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The Woodwind Fingering Guide: Online Fingering Charts For Flute, Piccolo, Record
A growing resource of fingering charts for woodwind instruments. answer questions about fingerings and technique in the Woodwind Fingering Forum, and sign the Guestbook while you are the charts for the other instruments) as have been done for the
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TWO V3.2: Cracks In Woodwind Instruments
An article by Edmund Nielsen giving tips on how to avoid cracks in instruments.Category Arts Music Instruments Winds Woodwinds ClarinetCracks in woodwind instruments. by Edmund Nielsen. Editor's Cracks inwoodwind instruments are caused by neglect. A strong statement? A
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Extractions: Editor's Note: Edmund Nielsen, who has been repairing woodwind instruments for 30 years, operates his own woodwind repair business in Chicago. He is also currently first oboist of the Elmhurst (Illinois) Symphony Orchestra. This article is reprinted from the January issue of the "Instrumentalist" with the kind of permission of the author and the publisher. Cracks in woodwind instruments are caused by neglect. A strong statement? A statement scarcely calculated to win friends? True. But it is based on over 30 years of repair experience. We all worry about those cracks that develop in the upper half of the upper sections of oboes, English horns and clarinets. Over the years, I have repeatedly analyzed this problem and have come to the conclusion that this cracking is the result of allowing the inner fibers of the wood at the bore to expand suddenly and excessively while the outer wood surfaces are in a contracted condition. That we are dealing with an extremely powerful force is demonstrated by the common examples that we can see around us. Who has not seen a sidewalk or a street that has cracked as a result of tree roots which have expanded? Each individual root fiber may be very minute, but when it expands and adds to the stress of the fiber next to it the resultant force is enough to cause the pavement to crack. An even more common example is the way that many wooden doors and windows stick in damp humid weather, but move freely when drier weather returns.
ThinkQuest Library Of Entries
Like brass instruments, woodwind instruments require being blown; however, theydiffer from brass instruments in that they rely on a wooden reed to vibrate
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Extractions: The web site you have requested, The Interactive Music Emporium , is one of over 4000 student created entries in our Library. Before using our Library, please be sure that you have read and agreed to our To learn more about ThinkQuest. You can browse other ThinkQuest Library Entries To proceed to The Interactive Music Emporium click here Back to the Previous Page The Site you have Requested ... click here to view this site Click image for the Site Awards Received Languages : Site Desciption This site offers an insightful discussion of how music is played over the Internet, and how new technologies are likely to change that in the future. It features a virtual keyboard that lets the user control variables to produce a variety of sounds.
Historical Woodwind Instruments
HISTORICAL woodwind instruments. ASW Guide To Historical woodwind instruments.Moeck Renaissance Studio Instruments. John Hanchet woodwind instruments.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Discover Classical Music
woodwind instruments. The principal woodwind instruments of the modern symphony orchestra are the FLUTE, CLARINET, OBOE,
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Extractions: Introductory Concerts Timeline of Classical Music Orchestra Tour Classical Music Glossary ... Radio Broadcasts Excerpts from Miles Hoffman's Woodwind Instruments The principal woodwind instruments of the modern symphony orchestra are the FLUTE, CLARINET, OBOE, and BASSOON . Each of these instruments is the head of a family, or section. The flute family includes the flute and piccolo; the clarinet family includes the clarinet, bass clarinet, and E-flat clarinet; the oboe family includes the oboe and English horn; and the bassoon family includes the bassoon and contrabassoon. The saxophone is also considered a woodwind instrument. A woodwind instrument is essentially a long tube, or pipe. In order for the instrument to sound, something must make the column of air inside the tube vibrate. The members of the clarinet, oboe, and bassoon families depend on reeds to set the air column vibrating; the player's breath makes the reed itself vibrate. The clarinet uses a single reed, which vibrates against the mouthpiece in which it's set, and the oboe and bassoon both use a double reed, whose split ends vibrate against each other between the player's lips. The members of the flute family are the only woodwind instruments that are not reed instruments. The mouthpiece of a flute is just an oval-shaped hole cut into the side of the instrument near one end. The player blows across (not into ) the hole, and the stream of breath strikes the sharp, far edge of the hole, setting up localized air vibrations. These localized vibrations are what set the air column in the instrument vibrating. The same principle applies when blowing across the opening of a bottle to produce a sound.
