Product Description: This book looks at a variety of woodwind instruments and shows the reader the different ways in which they are played around the world.

Looks at the different instruments, from the recorder to the Turkish zurna, which make up the group of woodwinds, and describes how they are played and how they fit into larger groups of instruments.

Provides details about woodwind instruments, from the materials they are made from to how they are played.

Explores how woodwind instruments work, the parts of a woodwind instrument, and the ways they combine to create music.

Describes eighteen flutes, which make up a large part of the woodwind family, including the piccolo, fife, suling, and nay

Product Description: The late 17th century through to the end of the 18th century saw rapid progress in the development of woodwind instruments and the composition of a vast body of music for those instruments. During this period a large amount of music for domestic consumption was written for a growing amateur market, a market which has regrown in the latter part of the 20th century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Text and pictures introduce the woodwind family of instruments, such as flutes, saxophones, oboes, bassoons, and their relatives

An introduction to woodwind instruments which produce a sound by having air blown through them

This superior study by a leading authority on woodwind instruments is considered the definitive work on the subject, combining a history of woodwinds with detailed descriptions and photographs of the various instruments in use today. Foreword by Sir Adrian Boult. Glossary. Appendixes. Includes 34 halftones, 41 line illustrations, 25 musical examples and 16 fingering charts.

A brief introduction to the musical instruments of the woodwind family

A brief introduction to the musical instruments of the woodwind family