Re: Brass accompaniment was Re: Listen To Me Sing In Rokbeigalmki!

--- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:

> Okay, cool, thanks!
Sure!

> I was under the impression that it's the
> material the instrument is made
> out of that counts.
Not at all! What we generally count most
important is the means of sound production. In
the case of "brass" instruments, this is
essentially blowing a raspberry into a small
funnel.

> So what is it exactly that separates woodwinds
> from brass instruments?
Depends on what you mean by "woodwind"! Largely,
woodwinds are confined to reed instruments (apart
from organs and harmoniums) and flue pipes (also
apart from organs). Brasswinds are all those that
rely on a cup shaped mouthpiece and buzzing lips.
Trumpets, tubas, cornetts, ophicleides, serpents,
keyed bugles, didgeridus, etc. are all therefore
brass; oboes, clarinets, flutes, recorders,
hornpipes, crummhorns and bagpipes are all
woodwinds. What separates them best is the method
of sound production.

I suppose you could argue that an organ is a
woodwind (it's nothing more than a bunch of fancy
recorders and crummhorns set up in racks, really)
in the same way a piano is a percussive
instrument. But we call them both "keyboards" and
live with an imperfect system!

Padraic.


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