Aerophone, the Glossary
An aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes (which are respectively chordophones and membranophones), and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound (or idiophones).[1]
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120 relations: Accordion, Aerophone, Alto saxophone, Ancient history, Ardal Powell, Aztecs, Bagpipes, Bamboo flute, Bandoneon, Bansuri, Baritone horn, Bassoon, Boomwhacker, Brass instrument, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bullroarer, Burial, Calliope (music), Carnatic music, Central America, China, Clapper (musical instrument), Clarinet, Clarinet family, Common Era, Concertina, Copper, Cor anglais, Cornet, Culture of India, Curt Sachs, Didgeridoo, Dizi (instrument), Double reed, Duduk, Embouchure, Eunuch flute, Euphonium, Fipple, Flip-flops, Flute, Free reed aerophone, French horn, Germany, Glass, Globular Flute, Gudi (instrument), Harmonic series (music), Harmonica, Hinduism, ... Expand index (70 more) »
- Aerophones
Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German, from —"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame).
Aerophone
An aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes (which are respectively chordophones and membranophones), and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound (or idiophones). Aerophone and aerophone are aerophones.
Alto saxophone
The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments.
See Aerophone and Alto saxophone
Ancient history
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity.
See Aerophone and Ancient history
Ardal Powell
Ardal Powell (born 1958) is a musician and publisher.
See Aerophone and Ardal Powell
Aztecs
The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.
Bagpipes
Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.
Bamboo flute
The bamboo flute, especially the bone flute, is one of the oldest musical instruments known.
See Aerophone and Bamboo flute
Bandoneon
The bandoneon (bandoneón) or bandonion is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay.
Bansuri
A bansuri is an ancient side-blown bamboo flute originating from the Indian subcontinent.
Baritone horn
The baritone horn, sometimes called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family.
See Aerophone and Baritone horn
Bassoon
The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges.
Boomwhacker
A Boomwhacker is a percussion instrument in the plosive aerophone and idiophone family.
Brass instrument
A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.
See Aerophone and Brass instrument
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Upton, Long Island, a hamlet of the Town of Brookhaven.
See Aerophone and Brookhaven National Laboratory
Bullroarer
The bullroarer, rhombus, or turndun, is an ancient ritual musical instrument and a device historically used for communicating over great distances.
Burial
Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects.
Calliope (music)
A calliope (see below for pronunciation) is a North American musical instrument that produces sound by sending a gas, originally steam or, more recently, compressed air, through large whistles—originally locomotive whistles.
See Aerophone and Calliope (music)
Carnatic music
Carnatic music, known as or in the South Indian languages, is a system of music commonly associated with South India, including the modern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.
See Aerophone and Carnatic music
Central America
Central America is a subregion of North America.
See Aerophone and Central America
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Clapper (musical instrument)
A clapper is a basic form of percussion instrument.
See Aerophone and Clapper (musical instrument)
Clarinet
The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.
Clarinet family
The clarinet family is a woodwind instrument family of various sizes and types of clarinets, including the common soprano clarinet in B♭ and A, bass clarinet, and sopranino E♭ clarinet.
See Aerophone and Clarinet family
Common Era
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.
Concertina
A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica.
Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
Cor anglais
The cor anglais (or original; plural: cors anglais) Longman has /kɔːz/ for British and /kɔːrz/ for American -->, or English horn (in North American English), is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family.
Cornet
The cornet is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality.
Culture of India
Indian culture is the heritage of social norms and technologies that originated in or are associated with the ethno-linguistically diverse India, pertaining to the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and the Republic of India post-1947.
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Curt Sachs
Curt Sachs (29 June 1881 – 5 February 1959) was a German musicologist.
Didgeridoo
The didgeridoo (also spelt didjeridu, among other variants) is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing.
Dizi (instrument)
The dizi (pronounced), is a Chinese transverse flute.
See Aerophone and Dizi (instrument)
Double reed
A double reed is a type of reed used to produce sound in various wind instruments.
Duduk
The duduk (դուդուկ) or tsiranapogh (ծիրանափող, meaning "apricot-made wind instrument"), is a double reed woodwind instrument made of apricot wood originating from Armenia.
Embouchure
Embouchure or lipping is the use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument.
Eunuch flute
The eunuch flute, onion flute, or mirliton (flûte eunuque, flûte à l'oignon or mirliton; Zwiebelflöte) is a membranophone used during the 16th and 17th centuries.
See Aerophone and Eunuch flute
Euphonium
The euphonium is a medium-sized, 3 or 4-valve, often compensating, conical-bore, tenor-voiced brass instrument that derives its name from the Ancient Greek word εὔφωνος euphōnos, meaning "well-sounding" or "sweet-voiced" (εὖ eu means "well" or "good" and φωνή phōnē means "sound", hence "of good sound").
