Abstract
Woodwind instruments, whether excited by vibrating reeds or by air jets, have the common characteristic of using finger holes to change the pitch of the note being played. They share this feature, as we remarked in Chapter 14, with several more or less obsolete lip driven instruments such as cornetts, ophicleides, and serpents. We begin this chapter, therefore, with a rather general discussion of possible bore shapes and finger hole dispositions before looking at particular instruments in more detail.
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Fletcher, N.H., Rossing, T.D. (1998). Woodwind Reed Instruments. In: The Physics of Musical Instruments. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21603-4_15
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