If you want to learn the rudiments of flute playing, it will help if you have the best Native American flute for beginners. It is a no-brainer that the first thing you will need to master the flute is to have the best Native American flute for beginners. The prices, of course, of this type […]
Woodwind Instruments
How Is The Flute Made?
While I was playing the flute the other day, a friend asked me how the flute is made. Well, his question is not easy to answer because the manufacturing of flute requires several processes. The flute, of course, belongs to the woodwind group of musical instruments. It consists of a specific family of musical instruments. […]
How To Play Wooden Flute
The metal flutes seem to be the popular flutes nowadays. Yet, many flutists are still quite fond of the wooden flute. Moreover, there are advantages concomitant with the use of the wooden flute. One of these advantages is that of producing better and richer sound compared to metal flutes. Besides, wooden flutes seem to be […]
Different Types of Saxophones
A visual assessment of the saxophone may make you think that it is a brass instrument. Yet, it is not for it is a wind instrument, despite being made usually of brass. It is a woodwind instrument because it has the oscillating reed made traditionally of woody cane that makes the sax’s sound. The saxophone […]
Who Invented the Flute?
Quick question: What is the oldest extant musical instrument in the world? If your answer is flute, you are right. The flute, of course, is the oldest extant musical instruments we know. Paleolithic people, for example, made use of a rudimentary form of flute with hand-bored holes. The oldest ones found dated back to 43,000 to […]
Best Clarinet Reeds for Beginners
The reed is an essential part of the clarinet, and it lies fixed onto the mouthpiece. When you blow some air into the mouthpiece, the air that passes along the reed makes it vibrate to create acoustic waves. Compared to the Oboe and bassoon that use double reed, the clarinet only uses a single reed. […]
Beginner Flute Scales: Ways To Improve Your Flute Skill Faster
You may get intimidated upon hearing your flute tutor speaks about flute scales on your first flute tutorial lesson. Nevertheless, if you really want to master flute playing, you will take it as a challenge instead. You would find the scales helpful enough to improve your flute-playing skills with the right care and teaching from […]
Advantages and Disadvantages of Playing Flute
Earlier last year, I was challenged by my bandmates to learn another musical instrument to add to the repertoire of musical instruments that I could play. So I started thinking, “Why not learn Flute?” Thus, I bought a flute, started tinkering with it, and learned the rudiments of playing it. It is indeed great to […]
Best Music Stands For Flute
As a flute player performing publicly, whether, in front of a small crowd of ten or a huge gathering of ten thousand people, the very last thing you want to happen is to mess up the performance due to poor choice of a music stand. Hundreds of hours of practice gone to waste just because […]
Woodwind Instruments In The Orchestra
A basic orchestra today would consist of around 80 players, and it is divided into four families: Brass, Percussion, String, and Woodwind instruments. The origins of the orchestral music are largely credited to the musical era of the 1600s. However, it was not until the height of the classical period that the woodwind section was […]