Title: Music for Kids: Woodwind Instruments
Headings: Music for Kids
Music for Kids
Woodwind Instruments
The Oboe is a woodwind instrument
Flute
Saxophone

Content: Music for Kids: Woodwind Instruments


Music for Kids
Woodwind Instruments
Woodwinds are a type of musical instrument that make their sound when a musician blows air into or across the mouthpiece. They get their name from the fact that most of them were once made of wood. Today many are made of other materials such as metal or plastic. The Oboe is a woodwind instrument
There are a lot of types of woodwinds including the flute, piccolo, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, bagpipes, and recorder. They all look somewhat similar in that they are all long tubes of various sizes with metal keys that cover the holes when played to make different notes. The bigger the woodwind instrument the lower the pitch sound they make. Woodwinds can be divided up into two main types of instruments. Flute instruments and reed instruments. Flute instruments make sound when the musician blows air across an edge in the instrument while reed instruments have a reed, or two, that vibrate when the air is blown.