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The closed end means that tonettes are vessel flutes, instruments that rely on resonance within a closed air chamber for their voice. In fact, they're inline ocarinas , or vessel flutes that extend straight out from the mouth with a row of fingering holes. This design is largely responsible for their unique timbre.

They measure 7.5 to 8.5 inches long and a bit over an inch at their widest point. Most have a tapered end, though some feature a bell reminiscent of a clarinet. It's important to note that all tonettes have closed ends.

The main difference between these two instruments is the materials they are made from. The Tonette is a plastic instrument and usually made on the cheaper side. Recorders are a bit better quality when it comes to make because they come from the woodwind instrument family.

noun. a musical wind instrument consisting of a tube with a series of fingerholes or keys, in which the wind is directed against a sharp edge, either directly, as in the modern transverse flute, or through a flue, as in the recorder. an organ stop with wide flue pipes, having a flutelike tone.

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noun. trom·​bone träm-ˈbōn. (ˌ)trəm-ˈbōn, ˈträm-ˌbōn. : a brass instrument consisting of a long cylindrical metal tube with two turns and having a movable slide or valves for varying the tone and a usual range one octave lower than that of the trumpet.

The nose flute is a musical instrument often played in Polynesia and the Pacific Rim countries. Other versions are found in Africa. Fijian girl playing nose flute. (The player creates a ribbon-shaped stream of air (in this case with nose) through a tube with fingerholes.)

The instrument name recorder derives from the Latin recordārī (to call to mind, remember, recollect), by way of Middle French recorder (before 1349; to remember, to learn by heart, repeat, relate, recite, play music) and its derivative recordeur ( c. 1395; one who retells, a minstrel).

Recorder sizes and types The sizes most commonly in use today are the soprano, alto, tenor and bass. Recorders are also often referred to by their lowest sounding note: "recorder in f'" refers to a recorder with lowest note f'.

Airy, light, poetic, mellow, bright, wafting, ethereal, rich, soft, graceful, penetrating, brilliant, clear, shrill, silvery, wind-like, whistling, whispering, humming, filigree, sighing, aspirate.

The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute produces sound when the player's air flows across an opening.

A flautist is someone who plays the flute.