Woodwind Instruments

The clarinet was developed from an instrument called the Chalemeau.

Joseph Denner is credited with making changes to the chalemeau and developing the what we now call the clarinet.

In the late 1700's many improvements were made and keys were added to the clarinet and Iwan Muller came up with a 13 keyed model that stayed in favor into the 1800's

In the 1840's Klose and Buffet then adapted the fingering system of the flute to the clarinet to create the instrument we are familiar with today.

Extra keys wp you can hit notes more clearly, and easier, and so you can hit notes you cant get in the beginner models, and the better quality instrument tends to be made out of wood, for a more richer sound, instead of plastic.

The oldest flute ever discovered may be a fragment of the femur of a juvenile cave bear, with two to four holes, found at Divje Babe in Slovenia and dated to about 43,000 years ago. The authenticity of this fact, however, is often disputed.

It looks like am much larger recorder. It has a few extra keys and a reed which is a small wooden piece that you suck on and then put into the liguture which is two screws which keep the mouthpiece together. The last piece is called a bell and it looks like a bell on the outside. The clarinets inside looks like a cylinder with a tiny piece of it sticking out slightly in one spot.

Like leanring to play all instruments, getting a Private Instructor, prefferably a professional, is the best way to learn.

However, if cannot afford to have a private instructor, reliable websites, music books (specifically for oboe), and reed makers as well as your band director (MIGHT) provide good info on learning the oboe.

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There were quite a few models of Normandy clarinet - some plastic (Resotone), some wood, some a mix of wood and plastic parts. If I knew specifically what model you're asking about, I'd have to then ask about condition. Is the wood (or plastic) undamaged? Is the plating clean? Anything bent or damaged? Does it have a good case that doesn't smell and is it the original one?

Without more info simply saying "about 800" is totally meaningless, and it would take a vtruly special Normandy to hit that high a price. A realistic range (including all the various lastic and wood models) might be between $25 and $500, but I'm sure that doens't help you very much.

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Saxophones are from the Woodwind family because they are played from a reed, even though they are made out of brass.

Woodwind instruments can be put into two different categories, flutes and reeds. Examples of woodwind instruments are piccolo, flute, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, contrabassoon, bagpipes and recorder.

no, the reeded insterments are clarinets, saxaphones, bass clarinets, oboes, bassoons, etc. the flute doesn't have a reed, the sound is projected by blowing over the lip plate and creating the sound. the key's are to change the notes. :]

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A player blows down the reed attached to the mouthpiece, which vibrates and gives sound. The pitch is produced when the air blows out of the holes on the clarinet and out of the bell at the bottom. The pitch can be changed by closing or opening holes, changing the amount of air that can escape and changing the note. The timbre can be changed by using a mute, which partially covers the bell at the bottom.

The Proper name for the bass guitar is The Electric Bass.It has a closer relationship with the upright bass rather than the guitar.The first bass that was electrified, was an upright bass that was the size of a cello back in the early 1930's by Paul Tutmarc from Spokane ,Washington. He had taken a pickup made out of a telephone transducer and used the basstrings from a piano as strings for his electric bass. He had first used this pick up on guitars. He wanted to make it easier for the upright bass to be heard as many on that instrument had to play very hard to be heard without ampification, unless the bass could be mmicrophoned. In 1941, Paul reduced the size of the bass to make it easier to transport and store. It's design looked much like the electric basses that we play today.This bass was known as the Serenader and sold for 139 bucks back in the late 1940's it included a case. In 1951 Guitar maker Leo Fender invented the first successful electric bass known as the Precision Bass. The bass that really made it popular.During the fifties and early 60's the Upright bass was still the dominant bass in Pop music.The first Jazz bassist to play electric bass was Monk Montgomery. In 1963 Female bassist and Studio legend Carol Kaye picked up a Fender electric Bass and created a sound that became popualr on a many ahit record. James Jamerson also had a distinctive sound .Fender created a second sucessful bass the Jazz bass wich first debuted in 1960. Over the years Fender has kept these basses in production and makes many different models and configurations .Always craeting something new each year. The first bass to feature active electronics was the Alembic Bass the Creation of Ron Wickersham.Stanley Clarke, Phil Lesh and John Paul Jones really popularized the use of these basses. Stanley Still uses Alembics as his main basses after 37 years. The electric bass has evolved thru the years not olny by the many manufacturers of this instrument but also the players. Some are: Jaco pastorius, Larry Graham ( the creator fo the Slap technique on electric bass),Anthony Jackson ,Marcus Miller,Louis Johnson, Rocco Prestia, Bernard Edwards, Geddy Lee,Carol Kaye, Victor Wooten, Lincoln Goines , Mark King and many others. All comments in this post are only as accurate as the information available to me. Please check all sources.The info was contained from several different sources. R. Ford

