Woodwind Instruments

The saxophone comes from the two American inventors: Cheech (Richard Marin) and Chong (Tommy Chong). They accidentally built it after attempting to build a high-tech bong, then when they first tested it they realized that it made music. That is why they originally named it the "Musical Bong." Then when they needed extra income to buy more Marijuana, they sold it to Belgium. Later on Belgium named in the Saxophone, and took all the credit for its presence.

The saxophone makes a mix-between woodwind and brass sound. The saxophone has a unique sound though and it varies between which type of saxophone or even the player.

The saxophone generally makes a smooth-bold sound, but it may be hard to understand this in words. Bold in this case would be rich, filled, similar to a bold coffee. Certain people like bold coffees and certain people like a little weaker coffee, or an airier saxophone sound.

It is potentially a 1928 model. I found this page on the serial numbers related to the year of the clarinet. The link is located in the related links section below.

No. I play flute in a band that has an oboe, too, and they are two completely different instruments. You hold the flute sideways and blow into a lip hole and with the oboe you hold it down and blow on a double reed.

Orchestras are usually tuned to an oboe. The open note, (that is, the note an oboe plays without any fingering), is an A, and the orchestra tunes best to that note. When a piano is featured as solo instrument, the orchestra tunes to the A of the piano, because it's easier for them to adjust their pitch than for the piano.

Being the rock bottom is a name for being the very lowest.

Oboes only come in one size but the English horn is slightly larger and very similar to the oboe. The bassoon is also a double reed instrument and it is very large compared to the oboe.

Well I bought my clarinet when i was living in the states and it cost me about 800 dollars... which is a pretty fair price seeing as everyone else i know, who has a clarinet, bought it for over 1,000 dollars.

You play bassoon with your fingers, all of them, except for your right hand's ring finger. You blow into the bassoon through the reed, and you move your fingers to make the note change.

To make different notes that are not slurred (like above), you pulse your tongue back and forth against the reed.

Also, be sure to take long and deep breaths so that you can make a very full sound.

You play with all of your fingers including your right hand ring finger.

The two related links point to youtube videos provided by Reeds'n Stuff, showing a master class in reed making. The videos are in German (with English Translations of the tool names) which can be a little frustrating, but if a picture is worth a thousand words, these two videos are worth a whole lot more!

If you freeze the first video after the seven reed stages appear, they are, from left to right, the cleaned cane (arundo Donax is the common reed cane), split cane piece, a piece cut to length, the piece after the bottom is planed flat, after the sides are tapered and the bottom sanded, pre-shaped, and after the final shaping.

Watching the videos shows how these steps are achieved, and the amazing test of the reed after the final shaping: unlike double reeds, once the last shaping step is complete, the reed is finished!

The speed of the air being blown through it makes the vibrations. But the player uses their tongue to control the vibrations and help to define the different tones when playing!!

Hope this helped !! ;)

Artie Shaw played a Conn clarinet. His clarinet is now in the Smithsonian storage facility. Unfortunately, Conn is no longer an independent entity. It was acquired by Selmer, another company most commonly associated with Benny Goodman.

That completely depends! talking about an alto saxophone (as this is the most common, especially amongst beginners) the prices can Cary from £200 right up into the thousands. It is possible to but saxes for less than this by buying second hand which can be great value, but as a beginner who may not know what they are looking for if you decide on this option then I would recommend getting whatever you intend to buy checked out by a professional in order to ensure you are not left with huge repair costs. Another downside is that once you play you will realise just how much spit gets into the saxophone and you may be thoroughly put off! All I can say is you get what you pay for- the more expensive the sax the higher quality it will be so it will be easier to play and sound better in the long run.

The piccolo is generally used as a color instrument in a large ensemble, so it's not typically an instrument you start playing in order to get famous. That being said, there were a number of notable piccolo players in the bands of the 19th century (see link below), and some very fine piccolo concerti have been written in the past 20 years.

the piccalo is a very high instrument that is like a flute or oboe

No CNET in Bb Tuba is in BBb or also known as C

The organ belongs to the keyboard family of musical insturments, but it is also a wind instrument as opposed to a piano. A piano uses hammers that strike large strings similar to guitar or bass strings to produce it's tones, while the organ involves allowing air through specific valves to produce it's sound.

Musically, pitch is altered in genres like jazz on purpose. Moving one's jaw back and forth can vary the pitch; so can embouchure, or mouth position. A tight embouchure will produce a sharp note, a loose one a flat note, and of course to have a note in tune your embouchure has to be just right.

Sometimes pitch must be corrected because a clarinet must is out of tune. It the clarinet is sharp, start by pulling the barrel out slightly from the upper joint, and if it is still sharp when you've pulled it out as much as you can, try the bell, and pulling the upper joint from the lower joint. If a pitch is flat, push in. Sometimes the clarinet will be flat with everything fully pushed in; this means that the instrument is cold, which is why before you tune you must quite literally warm up- with scales, difficult passages, etc. If you are playing with others and notice that you are out of tune with them (you will hear a vibrating sound), either because you or they are out of tune (it is better to be equally flat than one person perfectly tuned and another flat), you can alter your embouchure to match their pitch.

If you are interested in the physics behind a clarinet, this is a great (but verbose, lengthy and extensive) resource: newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/clarinetacoustics.html

The Baritone oboe is the largest in the oboe family. Though if you mean in the double reed family it's the contrabasson. An oboist couldn't play the contrabassoon, but he could play the baritone oboe. It's 1 octave lower than the oboe.

The link below goes to a list of Leblanc clarinet serial numbers. If I understand this chart, it was probably made in 1998, but since they restarted the numbers in 1984-85, it might have been made in 1983 during the earlier run of numbers.

Since 1983 began with D25636 and ended with E13604, if the D-numbers ran all the way up to D35614 before they went to E-numbers, that would have been a run of 23,582 Vito instruments made that year. In 1982 they made 24,056 Vitos, so that's possible.

What I don't know is when the V40 model came out. Somebody else?

depending on the oboe and reed, you can reach different notes. I have never been able to go above the f above the staff, but my teacher can go higher. On the lower side, you can go to the b flat right below the staff. If you have an extension, you can hit the a below that.

Well, there are three main fingerings for a B on the clarinet. There is a lower B which is fingered thumb, 1,2,3, and 5. A higher B is fingered thumb, register, 1,2,3,4,5,6, and with both pinkies. A really high B is fingered thumb, register, and 1. There are many fingering books and charts out there, probably some online if you need more help.

An Oboe player. I don't believe there is another term for it

Woodwind instruments are woodwind for one of two reasons:

They are/used to be made out of wood (Eg a flute or clarinet)

They use a reed which is made of wood (Eg saxophone, oboe, bassoon)