Paul Beekhuizen - Early Woodwind Instruments
Paul Beekhuizen is a Dutch maker of early bagpipes and renaissance woodwind instruments.
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ASW Guide To Historical Woodwind Instruments
Discusses makers and types of historic woodwind instruments, beginning with the Medieval period.Category Arts Music Woodwinds Flute Historical and EthnicASW Guide to Historical woodwind instruments. Back to Historical WoodwindIndex Medieval woodwind instruments. As with recorders, there
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Extractions: Back to Historical Woodwind Index As with recorders, there are virtually no surviving woodwind instruments from prior to the sixteenth century; modern makers have been most ingenious in creating medieval instruments by extrapolating backwards from later renaissance instruments, incorporating European and folk instrument influences, and using depictions of instruments in paintings and wood and stone carvings as a point of departure. John Hanchet has created a set of five medieval shawms which are smaller and quieter in tone than the later, large bore instruments of the renaissance. They are also narrower in bore and a good deal easier to play than the later shawms. They are an excellent choice for the beginning reed player. We offer a variety of medieval woodwind instruments made by James Furner: gemshorns made from African oxhorn in five sizes, bone flutes, and horn cornetts. Whether windcap instruments per se Back to Top of Page In the sixteenth century, instrument makers developed large families of wind instruments from the sparser medieval instrumentarium; most instruments were made in four to eight different sizes and pitches. The taste of the period dictated the performance of music on contrasting choirs of like instruments, as well as in the mixed ensembles more common in the middle ages and in later periods. The palette of wind instrument colors was far more extensive in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries than at any other time in music history. Transverse flutes, of straight cylindrical bore with six open tone holes, were commonly used in alto, tenor, and bass sizes, although most modern makers provide a soprano size as well. Their simple, open sound contrasts well with renaissance recorder tone as well as with the many reed instruments.
How Do Woodwind Instruments Work?
How Do woodwind instruments Work? Sound. First something about sound. WoodwindInstruments. Some of the woodwinds are shown in the picture at right.
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Extractions: How Do Woodwind Instruments Work? First something about sound. If you put your finger gently on a loudspeaker you will feel it vibrate - if it is playing a low note loudly you can see it moving. When it moves forwards, it compresses the air next to it, which raises its pressure. Some of this air flows outwards, compressing the next layer of air. The disturbance in the air spreads out as a travelling sound wave. Ultimately this sound wave causes a very tiny vibration in your eardrum - but that's another story. Woodwind instruments have a long, thin column of air. The lowest note is played with all the tone holes closed, when the column is longest. The column is shortened by opening up holes successively, starting from the open end. At the other end there is something that controls air flow: an air jet for the flute family and cane reeds for other woodwinds. We shall look at these elements in turn. The air column. A sound wave can travel down the tube, reflect at one end and come back. It can then reflect at the other end and start over again. For a note in the lowest register of the flute, the round trip constitutes one cycle of the vibration. (In the lowest register of clarinets, two round trips are required: see Flutes vs clarinets ). The longer the tube, the longer the time taken for the round trip, and so the lower the frequency. In woodwind instruments, the effective length is changed by opening and closing finger- holes or keyholes along the side. This is the way pitch is changed within the same register of the instrument: all holes closed gives the lowest note, and opening the holes successively from the bottom end gives a chromatic scale. (The use of simple and cross-fingerings to change the length of the standing wave is discussed in much more detail and with specific examples in
Amus Internet Music House
Orchestral stringed and woodwind instruments and accessories, method books, sheet music (PDF format), guitars and basses, metronomes and music stands. Located in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Welcome To Guvnor.com
woodwind instruments. Use the menu bar on the left of the page to return to the major category headings.
