Questions tagged [woodwinds]
For questions about woodwind instruments in general. For questions about specific instruments use the relevant tags: flute, clarinet, recorder etc.
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An instrument that sounds like flute but a bit lower
My music editor shows me that flute can't go so low (red color means this note is impossible on the flute):
I wonder which instrument I should use in this case to approximate the flute timbre as much ...
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Understanding transposing instruments
I know just enough about music to be frustrated about how little I know. I was taught to read music and play guitar when I was five or six and I only had time to take one music appreciation class in ...
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What is the air path in a rackett?
There's plenty of videos and online descriptions of these, but: where does the air come out?
As an example,
shows racketts with the reed in the centre of the top, but ...
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Help identifying this wind instrument [closed]
I was listening a traditional song "Oy u gayu pry Dunaju" (Oh, in the grove by the Danube) performed by a ukrainian band "Hurt Express" and I have noticed right from the beginning ...
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Wind quintet or sextet minus one
This question arose from a situation where our group of amateur but experienced players was to meet to play through Janáček's Mládí and the Lefebvre Suite for Winds. The Janáček is scored for
Flute/...
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Will a soak in mouthwash hurt mouthpieces?
I’m teaching wind instruments to grade 7 and 8’s after a decade of teaching primary music. Since covid, my school board mandates a specific cleaning solution must be used for sanitation. Brass and ...
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Alternate tempo indications in Janáček's Mládí
What is the reason for the alternate tempo markings in Janáček's Mládí here and elsewhere? Is one of them aimed at players who are no longer in the first flush of 'Youth' maybe?
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What woodwind instruments have easier embouchure?
I've been stuggling playing the trumpet because of the lip position. Do woodwind instruments have less pressure on the lips or have easier embouchure compared to brass?
If you had to rank the ...
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What woodwind & brass instruments are most air efficient?
So I am trying to compose this woodwind quintet and other pieces relating to woodwind and brass instruments, and I need to figure out whether I can let some instruments breathe or keep playing. After ...
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How well can woodwind instruments leap large intervals?
I've composed this passage:
I'm concerned about it due to the large leaps in three of the four instruments. I have tried to find some information online about leaps and woodwind instruments, but ...
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Tune of wind instruments and the strength of blow
First of all I want to inform you that I wasn't that close with music in my life so I might not know the obvious and mix up terminology. I am gathering information for an engineering project involving ...
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What's this flat squiggly line below the notes at the end of this clarinet jazz solo?
This is from cuphead.
Youtube link here:
It kind of sounds like vibrato.
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Diatonic harmonica: draw bends from Hole 1 to Hole 6 - principles
Why the diatonic harmonica have different draw bends available? What is the principle behind this setup?
Like:
Hole 1 draw bend has only 1 semitone down.
Hole 2 draw bend has 2 choices of semitones ...
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Diatonic harmonica: How to play the draw bend with the three semitones down (effectively)?
For the diatonic harmonica, in the 3rd draw position B, how to play the draw bend with the three semitones down (marked in blue rectangle) B, Bb, A?
I could play a semitones down, most easily in the ...
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Which version of notating dynamics for woodwinds is more clear?
As in title - which is better (if any)? Specifically for flutes and oboes.
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