Fipple
The term fipple specifies a variety of end-blown flute that includes the flageolet, recorder, and tin whistle.
Flip-flops
Flip-flops are a type of light sandal-like shoe, typically worn as a form of casual footwear.
Flute
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.
Free reed aerophone
A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound as air flows past a vibrating reed in a frame.
See Aerophone and Free reed aerophone
French horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Glass
Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid.
Globular Flute
The Globular Flute (Macedonian: Топчеста Флејта; Latinic: Topchesta flejta) is a Neolithic ocarina-type flute found in 1989 at the Mramor archaeological site near Čaška village, 15 km north of Veles in North Macedonia.
See Aerophone and Globular Flute
Gudi (instrument)
The Jiahu gǔdí are the oldest known musical instruments from China, dating back to around 6000 BCE.
See Aerophone and Gudi (instrument)
Harmonic series (music)
A harmonic series (also overtone series) is the sequence of harmonics, musical tones, or pure tones whose frequency is an integer multiple of a fundamental frequency.
See Aerophone and Harmonic series (music)
Harmonica
The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock.
Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
History of India
Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago.
See Aerophone and History of India
Horn (anatomy)
A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals that consists of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone.
See Aerophone and Horn (anatomy)
Hornbostel–Sachs
Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the italic in 1914.
See Aerophone and Hornbostel–Sachs
Idiophone
An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity (electrophones).
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indian classical music
Indian Classical Music is the classical music of the Indian Subcontinent.
See Aerophone and Indian classical music
Ivory
Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally from elephants) and teeth of animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical structures of teeth and tusks.
Jiahu
Jiahu was the site of a Neolithic settlement based in the central plain of ancient China, near the Yellow River.
Krishna
Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism.
List of aerophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number
The Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification groups all instruments in which sound is produced through vibrating air.
See Aerophone and List of aerophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number
List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 421
Edge-blown aerophones is one of the categories of musical instruments found in the Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification.
See Aerophone and List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 421
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Martinshorn
The Martinshorn (also known as the Martin's trumpet and Schalmei) is a German free reed aerophone created in 1880 by Max Bernhardt Martin, who was also the main manufacturer of the instruments. Aerophone and Martinshorn are aerophones.
Maya peoples
The Maya are an ethnolinguistic group of indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica.
See Aerophone and Maya peoples
Melodica
The melodica is a handheld free-reed instrument similar to a pump organ or harmonica.
Membranophone
A membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane.
See Aerophone and Membranophone
A metal is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Musical instrument classification
In organology, the study of musical instruments, many methods of classifying instruments exist.
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Mute (music)
A mute is a device attached to a musical instrument which changes the instrument's tone quality (timbre) or lowers its volume.
See Aerophone and Mute (music)
Natural horn
The natural horn is a musical instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day (French) horn (differentiated by its lack of valves).
See Aerophone and Natural horn
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
New Delhi
New Delhi (ISO: Naī Dillī), is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT).
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
See Aerophone and New Hampshire
Oboe
The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.
Ocarina
The ocarina (otherwise known as a potato flute) is a wind musical instrument; it is a type of vessel flute.
Octave
In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the '''diapason''') is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice the frequency of vibration of the other.
Organ (music)
Carol Williams performing at the United States Military Academy West Point Cadet Chapel. In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones.
See Aerophone and Organ (music)
Paleolithic flute
During regular archaeological excavations, several flutes that date to the European Upper Paleolithic were discovered in caves in the Swabian Alb region of Germany.
See Aerophone and Paleolithic flute
Pan flute
A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth).
Piccolo
The piccolo (Italian for 'small') is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments.
Pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Aerophone and pipe organ are aerophones.
Pitch of brass instruments
flat. The pitch of a brass instrument corresponds to the lowest playable resonance frequency of the open instrument.
See Aerophone and Pitch of brass instruments
Pump organ
The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organs using free-reeds that generates sound as air flows past the free-reeds, the vibrating pieces of thin metal in a frame.
Pyrophone
A pyrophone, also known as a "fire/explosion organ" or "fire/explosion calliope" is a musical instrument in which notes are sounded by explosions, or similar forms of rapid combustion, rapid heating, or the like, such as burners in cylindrical glass tubes, creating light and sound. Aerophone and pyrophone are aerophones.
Recorder (musical instrument)
The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as internal duct flutes: flutes with a whistle mouthpiece, also known as fipple flutes.
See Aerophone and Recorder (musical instrument)
Red-crowned crane
The red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis), also called the Manchurian crane (the Chinese character '丹' means 'red', '頂/顶' means 'crown' and '鶴/鹤' means 'crane'), is a large East Asian crane among the rarest cranes in the world.
