In the last post in this series we were talking about different types of woodwind instruments. The following is the rest of the list of exposed double reed instruments.

- Hichiriki (Japan)
- Kèn bầu (Vietnam)
- Mizmar (Arabic nations)
- Nadaswaram
- Oboe
- Oboe da caccia
- Oboe d'amore
- Piccolo heckelphone
- Piccolo oboe
- Piri (Korea)
- Pommer (Europe)
- Rackett (Europe)
- Reed contrabass/Contrabass à anche
- Rhaita (North Africa)
- Rothphone
- Sarrusophone (but often played with single reed mouthpiece)
- Shawm (schalmei)
- Sopila (Croatia)
- Sorna (Persia)
- Suona (China)
- Surnay (Iran)
- Taepyeongso (Korea)
- Tárogató (Hungary; up to about the 18th century)
- Tromboon
- Trompeta china (Cuba)
- Zurla (Macedonia)
- Zurna

Capped Double Reed Instruments:

- Bagpipes (see Types of bagpipes)
- Cornamuse
- Crumhorn
- Hirtenschalmei
- Kortholt
- Rauschpfeife

The Flute produces sound any time that air is blown across an edge. There are two different sub families of flutes. The open flute family involves instruments where the player's lips form a stream of air going directly to the edge from the player's lips. Examples of this type of flute are end blown flutes and transverse flutes. Modern concert flutes are typically open flutes that are either crafted from a pure metal or a mix of metals like nickel, gold and silver. The closed flute family involves flute instruments where the instrument forms and directs the air stream to reach the edge. This family of flutes includes fipple based flutes including the recorder family and whistles.

Examples of side-blown open flutes include:

- Bansuri (India)
- Dizi (China)
- Flute
- Fife
- Piccolo
- Western concert flute
- Alto flute
- Bass flute
- Contra-alto flute
- Contrabass flute
- Double contrabass flute
- Hyperbass flute
- Irish flute
- Koudi (China)
- Nohkan (Japan)
- Ryuteki (Japan)
- Shinobue (Japan)

Examples of end-blown open flutes include:

- Kaval (Anatolian-Turkic)
- Ney (Anatolian-Turkic)
- Danso (Korea)
- Hocchiku (Japan)
- Hun (Korea)
- Palendag (Philippines)
- Panflute
- Quena (South America)
- Shakuhachi (Japan)
- Suling (Indonesia/Philippines)
- Tumpong (Philippines)
- Xiao (China)
- Xun (China)
- Khlui (Thailand)

Examples of internal duct or fipple based flutes include:
- Diple (or Dvojnice) (Croatia)
- Flageolet (France)
- Dilli Kaval (Turkey)
- Fujara (Slovakia)
- Gemshorn (Germany)
- Ocarina (China)
- Organ pipe The pipes of the church/chamber organ are actually fipple flutes.
- Recorder (Germany)
- Shvi (Armenia)
- Tin Whistle

Although there are some woodwind instruments that are more popular and well known, like the flute, the recorder, the whistle, the clarinet and the saxophone, there are actually woodwind instruments from all of the world that are capable of creating beautiful music and an entirely new and unique playing experience. With these lists of woodwind instruments that you can find and play from all over the world, hopefully you will have a new appreciation for woodwind acoustic music.

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Originally posted 2009-02-10 05:26:12. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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