Music & Instruments : Different Types of Woodwind Instruments

A few different types of woodwind instruments include the alto saxophone, the flute, the clarinet and the oboe. Discover how woodwind instruments are used in marching bands, school bands and jazz bands with help from a professional saxophonist in this free video on music and instruments.

Expert: Brian Medeiros
Contact: www.myspace.com/organix
Bio: Brian Medeiros has been playing the saxophone for more than 10 years. He has a Jazz Studies degree from the University of North Carolina-Wilimington.
Filmmaker: Reel Media LLC

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[ultraintensegamer]

@yidwitch sax was made from oboe keywork

[LaNinjette]

@wiiman247

It's similar. But not very similar like he said.

I play oboe and I'm learning clarinet. Even though it's in a different key the basic fingerings are pretty similar to each other.........................­.....Just letting you know lol.

[MJCRacer]

play them!!!!

[yidwitch]

Originaly, the flute was made of wood and the modern trad flutes are still made of materiels like african blackwood; the sax came a lot later and the fingerning was developed from the flute fingering to give flute players another easily fingered instrument.

Apart from some student clainets, nearly all clarinets are made of wood

If you're going to pontificate on these subjects... at least study the subject first - and don't sound like a 3 year old trying to explain orbital mechanics!

[wiiman247]

This guy is so dumb.... "used to be made of wood," hell, every clarinet player in my wind ensemble has a wooden clarinet for concert band except one person. Also since when is an oboe very similar to a clarinet, the technique is COMPLETLY differnt from clarinet and it is in the key of C like flute instead of Bb Clarinet as shown. Oh, and he forgot bassoon and english horn.

[bulldogfan87]

I play a Bb Yamaha clarinet but its made of wood...

All but one of the nine clarinets in my beginner band are made of wood...

[123456789gabbi]

@styleshorse6 its basically the same fingering.

[zuchinni13]

Flute and Saxophone are similar. The fingerings are VERY similar. But I agree about the Clarinet... I know more players with wooden clarinet than a plastic one.

[styleshorse6]

your just comparing everything to a saxophone i play the flute and it is NOTHING like the saxophone and i used to play the clarinet and geuss what it was made of WOOD!!!!!

[MylesPrower]

"Clarinet's made of plastic now, used to make them out of wood"

What!? Any clarinet player in a middle-school ensemble knows that wooden Clarinets are more beneficial and have better tone than plastic ones. Clarinets are still largely made out of all sorts of different woods.