Wind instrument technique

1. How is wind instrument played?
2. What are the three most common techniques on how do you play wind instruments?
3. What are the 5 wind instruments?
4. Which is wind instrument?

How is wind instrument played?

You play them by blowing air through the mouthpiece (that's the "wind" in "woodwind") and opening or closing the holes with your fingers to change the pitch. Metal caps called keys cover the holes of most woodwind instruments.

What are the three most common techniques on how do you play wind instruments?

There are three ways in which the woodwind family creates sound: by blowing air across the edge of or into the mouthpiece (flute or piccolo), by blowing air between a single reed and a fixed surface (clarinet and bass clarinet), or by blowing air between two reeds (oboe, English horn, bassoon, and contrabassoon).

What are the 5 wind instruments?

Types

• Brass instruments (horns, trumpets, trombones, euphoniums, and tubas)
• Woodwind instruments (recorders, flutes, oboes, clarinets, saxophones, and bassoons)

Which is wind instrument?

a musical instrument sounded by the breath or other air current, as the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, or flute.