Woodwind Family
What makes an instrument part of the Woodwind Family? • Woodwind instruments are instruments that make sound by blowing air over:
• open hole • internal hole • single reeds • double reed • free reeds Some woodwind instruments that have open and internal holes:
• Native American Flute • Ocarina • Panpipes
• Piccolo • Recorder • Xun Some woodwind instruments that have: single reeds free reeds
• Clarinet • Hornpipe • Accordion
• Octavin • Pibgorn • Harmonica
• Saxophone • Zhaleika • Khene
• Sho Some woodwind instruments that have double reeds: • Bagpipes • Bassoon • Contrabassoon
• Crumhorn • English Horn • Oboe
• Piri • Rhaita • Sarrusaphone
• Shawm • Taepyeongso • Tromboon
• Zurla Assignment: Watch: Mr. Gendreau’s woodwind lesson How a flute is made How bagpipes are made How a bassoon reed is made
*Find materials in your house that you (with your parent’s/guardian’s permission) can use to make a woodwind (i.e. water bottle, straw and cup of water, piece of paper, etc). *Find some other materials that you (with your parent’s/guardian’s permission) you can make a different woodwind instrument.
*What can you do to change the sound of each? *How does the length of the straw effect the sound it makes? *How does the amount of water effect the sound?
When you’re done, click here for your “ticket out the door”. Some optional videos for fun: • Young woman plays music from “Mario” on the Sho • Young boy on saxophone • 9 year old girl plays the flute