Here is a guide to some of the more common and more interesting wind instruments. Some of these instruments are common place in the United States and others have a decidedly more worldly origin.

Fanfare Trumpet

The fanfare trumpet is an instrument that is not like your traditional style of trumpet. This style of trumpet contains neither valves nor slides. The fanfare trumpet, on the other hand, does have a mouthpiece that is removable which makes it pretty unique in comparison to many other types of wind instruments.

Bansuri Flute

The Bansuri flute is a type of transverse flute that comes from India. It comes from the words bans and suri, where bans means bamboo. The Bansuri flute is regarded as one of the oldest musical instruments in existence. The Bansuri flute is made from a single piece of bamboo that has seven holes. All of the half notes, microtones and accidentals are created through the use of a truly unique system for fingering.

The finger holes in this instrument absolutely have to be covered precisely either fully or half by the fingers, but by the phalanxes rather than the fingertips. This method of fingering is also capable of simplifying the playing of Bansuri flutes that are longer. To the western ear, the Bansuri flute can sometimes sound out of tune, but this is because the tuning is not exact to western standards.

Bombard Flute

The bombard flute is a small and double reed flute instrument that is quite similar in nature to the soprano shawm in terms of range, though in length it is significantly shorter.

Cane Flute

The cane flute is made out of a single straight bamboo pipe. The category of cane flutes often contains a number of different flutes including Ney flutes, cane flutes, Kawla flutes, Shakuhachi flutes and any other bamboo flutes that are similar in size and scale.

Irish Flute

The Irish flute is a type of wooden flute that is used in order to play traditional types of Irish music. The Irish flute is made specifically to play traditional music from Ireland. Modern Irish flutes very rarely have any keys, if any keys at all, and this is a big difference in comparison to the traditional flutes which had between 5 and 10 keys in conjunction with a total of six standard open holes.

Medieval Pipe Flute

This flute is quite similar in nature to instruments like the cornamuse and the rauschpfeif. This pipe possesses a straight bore and its bell possesses an open end. This pipe sounds much softer than its cousins. The primary art in playing an instrument like this comes from being able to maintain a strong pressure of breathing so that you can keep the instrument's reed vibrating while keeping the instrument in proper tune.

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Originally posted 2009-09-22 03:31:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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