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Trumpet

Trumpets - History

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Brass instruments...

Trumpets - History

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Brass instruments...

Aulos Recorder, Soprano

Recorders - History

The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument in the group known as internal duct flutes flutes with a whistle mouthpiece. A recorder can be distinguished from other duct flutes by...

Recorders - History

The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument in the group known as internal duct flutes flutes with a whistle mouthpiece. A recorder can be distinguished from other duct flutes by...

Jaw Harp - History Lark in the Morning

Jaw Harp - History

The Jaw Harp consists of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce...

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Jaw Harp - History

The Jaw Harp consists of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce...

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 Guiraut d'Espanha (1240-1270) - Pipe and Tabor

Tabor Pipes - History

Pipe and tabor is a pair of instruments played by a single player, consisting of a three-hole pipe played with one hand, and a small drum played with the other....

Tabor Pipes - History

Pipe and tabor is a pair of instruments played by a single player, consisting of a three-hole pipe played with one hand, and a small drum played with the other....

Large Hunter's Horn

Horns - History

As the name indicates, people originally used to blow on the actual horns of animals before starting to emulate them in metal or other materials. This original usage survives in...

Horns - History

As the name indicates, people originally used to blow on the actual horns of animals before starting to emulate them in metal or other materials. This original usage survives in...

Clarinets - History Lark in the Morning

Clarinets - History

Around the turn of the 18th century, the chalumeau was modified by converting one of its keys into a register key to produce the first clarinet. This development is usually...

Clarinets - History

Around the turn of the 18th century, the chalumeau was modified by converting one of its keys into a register key to produce the first clarinet. This development is usually...