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Wind instruments

oboe

Musical equipment; Wind instruments

Woodwind instrument blown through a double reed and having a compass from the B flat below middle C upwards for more than two and a half octaves.

pipe

Musical equipment; Wind instruments

The pipe is mainly described as a hollow cylinder or cone in which air vibrates, e.g. in an organ or a blown wind-instrument.

recorder

Musical equipment; Wind instruments

Type of woodwind instrument, without reed, much used in 16th-18th centuries but ousted by the more powerfully toned 'ordinary' flute.

saxophone

Musical equipment; Wind instruments

Name of a family of wind instruments having a reed resembling a clarinet's - and therefore classified among the woodwind (not 'brass') despite a metal body.

whistle

Musical equipment; Wind instruments

The same as a recorder or flageolet—a flute blown from one end like a whistle; a small wind instrument for making whistling sounds by means of the breath.

english horn

Musical equipment; Wind instruments

Woodwind instrument of oboe type, but standing a fifth lower than the oboe, and written as a transposing instrument a fifth higher than sounding.

fife

Musical equipment; Wind instruments

Term historically meaning a kind if high-pitched wooden flute, usually without keys; but today's military 'drum and fife' band includes low-pitched flutes as well as high ones.