A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound as air flows past a vibrating reed in a frame. Air pressure is typically generated by...
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Reed aerophones is one of the categories of musical instruments found in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification. In order to...
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the wind of a bellows). These may be lips, a mechanical reed, or a sharp edge. Also, an aerophone may be excited by percussive acts, such as the slapping...
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Accordion (section Reed ranks and switches)
musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame). The essential characteristic...
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Concerto (section Free reed aerophone)
Weimar concerto transcriptions 20th century: Serry's Concerto In C Major For Free Bass Accordion Baroque era: Bach's concerto for two harpsichords, BWV 1061...
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Mouth organ (category Free reed aerophones)
A mouth organ is any free reed aerophone with one or more air chambers fitted with a free reed. Though it spans many traditions, it is played universally...
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A melodeon or diatonic button accordion is a member of the free-reed aerophone family of musical instruments. It is a type of button accordion on which...
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Martinshorn (category Aerophones)
Martinshorn (also known as the Martin's trumpet and Schalmei) is a German free reed aerophone created in 1880 by Max Bernhardt Martin, who was also the main manufacturer...
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Melodica (category Free reed aerophones)
The melodica is a handheld free-reed instrument similar to a pump organ or harmonica. It features a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing...
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piano-style keys. Erich von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs categorize it as a free reed aerophone in their classification of instruments, published in 1914. The sound...
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Shō (instrument) (category Free reed aerophones)
The shō (笙) is a Japanese free reed musical instrument descended from the Chinese sheng, of the Tang dynasty era, which was introduced to Japan during...
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(1998). "The Classical Accordion, part 2". The Classical Free Reed, Inc. The Classical Free-Reed, Inc. Archived from the original on 2016-03-14. Retrieved...
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Woodwind instrument (section Reed instruments)
lips.[non-tertiary source needed] Free reed aerophone instruments are likewise unique since sound is produced by 'free reeds' – small metal tongues arranged...
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accordion (French: Harmonéon, accordeon de concert) is a French free reed aerophone, invented by Pierre Monichon in 1948, although he only patented the...
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A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It consists of expanding and contracting bellows, with...
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to a common plate (rather than in pairs); the plates are screwed to the reed block (rather than attached with wax). The melody-side keyboard is attached...
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Mélophone (category Free reed aerophones)
The mélophone is a portable free reed instrument first constructed by Parisian watchmaker Pierre Charles Leclerc in 1837. After persuasion from Leclerc...
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musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows-driven free reed aerophones such as the accordion and the concertina. The term is so applied...
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commonly called garmoshka, is a kind of Russian button accordion, a free-reed wind instrument. A garmon has two rows of buttons on the right side, which...
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accordion. Unlike the piano accordion, but in similar fashion to diatonic free-reed instruments such as the melodeon, Anglo concertina, or harmonica, a given...
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Pump organ (redirect from Reed organ)
The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organ using free-reeds that generates sound as air flows past the free-reeds, the vibrating pieces of thin metal...
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Pitch pipe (category Free reed aerophones)
device used as a pitch reference. The most common type is a circular free reed aerophone. These are discs with the holes for the reeds around the perimeter...
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acoustic mechanism is more that of an organ than a piano, as they are both aerophones, but the term "piano accordion"—coined by Guido Deiro in 1910—has remained...
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commonly made of brass. The harmonica is a free reed aerophone, also often made from brass. In organ pipes of the reed family, brass strips (called tongues)...
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Indian harmonium (category Sets of free reeds)
hand-pumped reed organ which is very popular in the Indian subcontinent. The sound resembles an accordion or other bellows driven free-reed aerophones. Reed-organs...
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Chemnitzer concertina is a musical instrument of the hand-held bellows-driven free-reed category, sometimes called squeezeboxes. The Chemnitzer concertina is...
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and tenor and baritone saxophones). Reed aerophones Free-reed instrument Mouthpiece (woodwind) Uilleann pipes reed-making workshops in Ireland. "Oboe Cane...
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to a lower pitch on harmonica (a free-reed aerophone) by altering the vocal tract to shift the resonance of the reed. On brass instruments such as the...
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instruments such as the guitar, lute or vihuela, as well as many free reed aerophones such as the harmonica. Tablature was common during the Renaissance...
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Party horn (category Free reed aerophones)
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