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What does the woodwind section of the orchestra include?

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The woodwind section of the orchestra includes oboes, clarinets, bassoons and flutes.

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What were all The woodwind instruments made of in the past?

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In the past all these instruments were made of wood, but these days they can made of plastic, metal or wood.

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What do you have to do to all of the woodwind instruments to make a sound?

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All the instruments have to be blown to make a sound.

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Name the five members of the strings family?

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Flute, piccolo, bassoon, clarinet, oboe

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What is the flute?

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The flute is the only member of the woodwind family that’s not made of wood!

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What is the piccolo?

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The piccolo is about half the size of the flute and sounds higher.

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What were ancient flutes made of?

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Ancient flutes were made from animal bones including swan, vulture and mammoth tusk

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Where does the woodwind family sit in the orchestra?

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Right in the middle

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What are woodwind instruments like?

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They are like magical spirits. Their sound leaps and twists and twirls through the air.

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How can the woodwind family play?

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They can play delicately and sing the most beautiful melodies. But they can also be full of fury too.

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What is the woodwind section home of?

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The highest and lowest voices in the orchestra.

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What is the highest instrument in the woodwind family?

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Piccolo, part of the flute family

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What is the lowest instrument in the woodwind family?

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Bassoon, it growls and rumbles lower than the double basses

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What is in between the highest and lowest instruments?

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The clarinet and oboe. Like bassoons clarinets and oboes all make their sound when the player blows through a piece of bamboo cane, shaped into a reed

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What is the flute used in?

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The flute is used in many different types of music including jazz, folk and orchestral.

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What is the person who plays the flute called?

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A flautist

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Why is it funny to think that the flute is part of the woodwind section of the orchestra?

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It’s made of metal, but in the early orchestras, flutes were made of wood

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How do you make a sound in the flute?

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By blowing in over the hole

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How could you try to blow into something like a flute?

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Using a bottle, you make the sound by blowing across the bottle

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How many octaves can a flute play?

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About 3, starting on a low C

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What is the piccolo an octave higher than?

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The flute, so when you play a printed C it will actually sound an octave higher than that

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What are oboes like?

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Oboes, like bassoons, need a double reed to produce a sound - it’s a bit like blowing through a blade of grass between the thumbs.

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How long have oboes been used in the orchestra for?

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About 400 years

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How many sizes of oboe are there?

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There are 6 different sizes of oboe. One of them is called the oboe d’amore which means oboe of love.

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What are oboe reeds made from?

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Oboe reeds are made from cane which is a type of grass

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When was the oboe that we would recognize first invented?

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Around 1650, in the court of Louie the Son King. The oboe has developed from that.

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What is the reed made of?

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Two pieces of cane, which are symmetrical and vibrate together when you blow down them to produce a sound.

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What happens when you put the reed in the oboe?

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The sound changes

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How do you change the pitch on the notes?

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Moving your fingers up and down on the various keys on the instrument

30
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What does the instrument start on?

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A bottom B flat

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What is a cadenza?

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It’s a moment when one instrument takes the centre stage and has a little bit of artistic freedom, their not conducted in the same way. So however you play the cadenza is up to you, it’s like a creative artist.

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What kind of an instrument is the oboe?

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A very very expressive instrument

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Where does the oboes strength lie?

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In its ability to deliver a beautiful solo line and its used all the time by composers. It has a kind of soul to it, the sound of the oboe which makes them unique

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What is the Clarinet used in?

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The clarinet is used in many different types of music including jazz, folk and orchestral.

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What are the pads underneath the keys of a clarinet often from?

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The pads underneath the keys of a clarinet are often made from something called ‘fishskin’, which isn’t fish skin at all but is in fact the intestine of a sheep or cow.

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What does a clarinetist have to put together?

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A clarinetist has to pug the seven parts of the clarinet together before it’s ready to play

37
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How are plastic clarinets made!

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Plastic clarinets are made by melting tiny pellets of plastic and forcing the liquid plastic into a mould

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What was the last of the orchestral woodwind instruments to be invented?

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The clarinet

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What is the clarinet made of?

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African black wood now, but in the early days it would be made of box wood and the clarinet would have had a lovely brown colour

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How many keys would the very early clarinets have had?

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2, one on the bottom and one on the top, over the last 200 years, gradually more and more keys have been added to the clarinet that we know of

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What is the most important part of the mouthpiece?

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The reed

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What kind of an instrument is the Clarinet?

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A single reed instrument, different to the oboe and bassoon which are double reeds

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What will happen if you try to make a sound using a mouthpiece with no reed, what would happen?

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It would make no sound

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What happens when you put the reed in the mouthpiece?

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You should be able to make sound

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Why is the bassoon so awkward?

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The bassoon is awkward to hold so bassoonists use a sling or strap to make it more comfortable to play.

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What is the bassoon split into?

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The bassoon is split into 6 parts to make it easier to carry around. The bassoonist needs to fit the parts together to play it.

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What does an orchestra usually have?

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Orchestras usually have two bassoons and a contrabassoon which is even bigger and lower in sound than the bassoon p

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What does a bassoonist’s left thumb have to control?

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A bassoonist’s left thumb has to control up to ten keys

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What kind of reed does a bassoon use?

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A double reed, two reeds of a cane (a sort of bamboo) and they’re bunged together quite tightly

50
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What happens when you blow into a reed?

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They vibrate, first of all towards each other and then away again at great speed

51
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What is the full orchestral range of the bassoon?

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3 and a half octaves

52
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What shape is the bassoon?

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A cone

53
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Why does it turn round at the bottom?

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Because there are two tubes inside

54
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What are the order of the woodwind family from highest to lowest?

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Piccolo, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon

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