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	Free reed aerophone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument where sound is produced as air flows past a vibrating reed in a frame.
		In a free-reed instrument, it is the physical characteristics of the reed itself, such as mass, length, cross-sectional area and stiffness, that primarily determine the pitch (frequency) of the musical note produced.
		In the related woodwind instruments, a vibrating reed is used to set a column of air in vibration within the instrument.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Free-reed_instrument (406 words)

	AllRefer.com - reed instrument (Music: Theory, Forms, And Instruments) - Encyclopedia
		reed instrument, in music, an instrument whose sound-producing agent is a thin strip of cane, wood, plastic, or metal that vibrates as air is passed over it.
		Free reeds, such as those in the reed organ, accordion, concertina, and harmonica, do not overlap the air passage; they are generally of metal.
		Double-reed instruments, such as the shawm, oboe, bassoon, and English horn, have two reeds facing each other, between which air is forced into the instrument; thus the reeds are set vibrating.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/reedinst.html (247 words)

	Reed (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The reeds of woodwind musical instruments are usually made of Arundo donax; tuned reeds are made of metal or plastic.
		Reeds are made out of a grass (cane) or plastic.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reed_instrument (582 words)

	Reed instrument -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Reed instruments are (Any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds) musical instruments; they are members of the (Any wind instrument other than the brass instruments) woodwind family.
		The performer produces tones on these instruments by blowing (A mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of) air past a cane (Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites) reed, which vibrates.
		Tones are created on the (A slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece) oboe and (A double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family) bassoon with a double reed.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/re/reed_instrument.htm (472 words)

	Wind Instruments: Some Basics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Reed instruments use small, rectangular pieces of reed plants (the pieces are called simply reeds) in their mouthpieces.
		Most wind instruments are vaguely tube-shaped, because a long, thin column of air is a good place to set up a standing waves of air.
		Occasionally brass instruments are not made of metal at all; for example, the sousaphone, a tuba used in marching bands, is often made of (lighter-weight) fiberglass.
	cnx.rice.edu /content/m12364/latest (1737 words)

	Tuning and Maintenance of English-made Concertinas
		If a reed sounds on-pitch at moderate pressure levels, but shifts very sharp at high pressures, it is possible that it is hitting the edge of the slot in the reed pan.
		After adjusting a slow-starting or non-starting reed, re-check the pitch, as it is often modified by the angle of the reed.
		The reed is not tuned by shifting it in its mount.
	www.d-and-d.com /tinas/tuning.html (3147 words)

	Free Reed Instrument Care
		Concertina reeds are not waxed in, but with older concertinas the likely result of great heat is a crack in the wooden plate where the pads rest, which will cause leaks, and is hard to mend easily.
		The clearance between the reed and the frame which holds it is very small, and a speck of dust will often lodge between the reed and frame causing it to stop up altogether, or maybe make buzzing or rattling noises.
		Reed tuning and adjustment is a very skilled job, and unless you really know your stuff, we recommend leaving all other reed work to the professionals.
	www.hobgoblin-usa.com /info/freecare.htm (809 words)

	Reed pipes (from keyboard instrument) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The shallot of a beating reed pipe is roughly cylindrical in shape, with its lower end closed and the upper end open.
		The common, or water, reed (Phragmites australis) occurs along the margins of lakes, fens, marshes, and streams from the Arctic to the tropics.
		According to the standard method of instrument classification introduced in the early 20th century, all wind instruments (that is, all instruments in which air is the primary vibrating medium for the production of sound) are called aerophones.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-53780?tocId=53780 (877 words)

	WESTERN FREE REED INSTRUMENTS
		An instrument clearly resembling the Thai/Laotian khaen is depicted, although the description that goes along with it gives no indication that Mersenne knew that the instrument utilised an acoustic principle hitherto unknown in the West.
		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.
		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.
	www.patmissin.com /history/western.html (2313 words)

