It is the lowest of the woodwind instruments. It is made out of maple wood (or plastic) and has a double reed. The bassoon is a very versatile instrument. It can play very low notes and still get ...

Marching bands are made up of a variety of instruments, some of which are uncommon in other musical ensembles. Thanks to their unique instrumentation and the talented musicians who play them ...

In their House of Sound, Greg Foot and Fran Scott explain how woodwind instruments work and how they make all sorts of different sounds. They find out that lots of woodwind instruments are not ...

From the guitarron and the requinto to the guiro and the tololoche, these are some of the instruments responsible for música ...

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of ...

The oboe is a double-reed instrument and member of the woodwind family. Oboes are usually made of wood ... Major differences between the two instruments include the division of the hautbois into three ...

The Earth is currently experiencing its sixth major extinction event. One million species globally are at risk of extinction in the next few decades, including 27 percent of the world’s mammals, 41 ...

The saxophonist’s latest is thrilling, restlessly inventive and completely satisfying, with textures, rhythms and tones in ...

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We explore the science of sound, music and musical instruments in this series of short films. Drawing inspiration from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and others, we discover that vibration is responsible ...