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Reed (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For a single reed, a complex shape must be cut from a cane 'blank': flat on the underside; thin and flat at the tip; blended to match the natural curve of the outer surface of the cane at the 'heel' of the reed. The reeds of woodwind musical instruments are usually made of Arundo donax; tuned reeds are made of metal or plastic. Double reeds sound very different to single reeds. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reed_instrument   (582 words)

REED - LoveToKnow Article on REED The single reed is common to all the members of the clarinet family, consisting, besides the clarinet, of the basset-horn or tenor, and of the bass and pedal clarinets; of the batyphone, an early bass clarinet, and of the saxophone, a metal oboe with a beating reed instead of a double reed. Directly-blown reed instruments comprise the section of modern wind instruments known as the wood wind, with the exception of flute and piccolo; they are classified according to the kind of reedvibrator of which the mouthpiece is composed. Either a single or a double reed adapted to a cylindrical pipe converts it for all acoustic purposes into a closed pipe, in which the whole wavelength is twice the length of the tube, a node forming at the mouthpiece end. www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RE/REED.htm   (582 words)

Single reed instrument A woodwind instrument employing a single piece of reed as its vibrating source. Single reed instruments include the clarinet family and the saxophone family. The reed beats against the mouthpiece of the instrument to produce the sound. www.music.vt.edu /MUSICDICTIONARY/texts/Singlereedinstrument.html   (37 words)

WESTERN FREE REED INSTRUMENTS During the 19th and early 20th centuries, a variety of instruments were developed that had a mouthpiece with a single blow hole and keys or buttons to select the free reeds to be sounded by the player's breath. Whichever it was, the new reed was quickly adopted by organ builders in the late 1700s and inspired a whole range of novel instruments in the 1800s. Uncovering fingerholes allowed selected reeds to sound, much in the manner of the suifukin, an instrument used for music education in early 20th century Japan. www.patmissin.com /history/western.html   (2313 words)

MSN Encarta - Reed Instrument Reed Instrument, any of a class of wind instruments employing a single or double flexible reed, made of cane, metal, or plastic, which vibrates under... Become a subscriber today and gain access to: encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_762506865/Reed_Instrument.html   (79 words)

Reed single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is 5: a musical instrument that sounds by means of a reed [syn: Reed pipe (Mus.), a pipe of an organ furnished with a reed. dictionary-x.com /Reed.html   (606 words)

Electric Blues Club - Links to Single and Double Reed Resources and sites Reed Instruments - Most of our research on the reed instruments is on how the vocal tract of the player interacts with the reed and with the bore of the instrument. Reed instruments in Romania - Cimpoi - the Romanian bagpipe. Nay is the generic Arabic name for simple open-ended reed instruments which usually have 6 holes in the front for the fingers to play and 1 hole underneath... www.electricbluesclub.co.uk /reedlinks.html   (581 words)

reed instrument a wind instrument with a single or double reed, as a saxophone or an oboe. www.infoplease.com /ipd/A0620203.html   (32 words)

MHN Instrument Encyclopedia Its mouthpiece resembles a beak, or peaked edge; attached is a single cane reed (technically, this is called a "beating reed" rather than "free reed"). Clarinets were first introduced in Europe as folk instruments, but by the late 1600s, they were manufactured by such renowned instrument builders as Joseph Denner of Nurnberg. This versatile instrument is capable of performing a wide range of musical styles. www.si.umich.edu /chico/instrument/pages/clrnt_gnrl.html   (464 words)

The acoustics of the Asian free red mouth organs In the single note per pipe instruments, a finger hole is drilled at a point that destroys the pipe resonance and prevents the reed from sounding unless the hole is closed. The free reeds coupled to pipe resonators in the instruments under consideration seem to behave as "opening" or "outward striking" reeds as discussed by Fletcher [6], with the sounding frequency of the reed-pipe combination is above the natural frequencies of both the reed and the pipe. Unlike the free reeds found in Western instruments such as the reed organ, accordion, and harmonica, the reeds of the Asian free reed mouth organs are not only coupled to pipe resonators, but are approximately symmetric, so that the same reed can operate on both vacuum and pressure (inhaling and exhaling). www.public.coe.edu /~jcotting/ISMAjpc1-1.htm   (464 words)

WESTERN FREE REED INSTRUMENTS During the 19th and early 20th centuries, a variety of instruments were developed that had a mouthpiece with a single blow hole and keys or buttons to select the free reeds to be sounded by the player's breath. A very common use of mouth blown free reed, still popular today, is as pitch pipes to sound a given notes as a pitch reference for a choir, or to which to tune another instrument. Whichever it was, the new reed was quickly adopted by organ builders in the late 1700s and inspired a whole range of novel instruments in the 1800s. www.patmissin.com /history/western.html   (464 words)