	Manny Fernandez's VL Programming Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Parent Reed parameters are an extension in the VA algorithm to improve the synthesis of lip reed (brass) sounds.
		This is because the oscillating edges of the lips that function as the 'reed' of brass instruments are influenced by the mass of the lips as a whole.
		The Child Reed is the equivalent of the vibrating reed of the mouthpiece.
	windsynth.org /iwsa_labs/patch_programming/prog_techniques/VL1_Guide (11544 words)

	The Classical Free-Reed, Inc. Taxonomy of Musical Instruments
		Organ reeds are referred to as beating reeds because the tongue is larger than the shallot opening and therefore beats against it.
		The instrument, named after Aeolus, the Greek god of wind, is made of a wooden sound box loosely strung with ten or twelve gut strings varying in thickness and elasticity, usually tuned in unison.
		This instrument is extremely hard to classify exactly, since, depending on the shape of the cavity created between the thumbs, the grass reed can be proved to be both beating and free, or neither.
	www.ksanti.net /free-reed/description/taxonomy.html (1825 words)

	Single reed instrument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A woodwind instrument employing a single piece of reed as its vibrating source.
		The reed beats against the mouthpiece of the instrument to produce the sound.
		Single reed instruments include the clarinet family and the saxophone family.
	www.music.vt.edu /MUSICDICTIONARY/texts/Singlereedinstrument.html (37 words)

	Electric Blues Club - Links to Single and Double Reed Resources and sites
		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...
		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.
	www.electricbluesclub.co.uk /reedlinks.html (581 words)

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		Evidence from the instruments in the C M Collection indicates that an initial series of 'Roman numeral' labelled concertinas was produced as early as 1829 or 1830, which differs substantially from the series of conventionally numbered instruments produced and sold from about 1836 onwards.
		From about 1845, the reed pans of all Wheatstone concertinas had a circular paper pan-label affixed to their inner face which has all of the note names and 'note frame' or reed bed sizes printed upon it to guide the outworkers as to which size of bed was to be used for each note.
		Steel 'vibrators', as reed tongues were called, were first introduced by Wheatstones at the request of concert virtuosi such as Blagrove and Regondi: such reeds kept their pitch well and produced much more volume, and were to become generally available as an option on all Wheatstone instruments from the early 1860s onwards.
	www.d-and-d.com /contributions/tina-history.html (11808 words)

	Instrument Jokes
		The organ is the instrument of worship for in its sounding we sense the Majesty of God and in its ending we know the Grace of God.
		It had been decided that during this performance, once the bass players had played their parts in the opening of the symphony, they were to quietly lay down their instruments and leave the stage, rather than sit on thier stools looking and feeling dumb for twenty minutes.
		What notes this instrument is called upon to play could, subject to a satisfactory demarcation conference with the Musician's Union, be shared out equitably amongst the other instruments.
	www.mit.edu:8001 /people/jcb/other-instrument-jokes.html (9107 words)

	Reed
		Meadow reed grass (Bot.), the Glyceria aquatica, a tall
		Reed organ (Mus.), an organ in which the wind acts on a set
		Reed pipe (Mus.), a pipe of an organ furnished with a reed.
	dictionary-x.com /Reed.html (606 words)

	The Wheatstone English Concertina
		European free-reed instruments, such as Uhlig's diatonic konzertina,the diatonic button accordions of Buschmann and Demian, and the French accordions-diatonique of the 1850s largely remained as relatively trivial 'folk' instruments (or, in the case of Debain's free-reed harmonium, evolved into the larger reed organs and American (or Cabinet) organs).
		From about 1845, the reed pans of allWheatstone concertinas had a circular paper pan-label affixedto their inner face which has all of the note names and 'noteframe' or reed bed sizes printed upon it to guide the outworkersas to which size of bed was to be used for each note.
		Steel 'vibrators',as reed tongues were called, were first introduced by Wheatstonesat the request of concert virtuosi such as Blagrove and Regondi:such reeds kept their pitch well and produced much more volume,and were to become generally available as an option on all Wheatstoneinstruments from the early 1860s onwards.
	www.hobgoblin.com /info/wayne.htm (11263 words)