See Aerophone and Red-crowned crane
Reed (mouthpiece)
A reed (or lamella) is a thin strip of material that vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument.
See Aerophone and Reed (mouthpiece)
Resonator
A resonator is a device or system that exhibits resonance or resonant behavior.
Sarrusophone
The sarrusophones are a family of metal double reed conical bore woodwind instruments patented and first manufactured by French instrument maker Pierre-Louis Gautrot in 1856.
See Aerophone and Sarrusophone
Saxophone
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass.
Serration
Serration is a saw-like appearance or a row of sharp or tooth-like projections.
Silencer (firearms)
A silencer, also known as a sound suppressor, suppressor, or sound moderator, is a muzzle device that suppresses the blast created when a gun (firearm or airgun) is discharged, thereby reducing the acoustic intensity of the muzzle report (sound of a gunshot) and jump, by modulating the speed and pressure of the propellant gas released from the muzzle.
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Silver
Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.
Single-reed instrument
A single-reed instrument is a woodwind instrument that uses only one reed to produce sound.
See Aerophone and Single-reed instrument
Siren (alarm)
A siren is a loud noise-making device.
See Aerophone and Siren (alarm)
Siren disk
A siren disk is used in pneumatic sirens and has holes which are variously spaced apart.
Soprano saxophone
The soprano saxophone is a small, high-pitched member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented in the 1840s by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax.
See Aerophone and Soprano saxophone
Sousaphone
The sousaphone is a brass musical instrument in the tuba family.
Steam whistle
A steam whistle is a device used to produce sound in the form of a whistle using live steam, which creates, projects, and amplifies its sound by acting as a vibrating system.
See Aerophone and Steam whistle
String instrument
In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.
See Aerophone and String instrument
Swabian Jura
The Swabian Jura (Schwäbische Alb, more rarely Schwäbischer Jura), sometimes also named Swabian Alps in English, is a mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending from southwest to northeast and in width.
See Aerophone and Swabian Jura
Sympathetic resonance
Sympathetic resonance or sympathetic vibration is a harmonic phenomenon wherein a passive string or vibratory body responds to external vibrations to which it has a harmonic likeness.
See Aerophone and Sympathetic resonance
Tenor horn
The tenor horn (British English; alto horn in American English, Althorn in Germany; occasionally referred to as E horn) is a brass instrument in the saxhorn family and is usually pitched in E. It has a bore that is mostly conical, like the flugelhorn and euphonium, and normally uses a deep, cornet-like mouthpiece.
Tenor saxophone
The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.
See Aerophone and Tenor saxophone
Thongophone
A thongophone is a musical instrument classified as a percussion instrument and a plosive aerophone.
Tibia
The tibia (tibiae or tibias), also known as the shinbone or shankbone, is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates (the other being the fibula, behind and to the outside of the tibia); it connects the knee with the ankle.
Tin whistle
The tin whistle, also known as the penny whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument.
Transverse flute
A transverse flute or side-blown flute is a flute which is held horizontally when played.
See Aerophone and Transverse flute
Trombone
The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.
Trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
Tuba
The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.
Valve
A valve is a device or natural object that regulates, directs or controls the flow of a fluid (gases, liquids, fluidized solids, or slurries) by opening, closing, or partially obstructing various passageways.
Vertical flute
The vertical flute is either (1) a rim-blown (notched or unnotched) flute, (2) a tubular duct flute, with tapered bore or (3) a transversely blown flute, Giorgi flute, designed to be played in an upright position.
See Aerophone and Vertical flute
Vuvuzela
The vuvuzela is a horn, with an inexpensive injection-moulded plastic shell about long, which produces a loud monotone note, typically around B♭ 3 (the first B♭ below middle C).
Wind instrument
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator. Aerophone and wind instrument are aerophones.
See Aerophone and Wind instrument
Wood
Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
Woodwind instrument
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments.
See Aerophone and Woodwind instrument
See also
Aerophones
- Aerophone
- Apollonicon
- Blown bottle
- Bore (wind instruments)
- Brass instruments
- Cafehorn
- Cantaro
- Cegléd water jug
- Chrysler Air-Raid Siren
- Clarion (heraldry)
- Directional siren
- Hand flute
- Hornophone
- Hornpipes
- Jug (instrument)
- Klaxophone
- Lesiba
- List of Caribbean aerophones
- Martinshorn
- Näverlapp
- Pifilca
- Pipe organ
- Pyrophone
- Sirens
- Sordun
- Svirel
- Tibia (organ pipe)
- Tozacatl
- Whistles
- Wind instrument
- Woodwind instruments
- Yerbomatófono
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerophone
Also known as Aerophon, Aerophones, Displacement aerophone, Free aerophone, Interruptive aerophone, Non-free aerophone, Plosive aerophone.
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