D major is: D, E, F sharp, G, A, B, C sharp, D.

D minor is: D, E, F, G, A, A sharp, C sharp, D.

you can usually find it on the bell and the barrel, sometimes even the ligature that came with it, of your clarinet.

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A contrabassoon, also known as a double bassoon. It plays an octave lower than a regular bassoon. Hope this helped! xx

No, when Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone he was actually trying to invent the bass clarinet. The Oboe is a double reed instrument related to the bassoon and cor anglais. The saxophone and the clarinet use a single reed.

It's range is between a flute and clarinet, and thus has certain characteristics of each. It also can be compared to a trumpet (and often has duets with trumpets), but not as strident, more subdued. It also can sound similar to violins but more robust and darker.

A tambourine is a percussion instrument with no actual musical range. The frequency response of a tambourine without a head could be considered to be above 1Khz while a tambourine with a head would have a frequency respone above let's say 200 Hz with the head producing the lower frequency tones and the jingles producing the high frequency tones.

Make your fingers as though to play a low C, but add the key that's under the octave key. In other words, finger a low C but add the bottom thumb key.

No, the flute is much higher than the saxophone and gets up to higher octaves. The most equivalent instrument to it's own kind would probably be the oboe. Piccolo is the highest instrument, which is part of the flute family.

The clarinet used to be made of a typre of wood, called grenadilla wood. Now, many clarinets are made of different woods, plastics, metals, and sizes. The type of clarinet depends on what it's made from, and how it's designed.

NO! Never soak your clarinet in water, and try your best to keep it out of humid climates. Humidity and water will ruin the pads covering your clarinet's holes and loosen the cork around the joints, leaving it unable to produce any noise and impossible to put together. The only part of a clarinet that can withstand moisture is the mouthpiece, and this is only if it is plastic (as most clarinet mouthpieces are plastic). Do however swab out the insides of your clarinet on a regular basis and clean the holes with a Q-tip and wipe down the clarinet body with a soft rag or towel.

No, the English horn (in F) is the tenor oboe.

The alto oboe is the oboe d'amore which is in A.

Disagree: the English Horn is an ALTO-pitched instrument in 3-foot F. The oboe (in 2-foot C) is a SOPRANO instrument. The oboe d'amore is pitched between soprano and alto, so is called MEZZOSOPRANO in pitch. A 4-foot oboe is at TENOR pitch, but is usually misnamed the baritone or bass oboe.

For guidance, simply check the saxophone family at the same (or very close) lengths and pitches. The 1 1/2 foot instrument is SOPRANINO, the 2-foot instrument is SOPRANO, the 3-foot ALTO, and the 4-foot TENOR. Then BARITONE for 6-foot pitch and BASS for 8-foot pitch. We can the add the 12-foot pitch and call it SUBBASS, then 16-foot pitch is CONTRABASS (there is no saxophone at the 16-foot pitch, but there is a 16-foot CONTRABASS tubax [look it up]).

The sarrusophone family are also conical double reed woodwinds, made of brass with a wide bore. They are named exactly as are the saxophone family; logically, from SOPRANINO 1.5-foot to CONTRABASS 16-foot..