Acoustic Musical Instruments » Concertinas http://www.acousticmusicalinstruments.com Piano, Guitar, Bass, Strings, Songs, Chords, and Harmony Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:47:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Wind Instruments Guide 101 pt 1 http://www.acousticmusicalinstruments.com/wind-instruments-guide-101-pt-1/ http://www.acousticmusicalinstruments.com/wind-instruments-guide-101-pt-1/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:07:06 +0000 keira http://www.acousticmusicalinstruments.com/?p=781 accordionsWind instruments are actually known more technically as being aero phones. Wind instruments are capable of producing a sound when the column of air within them is set into motion or vibration by way of either a reed or the lips of the player. The tuning of these instruments is controlled by way of the length of the pipe. Wind instruments are found from all over the world, and they include whistles, bagpipes, flutes, didgeridoo, harmoniums and many other instruments as well. Here is a guide to some of the more common and more interesting wind instruments.

Accordions and Concertinas

Accordions are musical instruments that are capable of producing sound when air is forced through the bellows of the instrument. Accordions are also commonly referred to as squeezeboxes. Accordions make use of buttons and keys in order to produce different specific notes. There are also piano accordions that have keyboards which resemble small pianos. The concertina is a similar but unique musical instrument capable of producing similar sounds, but each button only produces a single note rather than several.

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Bagpipes

Bagpipes are another instrument that is classified as being an aerophone. The bagpipes are reed instruments making use of an air reservoir. This air reservoir allows for an uninterrupted air stream to be directed through the reeds of the instrument. These reservoir aerophones are neither limited to Scotland nor Ireland, as their antiquity is actually capable of being traced all throughout North Africa, Asia and Europe.

There are a number of different types of bagpipes that fall into this category of instruments including the medieval bagpipes, Mediterranean bagpipes, traditional bagpipes, chalice bagpipes and the chanter, which is a related item.

The tradition behind making musical instruments such as these is one that is handed down from one generation to the next, and this results in the high-quality production of a number of different specific types of instruments all throughout the world. Bagpipes are often made out of rosewood and metal, making them sturdy and tolerant to changes in the weather and humidity.

Bloul

The Bloul is also regarded as the Armenian Flute like the Duduk, and it is an instrument of unwavering Armenian origin. This instrument was developed by Armenian and Kurdish shepherds in Western Armenia. The player will hold the bloul out at an angle while they blow into half of the mouthpiece, and the result is a sound that is haunting and wind like in nature. This is not a very common instrument in the United States, and you may not find it in a typical orchestra, but it is a unique worldly instrument all the same and is capable of producing some truly melodic sounds.

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Online Stores ]]> http://www.acousticmusicalinstruments.com/wind-instruments-guide-101-pt-1/feed/ 0 Brief History of Concertinas http://www.acousticmusicalinstruments.com/brief-history-of-concertinas/ http://www.acousticmusicalinstruments.com/brief-history-of-concertinas/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:15:51 +0000 keira http://www.acousticmusicalinstruments.com/?p=153 A concertina is a free reed acoustic musical instrument, falling in the same family as the accordion and the harmonica. The concertina musical instrument has buttons and bellows much in the same was as an accordion does, however the buttons typically exist on both ends rather than just on a single side. When pressed, these buttons travel in the same direction as the bellows do, which is what separates a concertina instrument from the capabilities of an accordion, because accordion buttons only travel perpendicularly to the bellows. Each button in the concertina only produces a single note, while accordions tend to produce chords with each button rather than a single note.

The concertina was initially developed in Germany and England, possibly independently although the truth is not known for sure. The English version of the concertina was invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1829, and then he filed a patent in 1844 for an improved version of the same instrument. The German version of the concertina was announced by Carl Friedrich Uhlig in 1834, and it is unknown whether his design was drawn from Wheatstone's concept or developed independently.

The term "concertina" actually refers to an entire family of different hand held, free reed instruments that are bellows driven and that are constructed according to a variety of different systems. These systems are unique in many different ways, including the notes available and the ranges that are available, the specific positioning of the keys or buttons, the sonoricity of the notes provided by the keys, the size and the shape of the instrument, the technique required to hold the instrument, the types of reeds used to play the instrument, the ability to produce sound in one or both bellows directions and the mechanical action required to open and close the reed chamber valves. The keys of bisonoric instruments produce completely different notes on the push or on the draw, but the keys of the unisonoric instruments produce the same note both on the push and the draw. Single action instruments produce sound only when the bellows are moving in one direction, which is common on bass instruments, while double action instruments produce sound in both directions of the bellows.

Because the concertina saw development both in Germany and in England during the same period of time, the different systems can be broadly divided depending on the type of concertina that is being played. A player can be truly proficient in one of the systems mentioned above, and then find an instrument using a different system to be quite unfamiliar to them because the systems were developed so far apart from one another. There are a number of different styles and types of concertinas because the concertina is an evolving instrument, even today. The concertina is an instrument that is both widespread and venerable in nature.

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