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Music Shoppe . woodwind instruments. Return to Music Shoppe. ContinueTour of Instruments. Actually the term woodwind is one you
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Woodwinds
The Greeks and Romans had many woodwind instruments known as auloi and tibiae.
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Extractions: Other Sections : Woodwinds first appeared in the Neolithic Period as bone whistles. A hollow reed with one end closed was found to produce sound. This was accomplished by blowing across the open end. The most ancient musical instrument is a Syrinx or Pandean Pipes. It consists of a row of different lengths of hollow reeds. The Greeks and Romans had many woodwind instruments known as auloi and tibiae. The term flute was used for all single and double-reeded instruments and those with whistle mouthpieces. They eventually became the woodwind family because the instruments were originally made of wood. The development of the individual instruments is discussed in its section. A woodwind is defined as a tube or pipe through which the performer blows. A vibration is produced by the column of air or the reed. The pitch is determined by the length of the tube. Notes are produced by stopping the holes with the fingers or by keys. This changes the length of the tube.
MUSICAID BRASS WOODWIND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: Specialists In Brass And Woodwind M
Ontario, Canada Custom work, repair, lacquering of brass and woodwind instruments.
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Extractions: Specialists in Brass and Woodwind Musical Instrument Repair and Rebuilding Trumpets, trombones, horns, tubas, flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons, saxophones handled by professional rebuilders and musicians. We repair all brands and makes: Bach, Selmer, Yamaha, Conn, King, Holton.... Instruments can be reconditioned to look and play just like new! We can refinish any brass instrument with silver plate, gold plate, or clear lacquer at a fraction of the cost of a new one. Custom work, anything goes. Complete valve jobs! No problem. If your valves are leaking we can replate them oversized, hone out the casings and externally hone down the pistons to 1/1000th of an inch! All saxophones can be rebuilt from just a repad job, to complete disassemble, de-denting and refinishing to look like new! We do all repairs to woodwinds too. New keys made, repairing cracks and rebuilding tenons are our specialty. All work is professional and guaranteed. Purchase rebuilt brass and woodwind instruments... Not only do repair, rebuild and do custom work, but we buy and sell used instruments too. Do you have an old trumpet that you want to sell? Let us know, and we'll gladly quote you.
Woodwind Instruments
woodwind instruments. Woodwinds include the singlereed driven instruments(clarinets and saxophones), double-reed instruments (oboes
http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Courses/150/woodwinds.html

Extractions: Woodwinds include the single-reed driven instruments (clarinets and saxophones), double-reed instruments (oboes, bassoons, english-horns), and ``air-reed'' instruments (flutes, piccolos, and recorders). The common element to all these instruments is their use of toneholes to vary the effective length of their air column. If you wish to pursue a more in-depth analysis of woodwind instruments, perhaps for your class project, a unique collection of research materials is maintained here at CCRMA. The Musical Acoustics Research Library (MARL) is a collection of independent archives or libraries assembled by distinguished groups or individuals in the field of musical acoustics research. Currently, MARL is comprised of the Catgut Acoustical Society Library, the Arthur H. Benade Archive, the John Backus Archive, and the John W. Coltman Archive. Our current understanding of woodwind instrument acoustic behavior owes much to the work of Arthur Benade, John Backus, and John Coltman. Cylindrical Bores: See Section on Brasses Conical Bores:
Windband - Woodwind And Brass Instruments Specialists, Shrewsbury, UK
Brass and woodwind instruments. Lists services and instruments available. Repairs service.
