534a9: Double reed

534a9: Double reed

Description

Double reed instruments produce their sound by means of the vibration which occurs when a player blows through the aperture (opening) between two reeds which are bound together.

Examples:

Oboe
Shawm (precursor of the oboe that produces a strident buzzing tone and is usually played outdoors)

Context for this page:

Ocm module: Double reed
In ocm module: Aerophones
In ocm module: Musical instruments
In modular book: Expanded ethnomusicology categories for the Outline of Cultural Materials, by Kenneth R. Hollingsworth
In bookshelf: Anthropology

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 21 March 1999