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Author: Amber
Date: 2001-04-17 20:46
I want the history of the woodwind instrument! help!
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Author: Chris Ransom
Date: 2001-04-18 09:07
Started at the recorder, and evolved to the oboe, the most supreme of all wind instruments .
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Author: Bill
Date: 2001-04-18 13:15
This site has some info that might help.
http://www.capecod.net/aswltd/guideww.htm#folkww
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Author: Ellie
Date: 2001-04-23 02:19
umnmn, (oops) fine- but anyway, about the thread. i'm pretty sure that the flute was the first (mere coincidence that the flute is my primary instrument), however- it was a very primitive flute. They ahve found remains of flutes dating back thousands of years- but then all it was was a tube carved out of something- such as bone- with holes for the fingers. The player would either blow across the end, or through the embroshure hole (a recent development, compared to the rest of the history of the flute). Anyway, somehow (I am not clear on this one) soomebody figured out the whole reed thing, and started putting reeds onto instruments similar to the primitive flute. So the other woodwinds developed through experimentation- I'm guessing that the clarinet was the first of the reed instruments, then somebody put a double reed on for an oboe and somebody experimented with a curved body. After many altercations and stuff, the modern woodwind instruments emerged.
As for flute, extensive work was done on it. It was "modernized" by Boehm. I forgot the name of the book- but I once found a book about Boehm and his studies with flutes. Check it out if you know what i mean.
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Author: Eoin McAuley
Date: 2001-04-23 06:58
As Ellie has said, the flute was the first woodwind instrument. She is wrong about the clarinet being next. The double reed instruments are much older. The double reed shawm was developed somewhere in the middle or far east and came to Europe as the precursor to the oboe. So the oboe was in the orchestra right from the start. The clarinet was only invented in about 1700, probably as an attempt to improve the recorder and make it loud enough to compete with the flute and the oboe. The first clarinets were called chalumeaux and could only play about 12 notes. The addition of the speaker key allowed the range to be extended to nearly three octaves, and the modern clarinet was born.
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Author: Ellie
Date: 2001-04-23 22:51
Well, I was close. All i really knew for sure was the flute... but clarinet being next was at least a logical guess, I think.
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Author: Juliet
Date: 2001-04-24 02:29
The flute did come first, but only after the bottle. What they did to create the sound as similar to the flute was take a bottle and blow across the hole. From there, the flute was developed and on to other primitive instruments, then to the more recent models of those same instruments!
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Author: Chris Ransom
Date: 2001-04-24 08:36
I thought that they recently found fragments of what was a very early 'bone flute', a simply flute made from bone.. I thought this would have been far earlier than the bottle
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Author: stacy
Date: 2001-09-11 05:55
hey im doin a physics asighment on woodwinds how the work and what varibals change the sound of them if any body has any info or good web sites i can go to can you please help its really important
thanks
xoxo
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Author: Andrea
Date: 2001-10-04 00:27
There's a very interesting book you could read: "Woodwind instruments and their history" (published by Dover). It deals with the modern woodwind instruments in the first part, while in the second part it talks about the history of the instruments through the ages.
Have fun!
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Author: regina bell
Date: 2004-10-10 15:22
history of woodwind insturmer
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Author: regina bell
Date: 2004-10-11 04:15
Amber wrote:
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I want the history of the woodwind instrument! help! <br />
Amber wrote:
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I want the history of the woodwind instrument! help! <br />
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