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Extractions: We stock most contemporary makes of Woodwind and Brass instruments. These include some more unusual instruments such as; alto, bass and contrabass clarinets, sopranino saxophones, alto and bass flutes, garkleine and great bass recorders, alto trombones and sousaphones. Each price list only includes instruments we keep in stock. However, if you would like a woodwind or brass instrument that is not listed we can usually supply them so please contact us for more details. EDUCATION/A.I.P.S The Assisted Instrument Purchase Scheme allows parents to buy instruments from any music shop for their children 'VAT free' if the child is receiving tuition in a LEA school. Many of our customers purchase through us in this way and we are very familiar with the scheme. Please contact us for further details.
Real-time Computer Modeling Of Woodwind Instruments
next Introduction up JOS Home Contents Global Contents global_index GlobalIndex Index Search. Realtime Computer Modeling of woodwind instruments.
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Extractions: Princeton, New Jersey 08544-2087 USA This paper presents a digital waveguide woodwind instrument tonehole implementation which, in a single model, characterizes all states of the hole from open to closed. This efficient implementation produces results which agree well with previous acoustical analyses of the tonehole. A similar model is also presented for the register hole. A complete woodwind instrument model with many toneholes and register hole(s) is implemented in a cross-platform, C++ real-time computer programming environment. A new wind controller created to control the woodwind model is also briefly discussed.
Vocabulary
woodwind instruments Wind instruments such as the bassoon, clarinet, flute, oboe, or saxophone, in which sound is
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Extractions: Resonance: A system that can vibrate with a certain frequency is acted upon from the outside by a periodic disturbance that has the same frequency; vibrations of a larger amplitude of oscillation are produced by the piccolo. The Bore: The air column of the piccolo. The Frequency: The number of repetitions per unit of time of a complete wave form expressed by the formula fn= n(v/2L) Timbre: The characteristic of the sensation which enables the listener to recognize the instrument producing the tone. Tone: The sound intensity (also know as the Energy of vibration) (J) is the sound energy transmitted per unit of time by a unit area of the wave front and in the direction of propagation of the wave. Acoustics: The study of systems that produce and propagate what we recognize as sound. Simple Harmonic Motion: The type of oscillatory motion we obtain when the restoring force is proportional to the displacement. *ASIDE* Any other "none simple" kind of vibrating motion is more complicated to describe, and will usually be expressed in terms of a # of Simple Harmonic Motion. The Medium: The material in the intervening space when vibrations are transmitted from one place to another.
Woodwind Instruments
woodwind instruments. Flute Piccolo, Clarinet, Saxophone. Recorder,Oboe, Bassoon. Index Musical instruments. HyperPhysics***** Sound, GoBack.
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ABCP--Welcome To The African Blackwood Conservation Project Home Page
A nonprofit organization devoted to replanting this threatened species in Tanzania. Blackwood is the premier wood of choice for fine concert-quality woodwind instruments, and the tree plays a vital role in the ecology of the East African savannah.
http://www.blackwoodconservation.org

Extractions: Sebastian Chuwa has been honored as a recipient of the 2002 Rolex Awards for Enterprise. He has been chosen as an Associate Laureate and his award was presented to him in ceremonies in London Nov. 6. Sebastian has been recognized for his environmental conservation and educational projects on behalf of the African blackwood tree. The official Press Release and related information about the Rolex Awards may be viewed on this website. Welcome to the home page of the African Blackwood Conservation Project (ABCP). The aim of this project is to help replenish this valuable tree in Tanzania. Most people will not have knowingly seen blackwood but almost everyone will have heard it, for it is the premier wood of choice for fine concert-quality woodwind instruments such as clarinets, oboes and flutes, as well as being used in the manufacture of bagpipes. Blackwood is also the finest material available today for producing ornamental turning. In its African homeland, it is used to make intricate and highly detailed carvings, and plays a vital role in the ecology of the East African savannah. This website serves to document our efforts to perpetuate this remarkable natural resource. Despite its importance as a world timber there have been few conservation efforts to replenish the species. Although it is not yet on the endangered list the ABCP is taking efforts now to help assure that eventuality will not occur. To learn more about the wood, its homeland, this project, the people who are trying to make it happen and how you can help, click on the links in the banner above or the
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