The Asian Free Reed Instruments of this type are based on the principle of a free vibrating reed, unlike the single beating reed of the clarinet or saxophone, and likewise unlike the double reed instruments like the Western oboe, or the Indian shahnai and Chinese sona. The principle of the free reed appears to have had its inception in Asia and after spreading there was subsequently introduced into with West where it developed into such instruments as the harmonica, the accordion, the harmonium and the free reed organ. The klui of Thailand is an interesting and unique example of a free reed functioning as the sound generator for a flute. aris.ss.uci.edu /rgarfias/courses/asian/freereed.html   (464 words)

Electric Blues Club - Links to Single and Double Reed Resources and sites Reed Instruments - Most of our research on the reed instruments is on how the vocal tract of the player interacts with the reed and with the bore of the instrument. Reed instruments in Romania- Cimpoi - the Romanian bagpipe. Nay is the generic Arabic name for simple open-ended reed instruments which usually have 6 holes in the front for the fingers to play and 1 hole underneath... www.electricbluesclub.co.uk /reedlinks.html   (464 words)

Allan Atlas--Free-Reed Renaissance Chapters deal with holding the instrument (with illustrations), manipulating the bellows (the most extensive discussion in print), single-note technique, and playing chords and contrapuntal textures. The CSFRI, part of the Doctoral Program in Music at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, is a resource for the scholarly study of all free-reed instruments (sheng, harmonica, accordion, etc.) and contains much of interest to concertinists. It is very difficult for all instruments, especially the Concertina, and to thoroughly master it with the correct fingering &c. www.maccann-duet.com /atlas   (464 words)

Woodwind instrument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Single-reed instruments use a reed, which is a thinly sliced piece of cane or plastic that is held against the aperture of the mouthpiece with a ligature. Single reed instruments include the clarinet and saxophone families of instruments. A woodwind instrument is a wind instrument in which sound is produced by blowing through a mouthpiece against an edge or by a vibrating reed, and in which the pitch is varied by opening or closing holes in the body of the instrument. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woodwind   (399 words)

Saxophone, Woodwind Instrument A single reed is clamped to a mouthpiece at the top of the instrument and vibrates against the mouthpiece when air is blown between the reed and the mouthpiece. This double reed fits into a tube at the top of the instrument and vibrates when air is forced between the two reeds. Although it is found only occasionally in the symphony orchestra, it is considered a member of the woodwind family because it has a single reed like the clarinet. www.dsokids.com /2001/dso.asp?PageID=257   (232 words)

English Horn, Woodwind Instrument A single reed is clamped to a mouthpiece at the top of the instrument and vibrates against the mouthpiece when air is blown between the reed and the mouthpiece. The English horn is another double-reed instrument in the woodwind family. This double reed fits into a tube at the top of the instrument and vibrates when air is forced between the two reeds. www.dsokids.com /2001/dso.asp?PageID=155   (216 words)

Woodwind Instruments Woodwinds include the single-reed driven instruments (clarinets and saxophones), double-reed instruments (oboes, bassoons, english-horns), and ``air-reed'' instruments (flutes, piccolos, and recorders). Wave motion of interest in the study of musical instruments within a conical bore is primarily spherical and along the principal axis of the tube. The cutoff frequency of the tonehole lattice is an important factor in determining the timbre of the instrument. ccrma.stanford.edu /CCRMA/Courses/150/woodwinds.html   (859 words)

HyperMusic -- Musical Instruments: Woodwinds Single reed instruments, like the clarinet and saxophone, use a single piece of cane, which vibrates, to produce a sound. The piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, bassoon, clarinet, and saxophone are all instruments of the woodwind family. The woodwind instrument with the shortest tubing and the highest sound is the piccolo. www.hypermusic.ca /inst/woodwind.html   (191 words)

Global Citizen 2000 - World Music Students will research non-Euro-centric woodwind instruments that use a single reed, double reed or whistle to create the original vibration (sound). Students present findings about of the woodwind instruments showing each instrument properly assembled, with correct finger placement and explain their determination of the pitch range of each instrument. When time is called, instruments are to be put back in cases and checked by the teacher. gc2000.rutgers.edu /GC2000/MODULES/WORLD_MUSIC/woodwinds.htm   (1127 words)

