single reed instrument

reed instrument, in music, any of several wind instruments (aerophones) that sound when the player's breath or air from a wind chamber causes a reed (a thin blade of cane or metal) to vibrate, thereby setting up a sound wave in an enclosed air column (in reed pipes) or in the open air (usually free reeds).

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 reed in single reed instruments is clamped to the mouthpiece so that only a very narrow opening remains between the tip of the reed and the mouthpiece. When the player closes their lips around the mouthpiece and blows, a tone is created as the reed vibrates against the mouthpiece.

Unique within the family of wind instruments, double reed instruments feature reeds with two pieces of cane that vibrate against each other when a musician blows against them. As you've probably guessed, single reed instruments use only one piece of cane to produce sound.

What exactly is a "double reed" ? An oboe reed is made from two pieces of cut cane, which is why it's called "double" reed. They are strapped to a metal pipe face-to-face by a string. The cork portion attached around the metal pipe fits into the upper joint socket.

Being a tone generator, the reed is a very important part of the instrument. Even more so than the resonator, which is the bore of the mouthpiece and the instrument. Whether the reed is balanced or not affects the vibration of the air column and hence affects the fundamental tone.

reed instruments The single reed for the clarinet is made from a slip cut from the stem of A. donax. After being trimmed, the reed is flattened on the inner side, while the end of the rounded outer side is scraped down to a feather edge.

The two examples of reed instruments are saxophone and clarinet.

Clarinet - The clarinet is a popular single reed instrument. It's used in classical, jazz, and band music.

noun. : two reeds bound together with a slight separation between them so that air passing through them causes them to beat against one another and that are used as a sound-producing device in certain woodwind instruments (such as members of the oboe family)

The Single Reed instruments are: the Clarinet family and, exceptionally in the orchestra, the Saxophone family. Regarding the Double Reed instruments, they use a cane folded double wrapped on a metal tube.

reed instrument, in music, any of several wind instruments (aerophones) that sound when the player's breath or air from a wind chamber causes a reed (a thin blade of cane or metal) to vibrate, thereby setting up a sound wave in an enclosed air column (in reed pipes) or in the open air (usually free reeds).