Woodwind Instruments

First, you put the neck strap around your neck making sure the comfy bit is on the back of your neck,

Then you tighten or loosen it and start sucking on the reed to moisten it,

Next, you pick up the body in the case and attach it to the neck tightening on the screws if needed.

Last, you pick up the mouth piece, attach it to the neck piece, take off the ligature, put the reed on ever so carefully and without bumping the reed, slide the ligature back on and tighten.

Doubling refers to an instrumentalist who has to play more than one instrument in a performance. For flautists, it is most commonly piccolo. Clarinet players sometimes need to play other clarinets (Eb and Bass most frequently). It is pretty much expected that jazz saxophone players also be able to play flute and clarinet parts if they need to.

most of the first and second row is 1 count ok here it is :) (all the left hand)

1st row= all these until the period is 1 count!!!thumb,thumb,no button, above left pointer finger button,thumb,above pointer button,no button,thumb,thumb,no button,above pointer.

2 count.thumb, pointer button and thumb.

1 count.thumb,thumb,nothing,above pointer,above thumb and above pointer finger,above pointer,nothing,thumb,pointer and thumb,thumb and f1st 2nd 3rd pointer fingers,thumb and 1st and 2nd fingers,pointer and thumb.

2 count. thumb,thumb.

and that's how u play Yankee doodle!!! :D

No, sadly. The bassoon is one of the most uncommon instruments that their is in a band (except the recorder, which is about number two on the unpopular scale). If you want to play a unique instrument, then you should play bassoon.

The most popular double reed instruments are the bagpipes, bassoon, and oboe. Wikipedia has a more complete list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_reed.

The contrabassoon and the English horn also use a double reed.

The reed is the wooden piece that's used to create a sound on a woodwind instrument. Normally, only one reed is used, and it is held against a plastic piece at the top of the instrument. However, in double reed instruments, there are two reeds that are tied together. When you blow air between these reeds, they both vibrate, producing a timbre distinct to double reed instruments.

This is an oboe. The wonders of google.

Along with every clarinet, the bass clarinet is a single reed instrument.

To tongue on your clarinet all you do is put it in playing position (mouthpiece, wet reed and ligature all in place, then you press your bottom lip flat on reed and bite down with top teeth. Keep lip muscles clenched) Position your tongue inside your mouth so it is in a point (not flat) and tap your reed with your tongue to the rhythm.

What always helped me was to say "too". Also keep a continuous flow of air, but stop it by pressing your top hard against reed.

I hope this helped! :)

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Both the oboe and the French horn are both particularly difficult instruments. The fact that an oboist has to make his own reeds doesn't make it harder, but unless he's a good reed maker, he'll be unreliable. Oboe playing depends so much on the quality of the reed that you have to be very good at making them. I can't tell you much about the French horn but I think it's quite hard to place the right note before playing it, the oboe doesn't have this problem.

The Chalumeaux. It was very popular shortly after its invention in the late 17th century, as it sounded like nothing else availiable at the time. Though the name now belongs to the bass register of the clarinet family, there are plenty of companies online that make very good replicas of the original instrument.

I have 424N B336767L I suspect 424 # is low tunning instead 440 but I could be wrong is probably similar to yours very old I paid 20.00 before repading.

Orchestras are arranged according to the wishes and occasionally whims of the conductor and/or music director. However, some things about the orchestra's seating arrangement are strikingly common to all layouts.

The woodwinds, as a group, generally are placed in straight or slightly curved rows at the front of the non-string sections, centered. Most of the time, the flutes are to the left of the conductor, the oboes to the right. Generally, the clarinets are behind the flutes and the bassoons are behind the oboes, although some orchestras place the bassoons further to the right of the oboes.

The french horns (which are considered part of the woodwinds family despite being clearly brass family!) are generally placed to the conductor's right of the clarinets, with or without the bassoons in the second row.

Additions (like the English Horn, Baritone Oboe, Contrabassoon, Bass clarinet, etc) would be put with their associated group. Generally, principals sit to the conductor's left, additions to his right.

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Well the oboe is very light. I'm not exactly sure, but you never seem to get tired of holding it because of its light weight.

There are hundreds of different musical instruments around the world. Flutes and drums are some of the oldest. Stringed instruments such as the guitar, lute, dulcimer, and piano are found in many cultures as well.

Yes, for the most part. It depends on your teacher. Sight reading is the hardest part I think.

There are flutes, piccolos, clarinets, oboes, bass clarinets, bassoons, and all saxophones. Most school bands only have alto and tenor saxophones, maybe a bari-sax, and rarely a soprano saxophone.

The saxophone is a woodwind instrument

Though it looks like brass, people always mistake it for brass instrument, but it is a woodwind. It does not have valves like the brass instruments, but has reed and finger holes covered by small pads. Some like to call it brasswind.

No, the bassoon's fingerings are not the same as the fingering of oboes.

There was a time, back when oboes were first invented and bassoons were just changing over from the single-piece dulcian to the four-piece basson/bassoon that the fingering of the two instruments was quite similar, and had much in common with the recorder and flute as well.

With the split between the German and french schools of double reed instruments, though, it's hard to say that all bassoon fingerings are alike, or that all oboe fingerings are alike!

The major difference in fingering between all oboes and all bassoons comes from the fact that the bassoon's bore is folded. This means that two lengths of the bore, the part that makes high notes and the part that makes low notes, run parallel to each other. As a result, keys that affect low notes appear near keys which affect high notes, and fingers serve multiple duties.

Because of the size of the bassoon, it is generally supported from the lower end by a belt-like strap which the player sits upon. The oboe, though, is smaller, and is generally supported by the right thumb of the player. The immobilized thumb of the oboist and the free right thumb of the bassoonist lead to further differences between the instruments. The oboist has multiple keys which are operated by the little fingers and a key and a hole with a ring (the ring acts like another key) under the left thumb. The bassoonist, though, has two keys under the left little finger, as many as four under the right little finger, between 3 and 5 under the right thumb, and anywhere between 8 and 12 keys to operate with the left thumb!

If you were to consider the basic octave, though, there is a strong similarity between all of these instruments: the three fingers of the left hand (minus the little finger), the four of the right hand, and the left thumb are employed in playing the basic octave and most of the next octave. However, in all varieties of oboe and bassoon, accidental keys, whisper/voice keys (which help to sound upper octaves) and lower-range extension keys differ greatly.

I play the oboe and tried the bassoon for a few weeks. I found that the fingerings are the more or less the same but at a fifth difference, so an F on the oboe is a Bb on the bassoon.

the modern oboe was invented in the 1650's.

No. There is not a viola.

d flat is the same as c sharp. so just the octive key

To play the bassoon you must be trained by a teacher, but, although it helps to have relatively large hands, you can play the instrument just as well with very small hands if you are trained well enough.