query: subclass_of sipsi
supports: Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and reed instruments (otherwise called reed pipes). What differentiates these instruments from other wind instruments is the way in which they produce their sound. Examples are a saxophone, a bassoon and a piccolo. The sipsi ( pronounced ( sipsi ) ) is a Turkish woodwind instrument . It is a clarinet - like , single - reed instrument used mainly in folk music . The word `` sipsi '' is possibly onomatopoeic . The Redhouse Turkish - English dictionary defines `` sipsi '' as `` 1 . prov. whistle ; boatswain 's pipe . 2 . reed ( of a clarinet ) . '' The Turkish Language Society lists `` sipsi '' as `` 1 . Aaç dallarndan yaplan düdük . ( a whistle / flute made from the branch of a tree . ) 2 . Gemici düdüü . ( Sailor 's whistle / pipe . ) 3 . Zurnann dudaklara gelen kam bölümü . ( The reed section that fits into the opening ( lips ) of a zurna . ) '' No link is made in either dictionary to any other Turkish word . The sipsi , however , is an instrument native to the Aegean region of Turkey , which has a millennia - old history of sea - faring , hence the reasonable association with the bosun 's pipe . ( 5 ) The sipsi can be made of bone , wood , or reed , though the reed variant is most common . Its size varies from region to region , but it generally contains five finger holes in the front , and one finger hole in the back . The sipsi is one of many reed instruments in Turkey used to play lead melodies in instrumental folk music . It is generally played in the Western part in the Aegean Region of Turkey . Most folk tunes played in this area with the sipsi are in 9/8 time . A double reed is a type of reed used to produce sound in various wind instruments. The term "double reed" comes from the fact that there are "two" pieces of cane vibrating against each other. A single reed consists of "one" piece of cane which vibrates against a mouthpiece made of metal, hardened rubber, resin, or some other material. The term "double reeds" can also refer collectively to the class of instruments which use double reeds. The piccolo (Italian for "small", but named "ottavino" in Italy) is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. The modern piccolo has most of the same fingerings as its larger sibling, the standard transverse flute, but the sound it produces is an octave higher than written. This gave rise to the name "ottavino" (Italian for "little octave"), the name by which the instrument is referred to in the scores of Italian composers.
  Piccolos are now only manufactured in the key of C ; however, they were once also available in D. It was for this D piccolo that John Philip Sousa wrote the famous solo in the final repeat of the closing section (trio) of his march "The Stars and Stripes Forever". 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 air across an opening. According to the instrument classification of HornbostelSachs, flutes are categorized as edge-blown aerophones. The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell. A person who plays a clarinet is called a "clarinetist" (sometimes spelled "clarinettist"). Oboes are a family of double reed woodwind musical instruments. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range. Oboes are usually made of wood, but there are also oboes made of synthetic materials. A soprano oboe measures roughly long, with metal keys, a conical bore and a flared bell. Sound is produced by blowing into the reed and vibrating a column of air. The distinctive oboe tone is versatile, and has been described as "bright". When the term "oboe" is used alone, it is generally taken to mean the standard treble instrument rather than other instruments of the family, such as the "cor anglais" (English horn) or the oboe "d'amore". The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone family was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1840. Adolphe Sax wanted to create a group or series of instruments that would be the most powerful and vocal of the woodwinds, and the most adaptive of the brass instruments, that would fill the vacant middle ground between the two sections. He patented the saxophone on June 28, 1846, in two groups of seven instruments each. Each series consisted of instruments of various sizes in alternating transposition. The series pitched in B and E, designed for military bands, have proved extremely popular and most saxophones encountered today are from this series. Instruments from the so-called "orchestral" series, pitched in C and F, never gained a foothold, and the B and E instruments have now replaced the C and F instruments when the saxophone is used in an orchestra. The arghul, also spelled argul, arghoul, arghool, argol, or yarghul (Israel), is a traditional Egyptian and Palestinian musical instrument. It has been used since Ancient Egyptian times and is still used as a traditional instrument in Egypt and Palestine. 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. A single-reed instrument is a woodwind instrument that uses only one reed to produce sound. The very earliest single-reed instruments were documented in ancient Egypt, as well as the Middle East, Greece, and the Roman Empire. The earliest types of single-reed instruments used idioglottal reeds, where the vibrating reed is a tongue cut and shaped on the tube of cane. Much later, single-reed instruments started using heteroglottal reeds, where a reed is cut and separated from the tube of cane and attached to a mouthpiece of some sort. By contrast, in a double reed instrument (such as the oboe and bassoon), there is no mouthpiece; the two parts of the reed vibrate against one another. Reeds are traditionally made of cane and produce sound when air is blown across or through them.
  Most single-reed instruments are descended from single-reed idioglot instruments called 'memet', found in Egypt as early as 2700 BCE. Due to their fragility, no instruments from antiquity were preserved but iconographic evidence is prevalent. During the Old Kingdom in Egypt (27782723 BCE), memets were depicted on the reliefs of seven tombs at Saqqarra, six tombs at Giza, and the pyramids of Queen Khentkaus. Most memets were double-clarinets, where two reed tubes were tied or glued together to form one instrument. Multiple pipes were used to reinforce sound or generate a strong beat-tone with slight variations in tuning among the pipes. One of the tubes usually functioned as a drone, but the design of these simple instruments varied endlessly. The entire reed entered the mouth, meaning that the player could not easily articulate so melodies were defined by quick movement of the fingers on the tone holes. These types of double-clarinets are still prevalent today, but also developed into simplified single-clarinets and hornpipes. Modern-day idioglots found in Egypt include the arghul and the zummara.
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answer: musical instrument