Woodwind Instruments and Their History

3rd harmonic air-column alto antinode bagpipe bass clarinet bass flute bass oboe basset horn bassoon Bb clarinet bell Boehm flute Boehm-system Boosey Boosey & Hawkes brass breath cane Chapter closed compass conical Conservatoire consort contrabass contrabassoon cor anglais cornett crook cross-fingerings crumhorn cylindrical bore double reed drone Eb key embouchure England F key finger-holes flageolet French G# key gives gouging Heckel heckelphone hole inches instru joint keywork left thumb lips little finger low register lower makers ments metal military bands millimetres modern mouth-hole mouthpiece normally oboe d'amore oboist octave keys orchestra piccolo pitch Plate played players recorder reed instruments reed-making ring Rudall Carte saxophone scraping sharp-pitch shawm side key simple-system single reed sixteenth century slur solo sound staple tabor tenor thumb-hole thumb-plate tone tongue treble trill key tube tune upper register vent vibration vibrato wind instruments wooden woodwind instruments