How the wind instrument makes its sound
In the Hornbostel–Sachs system, which classifies instruments by how they produce sound, the wind instrument belongs to the wind instruments: a column of air enclosed in the instrument vibrates.
More broadly it is one of the aerophones (wind instruments), where sound comes from vibrating air.
Players shape its sound through technique and materials; the resonating body filters the raw vibration, boosting some harmonics and damping others.
From Wikipedia
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. The pitch of the vibration is determined by the length of the tube and by manual modifications of the effective length of the vibrating column of air. In the case of some wind instruments, sound is produced by blowing through a reed. Others require buzzing into a metal mouthpiece, while yet others require the player to blow into a hole at an edge, which splits the air column and creates the sound.
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Frequently asked questions
What does a wind instrument sound like?
As one of the wind instruments, its sound comes from the way a column of air enclosed in the instrument vibrates.
What type of instrument is the wind instrument?
It is classified as wind instruments (Hornbostel–Sachs 42).
Sources & credits
- Wikidata Q173453 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Wind instrument – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Image by Stefan Kühn at de.wikipedia – CC BY-SA 3.0