Classical Notes

The Woodwind Family!

Over the course of history, uncountable musical instruments have been created out of natural and man-made materials. They’ve changed and improved over the years, but there still seems to be the same classifying groups or families of instruments . The main groups are strings, brass, percussion, and woodwind. Some people also classify all ‘keyboard’ instruments together into a keyboard family, electronic instruments as a family, folk or world instruments as a family, and so on.

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In the cultures of almost every country in the world, wood or reed instruments were one of the first to be used. Inspired by nature, no doubt, wind passing through various sizes of wood made a pleasing sound. Somewhere along the line, someone added holes to help create different pitches. If you would like to learn more about the history and development of this wonderful family of instruments, or simply listen to some of their delightful sounds, you will enjoy this page I created about The Woodwind Family!