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  2. Single-reed instrument - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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

  6. 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 .

  7. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Instrument Picturek Classification H-S Number Origin Common classification Relation Acme siren: aerophones: 112.122: England. Developed and patented in 1895. Acme is the trade name of J Hudson & Co of Birmingham, England. It was sometimes known as "the cyclist's road clearer" unpitched percussion: whistle Afoxé: idiophones: 112.122: Edo ...

  8. Zhaleika - Wikipedia

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    The zhaleika consists of a single reed that can be covered by a mouthpiece (or "wind cap"). The design consists of a wooden barrel (pipe) with finger holes and a flared bell that can be made of either natural or man-made materials. [1] It can either consist of a single or a double pipe. The single pipe is about 10–20 cm long with 3 to 7 ...

  9. Octavin - Wikipedia

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    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 ...