Modern flutes are made of silver, gold or platinum there are generally 2 to 4 flutes in an orchestra. The flute is the oldest of all instruments that produce pitched sounds (not just rhythms), and was originally made from wood, stone, clay or hollow reeds like bamboo. Learn more about each woodwind instrument: The woodwind family of instruments includes, from the highest sounding instruments to the lowest, the piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon and contrabassoon. Just as with the stringed instruments, the smaller woodwinds play higher pitches while the longer and larger instruments play the lower notes. The clarinet uses a single reed made of one piece of wood, while the oboe and bassoon use a double reed made of two pieces joined together. The mouthpieces for some woodwinds, including the clarinet, oboe and bassoon, use a thin piece of wood called a reed, which vibrates when you blow across it. Metal caps called keys cover the holes of most woodwind instruments. You play them by blowing air through the mouthpiece (that's the "wind" in "woodwind") and opening or closing the holes with your fingers to change the pitch. They are all basically narrow cylinders or pipes, with holes, an opening at the bottom end and a mouthpiece at the top. Today, they are made of wood, metal, plastic or some combination. Without some standard instrument builders in different cities couldn't build instruments that could be played together.The instruments in this family all used to be made of wood, which gives them their name. I'm guessing that tuning became standardized when the technology became available to measure frequency scientifically. * A=440Hz was standardized sometime in the 1800s. If you simply want to avoid 440Hz, you can use a notch filter to remove 440Hz without pitch-shifting and without affecting anything else. (Audacity or any other audio editor can pitch-shift.) If you want to "transpose" your recordings, just pitch-shift EVERYTHING down by 1.8%. You can ASSUME that ALL music you are listening to is tuned to the 440Hz standard. You can find songs played with instruments tuned to the normal 440Hz standard that don't contain any A-notes! And, there are 8 A-keys on the piano, so it's possible to have A-notes in a song but no A4 (440Hz). And of course, music contains many notes & chords, and thousands of frequency components.Īnd obviously, music contains many notes. You need some standard so everybody can play together, and A=440 is the standard.Īll real world sounds contain harmonics & overtones (that's why a guitar sounds different from a trumpet, even when playing the same note). Many instruments can't be re-tuned (horns, & woodwinds, etc.) and it takes many hours to tune/re-tune a piano. It's a way to tune the whole orchestra to play the same notes and a way to build instruments to a standard so they can play together. Modern* instruments are tuned to A=440Hz. Quote I believe that you are aware why is this important.It's simply a standard tuning reference.
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