Woodwind Instruments

yes,got one a few years ago never had to repair it yet.

i dont know you tell me

i have no idea XD. i am just kiding the names are register keys and each one plays a different note depending how many buttons u hold. for example to play a G DO NOT hold any keys.

A 'Recorder Player'

Some call it a 'Recordist' but that primarily pertains to the art of making sound recordings. The Recorder instrument is a type of flute, so the player could also be called a 'Flautist'.

French horn, piano.

The clarinet has a much larger range than the saxophone - over three full octaves in the useable range, not including the upper altissimo. That normal range is from written E, an octave below the treble staff, to G an octave above the treble staff. The most common clarinet is the Bb soprano, and the range sounds from concert D in the middle of the bass clef to concert F, an octave above the treble staff.

The alto sax is in Eb with a written range from Bb just below middle C to F or F#, an octave above the treble staff. The range sounds from Db in the middle of the bass clef (one half tone lower than the lowest clarinet note), to Ab or A, one ledger line above the treble staff. That's six notes of the scale below the top of the normal clarinet range.

The same written note sounds a fifth (five scale notes, inclusive) lower on the alto sax. For example, a written middle C sounds a concert Bb on the clarinet and the next lower concert Eb on the alto sax.

c c c d f c f g B natural f g h

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there are many brands of clarinets that you can buy. depending on what level you are on and what you are willing to spend are big factors on what kind of clarinet you should puchase. there are many entry level clarinets that are primarly for beginners such as vito, jupiter, leblanc, yamaha, selmer, artley, and many more(mostly every brand of istruments has beginning, intermediate, and advanced/professional level instruments). these clarinets are most of the time around 500 to 800 dollars and are made of plastic. next there are imtermediate and professional model clarinets. if you are going to buy one of theses step up model clarinets i sugest that you buy a buffet model. though there are other wodden clarinets that are professional model and intermediate level that you can buy the buffet model is what all of the professional clarinet players play on. Now the buffet clarinets are usually in the price range of 1000 to 3000 dollars depending on the model you buy. for example the buffet e-11 is an intermediate clarinet that is wooden with silver plated keys. these are usually a little over 1000 dollars without tax. my professional model buffet r-13 was $2962.80 with tax. It is an amazing instrument if you are planning to make somthing of your music or if you are a professional player looking for a new instrument. Heres a piece of advice. If you are buying a new wooden clarinet DO NOT buy it off of ebay. You may trust the dealer but unless you know the person personally or they live in your area don't do it. because you dont know if the instrument has cracks in the wood or in what state of condition the pads and screws are in. It is far more expensive but buying it from a trusted music store is your best bet if you are going to get a new instrument. I hope this helped you

Of the little I know about them my only source tells me no they are apparently an easy instrument to play

clarinet

Traditionally, the orchestra tunes to the oboe. This leaves the oboist with the responsibility of maintaining pitch-forks or an electronic tuner which is properly calibrated to produce the A (the note that the orchestra tunes to) his director demands, and to maintain a few reeds capable of producing this pitch in a strong and continuously accurate tone.

About the "A" that the orchestra tunes to: since about 1948, A has been defined as 440 cycles per second (Hz, pronounced Hertz.) Some orchestra directors, however, prefer to tune their orchestras higher, to 441, 442, even as high as 445Hz. They believe that the strings sound brighter and louder, and that the other instruments improve in sound as a result of the higher pitch. (This is often circumvented by the players obtaining smaller instruments which play with the same tone at higher pitch, or string players placing their bridges closer to the nut so they have shorter strings!)

It is generally believed that the oboe is used as the pitch source to tune the orchestra because, of all the instruments, the oboe has the least ability to be varied. In this way of thinking, the oboist makes their reeds and strives to be able to play in tune, and since they can't be adjusted, whatever the oboist comes up with is what everyone has to accept and adjust to. There may be some truth to this legend.

On the other hand, the oboe actually has a fairly large range of variability if the reed is well made and the oboist is professional-grade. (Consider this: If oboes were so impossible to tune, how could a Berlioz symphony employ four of them?)

In actual fact, today, most orchestra musicians are already well-tuned to electronic tuners before the oboist sounds the first note, and the oboe-note/tuneup session is more for show than for real tuning.

double reed

depends on how you want your clarinet but based all together most people in the us buy their clarinet from that brand

one intersting fact is .. the name oringaly came from the guy who made it

The bassoon.

Andy Hamilton played the saxophone in the studio recording (and on tour), but in the video, filmed in Antigua, it is bassist John Taylor miming playing the sax on top of the cliff, and keyboardist Nick Rhodes doing the same (while nearly losing his balance) on a raft in the shallow waters off Shirley Heights.

If you are talking about pitch as in notes, a clarinet player presses a combination of keys to create a note, and there are sometimes alternate fingering(s) to create the same note. If you are talking about pitch as in sharp/flat, clarinet players can tune their instrument slightly flat by pulling out on the barrel (the connector between the mouthpiece and the "body" of the clarinet) and vice versa for making it sharp.

Saxaphone or cymbals

Both the oboe and the bassoon are double reed instruments and belong to the woodwind family.

Clarence played tenor sax.

2 years

The orchestra's woodwind SECTION is comprised of four FAMILIES of instruments: the flutes, the oboes, the clarinets and the bassoons. Each of these families will, in turn, have different members (or sizes) of instruments. For example, the flute family has (from smallest to largest) 4 main members: the piccolo, the flute, the alto flute and the bass flute. There are others as well (like the contrabass flute), but you'd rarely see them in a concert orchestra (but, maybe in a film score). The other families have different members as well. OBOES: the oboe, the English Horn, the bass oboe, CLARINETS: clarinets in Eb, Bb, A, Eb alto, Bb bass clarinet, Eb and Bb contrabass clarinets, BASSOONS: the bassoon and contrabassoon.

There are two main differences between the different woodwinds: 1) their reeds (the part that makes the initial sound) and (2) their shape and composition. The flute has a blowhole as its "reed" and takes a fair amount of breath to play (but nowhere near as much as brass instruments). The body of the flute is cylindrical, giving it a round tone, and silver making it bright. The clarinet has a cylindrical body as well, giving it a round tone as well and is usually made of wood or ebony making the tone "darker" than the flute. However the clarinet has a single reed (like a saxophone) which is somewhat difficult to control making it more difficult to play in tune than the other woodwinds.

The oboe and bassoon families are double reed instruments. Their reeds are doubled back on themselves and have a fussy (or particular) embouchure. They take a smaller amount of air to sound but need a lot of pressure (especially the oboes). The shape of the body of the double reeds gets wider along the length of its resonator (the tube) which results in more odd harmonics - making the instruments somewhat nasal in timbre.

Nothing really attaches a reed to a bassoon. It just slips onto the bocal which is attached to the bassoon and is held there by friction.