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. A reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to make music. ... A wind instrument consists of a tube containing a column of air which is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set into the end of the tube. ... Look up cane in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to make music. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ...

Construction

Bassoon reeds

There are several differences, the most obvious being size, between various types of double reeds, for example between that for a bassoon and that for an oboe or a cor anglais. Download high resolution version (700x1200, 213 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (700x1200, 213 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers and occasionally even higher. ... The cor anglais, or English horn, is a double reed woodwind musical instrument in the woodwind family. ...

Arundo donax cane is used for the making of double reeds. For bassoon reeds, tubes of this cane are first split lengthwise then gouged to a certain thickness. The chosen piece of cane is then cut to shape and the centre portion is thinned (profiled). The cane is folded end to end to form the two blades of the reed. The unprofiled end of the cane is shaped into a tube with the aid of a mandrel and bound with three strategically positioned wires. Additional binding using thread is added. The folded tip is cut off to allow the blades to vibrate and final adjustments to the interior of the reed using a reamer, and to the exterior using a reed-scraping knife, are carried out. The reed is then ready to fit to the crook of the bassoon. species See text Arundo is a cosmopolitan genus of stout, perennial grasses from the family Poaceae. ... A mandrel (pronounced , and also spelled mandril; in American English also called an arbor) is either an object used to shape machined work; a tool component that grips or clamps materials to be machined; or a tool component that can be used to grip other moving tool components. ... Look up crook in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The construction of double reeds for the oboe family of instruments is similar in principle: like the bassoon's reeds, they consist of two pieces of Arundo donax cane fastened together with an opening at the tip. However, because the oboe does not have a crook, the cane must be fastened to a metal tube (the staple), the lower half of which is normally surrounded by a piece of cork; this staple is then inserted into the farrow, at the upper end of the oboe. The cor anglais does not need the cork, as it uses a crook, like the bassoon. The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. ... species See text Arundo is a cosmopolitan genus of stout, perennial grasses from the family Poaceae. ... You may be looking for: Chess opening Al-Fatiha, The Opening, first chapter of the Quran This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to make music. ... A cork stopper for a wine bottle Champagne corks Varnished cork tiles can be used for flooring, as a substitute for linoleum or tiles. ... The cor anglais, or English horn, is a double reed woodwind musical instrument in the woodwind family. ...

There are many different methods of making reeds and many variations of design have been developed. Players can buy reeds either ready-made, or in various stages of formation, such as part-scraped, reed blanks, or buy the staples and cane separately. Cane is sold in several forms: as tubes, gouged, or gouged and shaped. Bassoon cane has the further option of being profiled before purchase. Cane from several different regions is used in reed making, traditionally from southern France. There are also many options with regard to staples, shaping equipment and so forth which all have a subtle effect on the tone quality a reed will produce.

Playing a double reed

A bassoon reed

Bassoon double reeds are wider than oboe double reeds; they are also shorter and thus do not need such a tight embouchure in order to make a sound. It is because of its double reed that the oboe is such a difficult instrument to play - without regular practice, the mouth can become very tired and loose and one finds difficulty in playing even a single note for more than even as little as 30 seconds. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 444 pixelsFull resolution (1800 × 1000 pixel, file size: 495 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 444 pixelsFull resolution (1800 × 1000 pixel, file size: 495 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers and occasionally even higher. ... The embouchure is the use of facial muscles and the shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece of a wind instrument. ... Look up practice, practise in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

List of instruments which use double reeds

Main Western orchestral instruments

• Bassoon
  • Contraforte
  • Tenoroon
  • Semi contrabassoon
  • Contrabassoon
• Heckelphone
  • Piccolo heckelphone
• Oboe
  • Piccolo oboe
  • Oboe d'amore
  • cor anglais (english horn)
  • Bass oboe
• Sarrusophone
  • Contrabass Sarrusophone

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Period instruments

Period instruments, or playing on period instruments refers to performance of classical music on the original instruments of Renaissance, Baroque or Classicism, or using the historical replicas of the original instruments preserved in the museums. ...

Instruments where the reed is enclosed in a windcap

• Cornamuse
• Crumhorn
• Kortholt
• Rauschpfeife
• canameesious

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Instruments where the reed is not enclosed in a windcap

• baroque bassoon
• baroque oboe
• dulcian
• oboe da caccia
• rackett
• shawm

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Other instruments

• bagpipes
• bombarde
• duduk
• dulzaina
• guan
• hichiriki
• hojok
• nadaswaram
• organs
• piffero
• pi nai (used in piphat)
• piri
• shehnai
• sralai
• sopila
• suona
• surnay
• tarogato (early)

A piper playing the Great Highland Bagpipe. ... Bombardes from Kevrenn an Arvorig The bombarde is a French folk instrument from Brittany. ... A duduk The duduk (pronounced ) is a traditional woodwind instrument of Armenian origins. ... For the band, please see Dulzaina (band) The dulzaina is a Spanish double reed instrument in the oboe family. ... Guanzi The guan (管; pinyin: guǎn; literally pipe or tube) is a Chinese double reed wind instrument. ... The hichiriki (Japanese: 篳篥) is a double reed instrument of Japanese gagaku music. ... The hojok, also known as the taepyongso (tae-pyong-so, big peace wind instrument), is a Korean wind instrument that falls into the oboe family. ... Nadaswaram, also spelt Nadhaswaram, and also called Nagaswaram, is one of the most popular classical instruments of south India and the worlds loudest non-brass acoustic instrument. ... Organ in Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany The organ is a keyboard instrument played using one or more manuals and a pedalboard. ... The piffero is a double reed musical instrument with a conical bore, of the oboe family. ... A Piphat is a kind of ensemble in the classical music of Thailand. ... The piri (피리) is a Korean double reed instrument, used in both the folk and classical (court) music of Korea. ... For the movie refer to Shehnai (film) The shehnai is an aerophonic instrument which is thought to bring good luck, and as a result, is widely used in North India for marriages and [[processions]. This tube-like instrument gradually widens towards the lower end. ... The sralai is the only wind instrument in the Pinn Peat ensemble. ... Sopile (or rozenice named in Istra) are ancient traditional music instrument similarly to the nowadays oboa which is kept until todays on the region of Kvarner, Kastav, Vinodol, Island Krk and Istra. ... Two Suonas The suona (simplified: 唢呐; traditional: 嗩吶; also called the laba 喇叭 or haidi 海笛) is a Han Chinese shawm (oboe). ... A surnay (surla, zurna, zournas) is a traditional folk shawm, developed in ancient Egypt. ... The Tarogato (Hungarian: tárogató, Romanian: torogoata) refers to two different woodwind instruments, both of them Hungarian. ...

Double reed societies

• International Double Reed Society, website: http://www.idrs.org
• British Double Reed Society, website: http://www.bdrs.org.uk