Instruments of the Orchestra - WOODWINDS

okay and welcome to the woodwind episode on the instruments of the orchestra um we're going to be looking at how we classify Woodwinds first of all uh we classify instruments if you recall from previous episodes on how they produce sound so the question we must ask is how do Woodwinds produce sound and they

produce Sound by blowing wind into the instrument uh I know it looks like when a trumpet player or trumbone player is playing their instrument it looks like they're just blowing air but we're going to learn that they actually do something different so that's why we put them in a different family now we're going to be

dividing the woodwinds like we did the strings we're going to have the standard instruments that you can expect there to be in almost every Orchestra all the time and then we're going to have the non-standard instruments which um are only going to be used in special situations and with the woodwinds you'll usually find that the um non-standard

instruments are often played by the standard players they don't have to like call someone up new to play the piccolo they just get one of the flute players to sub out on it so most professional orchestral woodwin players can play more than uh one instrument um but for the most part we're going to stick to those

standard ones we're going to look at a few of the non-standard ones and then we're going to subdivide the woodwinds into three more uh groups there's the non-read instruments that don't incorporate a read into the instrument and then we're going to look at single reads and that when we get to single reads I'll explain what a read is

and how it operates and stuff and then we also have double reads which have actually two reads uh attached to their instrument so let's look at the non reads the fluid is obviously the most uh obvious example there uh it's the only standard non-re in the orchestra uh they produce Sound by blowing air a column of