	Sound Site: Activities: Reed Instrument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Design and construct your own wind instrument that uses a vibrating reed and makes sounds with four different pitches.
		Make a straw reed by cutting a wedge about 1 cm (1/2 inch) long at one end of a plastic drinking straw.
		To make a longer instrument, flare the end opposite the reed by inserting a pencil and stretching the plastic.
	www.smm.org /sound/nocss/activity/ssl7.htm (161 words)

	reed instrument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		, have two reeds facing each other, between which air is forced into the instrument; thus the reeds are set vibrating.
		PRS guitars: catalyst for change: twenty years ago, when Paul Reed Smith launched his guitar company, his goal was to build the best instruments humanly possible.
		As a clarification to the March 2004 article, "Surgical Instruments: From bones and stones to stainless steel and high technology", HPN would like to thank Anne Reed, vice president, co-owner of Mobile Instrument Service and Repair.(People and Opinions)(Correction Notice) (Healthcare Purchasing News)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0841386.html (291 words)

	reed instrument intro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When I lived in Bangladesh (in South Asia, next to India) I was intrigued as much by the musical instrument the snake charmers played as I was by the snakes.
		For illustrated instructions for making reed instrument from a straw click here or on the picture.
		For explanations, activities and cool links related to reed instruments click here or on the picture.
	www.sciencetoymaker.org /snake (180 words)

	make and play reed instrument
		The reeds might stick together where the cuts were made.
		Usually, there is too much space between the reeds, so air passes easily through the straw without vibrating the reeds.
		Because the reed instrument can be done with just scissors and straws, I take it along as a backup for other projects--just in case.
	www.sciencetoymaker.org /snake/assembl.html (780 words)

	MHN Instrument Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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)

	Ding Tac Ta - Vietnamese free reed instrument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Ding Tac Ta The ding tac ta is an instrument used by the Ede people of Vietnam for entertainment or love songs.
		The fibre reed is flush with the pipe and covered by a gourd wind chamber.
		There are only two or three fingerholes but the ends are open, and one end can be covered to lower the pitches of the fingerholes or to get extra pitches.
	www.asza.com /idingtac.shtml (91 words)

	Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments [Illustrated] -Free-reed instrument - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Free-reed instruments are musical instruments that produce sounds from a reed vibrating in a chamber, as opposed to "fixed reed" instruments, which use a vibrating reed "fixed" to (or vibrating against) some other part of the instrument.
		The oldest known free-reed instrument is the Chinese sheng, widely accepted as the musical ancestor of the harmonica and accordion.
		Other well-known free-reeds include the concertina, bandoneon, melodica, and reed organ.
	www.musicwalrus.com /List_of_Musical_Instruments/free_reed_instrument.htm (177 words)

	reed instrument on Encyclopedia.com
		As a clarification to the March 2004 article, "Surgical Instruments: From bones and stones to stainless steel and high technology", HPN would like to thank Anne Reed, vice president, co-owner of Mobile Instrument...
		Harcourt Assessment (San Antonio, TX), a unit of Reed Elsevier that provides educational assessment instruments and testing programs.(Ordinate Corporation)(Brief Article)
		New company with legendary brands, The Music Group combines the instrument making guild traditions of Europe with innovative marketing ad manufacturing methods in pursuit of global markets.(Company Profile)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/r1/reedinst.asp (602 words)

	Reed Instrument Co - Houston, TX, 77080-7318 - Citysearch
		Reed Instrument Co - Houston, TX, 77080-7318 - Citysearch
		Reed Instrument Co 1525 Blalock Rd Houston, TX 77080-7318
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	houston.citysearch.com /profile/9934096 (144 words)

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