Sruthilaya - All kinds of musical instruments available: Music instruments,Chennai music,Veena,Music instruments exporters,Sruthilaya,Mridangam,Ganjira & Tambura. Chipla, Marocose, Thalams, Triangle, Hand Thal, Tamborine,Electronic Sruthi box, Manual Sruthi box, Single Double reed Harmonium,Electronic Triple reed with scale changes are also available. Sruthilaya - All kinds of musical instruments available: Music instruments,Chennai music,Veena,Music instruments exporters,Sruthilaya,Mridangam,Ganjira and Tambura. We also deal in all titles in Carnatic Music books, CassettesCDs of popular recording companies. www.webindia.com /sruthilaya   (224 words)

REED - MOUTHPIECE - Clarinet/Saxophone As a PRELUDE to a discussion of reeds and mouthpieces, it is essential to note the function of the REED-MOUTHPIECE-INSTRUMENT as an acoustical system. For reference, advantage is gained from a glance at string instruments: one can easily perceive that all the tone which radiates from a violin is caused by a single source - i.e. 1) the instrument is powered by wind which forces a reed to vibrate www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~museyadz/anches.html   (224 words)

Sruthilaya - All kinds of musical instruments available: Music instruments,Chennai music,Veena,Music instruments exporters,Sruthilaya,Mridangam,Ganjira & Tambura. Chipla, Marocose, Thalams, Triangle, Hand Thal, Tamborine,Electronic Sruthi box, Manual Sruthi box, Single Double reed Harmonium,Electronic Triple reed with scale changes are also available. Sruthilaya - All kinds of musical instruments available: Music instruments,Chennai music,Veena,Music instruments exporters,Sruthilaya,Mridangam,Ganjira and Tambura. We also deal in all titles in Carnatic Music books, CassettesCDs of popular recording companies. www.webindia.com /sruthilaya   (224 words)

MSN Encarta - Search Results - Reed (plant) Reed Instrument, any of a class of wind instruments employing a single or double flexible reed, made of cane, metal, or plastic, which vibrates under... Reed (plant), common name for two genera of tall, coarse grasses growing in wet places, the stems of which are used in various ways. Papyrus, also paper reed, common name for a plant of the sedge family. encarta.msn.com /Reed_(plant).html   (224 words)

reed - definition by dict.die.net In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube. Reed organ (Mus.), an organ in which the wind acts on a set of free reeds, as the harmonium, melodeon, concertina, etc. Reed pipe (Mus.), a pipe of an organ furnished with a reed. Free reed (Mus.), a reed whose edges do not overlap the wind passage, -- used in the harmonium, concertina, etc. It is distinguished from the beating or striking reed of the organ and clarinet. dict.die.net /reed   (511 words)

Woodwind Central - Clarinet Info (g) 3 obscure modern instruments related to the clarinet family by possessing a single reed are the Clarina, the Heckelclarina or Heckelclarinette, and the Holztrompete. The notes of the instrument's first octave are obtained in the normal way and the gap of a 5th before the overblowing begins has to be filled by additional side-holes which leave the tone weaker at this point and the fingering somewhat more awkward. German flautist and composer, remembered principally for the system whereby he replaced the clumsily-placed holes of his instrument by keys enabling the cutting of the holes in their proper acoustical positions, yet leaving them in easy control of the fingers. baroque-music.com /wc/info/clarinet.shtml   (470 words)

Single reed care and maintenance Key corks regulate the proper height of the keys and silence the metal-to-metal contact when the instrument is played. Wipe excess moisture from the instrument bore and wipe fingerprints from the exterior surface. Do not place the instrument on a music stand, chair, bed, or other surface from where it can fall or where it can be sat upon. www.dollarhide.com /windcareclar.htm   (637 words)

The Bb Clarinet Sound is produced in the instrument by means of a single reed, which vibrates as the player blows into the mouthpiece. The B-flat clarinet is an orchestral instrument going back to the time of Mozart and beyond. When the speaker key is opened, the same fingering (with of course, the addition of the speaker key) creates a much higher pitch with different harmonics. www.mtholyoke.edu /~mpeterso/classes/phys301/projects2001/adsmith   (503 words)

MSN Encarta - Search Results - reed bunting Reed Instrument, any of a class of wind instruments employing a single or double flexible reed, made of cane, metal, or plastic, which vibrates under... Reed (plant), common name for two genera of tall, coarse grasses growing in wet places, the stems of which are used in various ways. Bunting, common name for a number of members of a family of passerine birds. encarta.msn.com /reed%2bbunting.html   (127 words)

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