Native Wind Instruments
Well there are different kinds of wind instruments. Some are woodwinds like clarinets flutes saxes bassoons English horns and oboes and sone are brass like French horns trumpets tubas and trombones.
The didgeridoo is an indigenous Australian instruments that is not formally categorised with any other family of instruments. At best, it would be considered to belong to the wind family.
If you're talking about meterology and the weather, the instrument that measures the wind is called an Anemometer. However, in terms of musical instruments, they are plainly refered to as the Wind Instruments, but can be further divided into two groups, the Brass Instruments and the Woodwind Instruments.
Two instruments for indicating wind direction are the wind sock and the wind vane. The wind vane is largely considered the more modern of the two.
The sound of Shehnai, Nadaswaram, long horn (wind instruments) and Nagara (large drum) is considered auspicious. They are played at the gate of a temple. When hymns are sung inside the temple, they use tablas, pitchers, cymbals, rattles, bells, and various wind-instruments, Flute, and various stringed instruments, sitar, etc.
They are all 'wind' instruments.
Many wind instruments are made of Brass, an alloy of copper and zinc.
In one word, wind instruments look like 'pipes'. They produce sound when air is blown into the instrument. There are wind instruments with no reeds, single reed and double reed.
There are several instruments that measure wind direction. Some instruments include something similar to a wind sock or wind vane, which are known as anemometers.
Flutes, harmonicas, and whistles need wind to be played. One word for wind instruments is "aerophones."(What I wrote)--------> Piccolos, too
because the sound is like a wood wind instrument.....and because the keys on a piano also make the sound, just like the keys on a flute It's not a woodwind instrument. Piano sound doesn't involve wind. Organs are wind instruments. Pianos are percussion instruments.