Created by: abbeygrech
Number of Blossarys: 7
English (EN)Name of a family of wind instruments having a reed resembling a clarinet's - and therefore classified among the woodwind (not 'brass') despite a metal body.
Type of woodwind instrument, without reed, much used in 16th-18th centuries but ousted by the more powerfully toned 'ordinary' flute.
The pipe is mainly described as a hollow cylinder or cone in which air vibrates, e.g. in an organ or a blown wind-instrument.
Woodwind instrument blown through a double reed and having a compass from the B flat below middle C upwards for more than two and a half octaves.
Plucked stringed instrument of Italian origin, now usually of eight strings tuned in pairs (to the same four notes as a violin) and played with plectrum.
General name for a type of plucked stringed instrument in which the strings are fixed to a cross-bar between two arms.
Cauldron-shaped drum originally from the Orient, and originally smaller and more delicate-sounding than now; in modern form, tuned to a definite pitch, normally by handles on the rim.
By: abbeygrech