MUSC 1250 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Contrabass Clarinet, Alto Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
30 Aug 2016
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Flute family piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass flute. Oboe family oboe, oboe d"amore, english horn, heckelphone, bassoon, contrabassoon. Clarinet family c, d, eb, bb, and a clarinets, alto clarinet (eb), bass clarinet (bb or sometimes. Eb), contrabass clarinet (bb or eb), basset horn (f) Saxophone family sopranino (usually eb, transposed up minor 3rd), soprano (bb), alto (eb), tenor (bb), baritone (eb), and bass saxophone (bb). Embouchure the method of blowing into the instrument to set the air column in motion either directly (flutes) or by the reed mechanism or mouthpiece (all other woodwinds). Non-reed woodwinds all flutes and recorders. Cylindrical tubes (straight pipe) flutes and clarinets. Conical tubes (pipe larger at one end than other) oboes, english horns, bassoons, saxophones. Overblowing woodwind equivalent of touching a node on a string at the halfway mark; producing the first harmonic. Blow with more force: all conical pipe instruments and flutes overblow the octave, all clarinets overblow the 12th.
