or ten finger holes and a tuning slide. [1] [2] Located inside the bamboo tube, near the oval blowing hole, is a soft wooden piece that adjust pitches when necessary. The first hole after ...