Függelék:Glossary of aerophones

This is a glossary of aerophones.

See also the glossary of musical instrument classification (organology).

accordion
A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.
alboka
A single reed instrument of Basque origin.
alphorn
A long, curved, wooden horn used by mountain-dwelling herders in the Alps, originally to call cattle but now only as musical instrument in classical and folk tunes.
alto horn
A type of brass instrument, pitched in E♭.
arghul
An ancient single-reed instrument of Egyptian origin.
bagpipe
A musical wind instrument having a flexible bag inflated by a tube or bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes.
balaban
A double-reed instrument of Azerbaijani origin.
bandoneon
A small Latin American accordion played with buttons.
baritone horn
A brass instrument in the baritone range that is similar to a euphonium.
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bassoon
A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.
bawu
A free reed instrument of Chinese origin.
bazooka
A primitive trombone having wide tubes.
bugle
A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series.
calliope
A musical organ, consisting of steam whistles played with a keyboard. Often used with merry-go-rounds.
chalumeau
A single-reed instrument of European origin, used mainly in the Baroque and Classical eras.
clarinet
A woodwind musical instrument that has a distinctive liquid tone whose characteristics vary among its three registers: chalumeau (low), clarion (medium), and altissimo (high).
concertina
A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
conch
A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell.
cor anglais
A large double-reed instrument in the oboe family.
cornet
A brass instrument with a conical bore.
cornett
A trumpet-like wind instrument used in European music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
didgeridoo
A musical instrument endemic to the Top End of Australia, consisting of a long hollowed out log, which, when blown into, produces a low, deep mesmerising drone with sweeping rhythms.
diple
Any of several instruments of Balkan origin; namely a type of flute and a type of bagpipe.
diplica
A single-reed instrument of Balkan origin.
double clarinet
A single-reed woodwind instruments played in a pair.
duduk
A woodwind instrument, originating in Armenia
erke
A type of large horn originating in Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.
euphonium
A valved brass instrument, a sax horn, the tenor of the tuba family of instruments, having the appearance very similar to that of a tuba.
flugelhorn
A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same B-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. A bugle with valves.
flute
A woodwind instrument consisting of a metal, wood or bamboo tube with a row of circular holes and played by blowing across a hole in the side of one end or through a narrow channel at one end against a sharp edge, while covering none, some or all of the holes with the fingers to vary the note played.
French horn
A coiled brass musical instrument, derived from the French hunting horn, which has rotary valves.
frula
A flute-like instrument of Serbian origin.
fue
Any of several kinds of Japanese flute.
guan
A double-reed instrument with a cylindrical bore, of Chinese origin.
harmonica
A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.
Heckel-clarina
A single-reed instrument with a conical bore, originating in Germany.
Heckelphone-clarinet
A single-reed instrument with a conical bore, originating in Germany.
hichiriki
A double-reed flute of Japanese origin, a type of fue
hulusi
A free reed instrument of Chinese origin.
Irish flute
A traditional conical-bore flute of Irish origin.
Jew's harp
A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.
kagurabue
A transverse flute of Japanese origin, used mainly in kagura performance.
khene
A mouth organ of Lao origin.
komabue
A transverse flute of Japanese origin, used mainly in the traditional music of the Japanese royal court, and a type of fue.
launeddas
A trio of clarinets played as one instrument, originating in Sardinia.
lur
An archaic kind of long, curved horn.
mellophone
A brass instrument frequently used in place of the French horn in marching bands and similar performance groups.
melodica
A free-reed keyboard wind instrument.
mey
A cylindrical double-reed instrument used in Turkish music.
mijwiz
A pair of single-reed flutes played as one instrument, of Middle-Eastern origin.
Native American flute
A type of end-blown flute, now mainly used in folk revival and New Age music.
oboe
A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grendilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.
oboe d'amore
A large double-reed instrument in the oboe family.
octavin
A single-reed instrument with a conical bore, originating in Germany.
olifant
A type of horn made from an elephant tusk.
ophicleide
A keyed brass baritone bugle, now replaced by the tuba in orchestral music.
palendag
A long bamboo flute of Filipino origin.
pibgorn
A single-reed instrument of Welsh origin.
piccolo
An instrument similar to a flute, but smaller, and playing an octave higher.
  • Performer: piccoloist
  • Note: The word piccolo is also used to describe a type of other instruments, designed to play in a higher pitch, such as the piccolo clarinet.
pipe organ
An aerophone that uses pressurized air controlled through a keyboard to produce sound.
piri
A double-reed instrument of Korean origin.
pump organ
An aerophone that uses bellows to produce sound.
quray
An aerophone of Bashkir origin; a long open endblown flute with five to seven finger holes
recorder
A musical instrument of the woodwind family, fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.
ryūteki
A transverse flute of Japanese origin.
sackbut
A brass instrument from the Renaissance and Baroque Eras, and an ancestor of the modern trombone.
saxhorn
Any of a group of similar brass instruments, resembling a bugle in shape, but with valves.
saxonette
A soprano clarinet with both a curved barrel and an upturned bell.
saxophone
A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.
serpent
A brass instrument shaped like a snake.
shakuhachi
A Japanese flute which is tuned to a pentatonic scale is end-blown like a recorder instead of being held transversely like the Western transverse flute, and a type of fue.
shawm
A mediaeval double reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.
sheng
A mouth-blown free reed instrument, with vertical pipes, of Chinese origin.
shō
A free reed instrument of Japanese origin.
shofar
An archaic horn of Jewish origin, used in religious services.
sipsi
A single-reed instrument of Turkish origin.
soprano cornet
A type of cornet with a higher pitch than standard.
sousaphone
A valved brass instrument with the same length as a tuba, but shaped differently so that the bell is above the head, that the valves are situated directly in front of the musical instruments and a few inches above the waist, and that most of the weight rests on one shoulder.
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sudrophone
A brass instrument with a cylindrical bore and four valves.
suona
A double-reed horn of Chinese origin.
taepyeongso
A double-reed wind instrument used in the traditional music of Korea.
tárogató
Two different woodwind instruments used in Hungary and Romania.
  • Note: The earliest references to the tárogató are a shawm-like double-reed instrument. It was later conflated with a more recent single-reed instrument rather more like a clarinet.
  • Synonyms: (töröksíp (Turkish); tárogatós; taragot or ttorogoata (Romanian)
trombone
A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both).
trumpet
A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat.
tuba
A large brass musical instrument, usually in the bass range, played through a vibration of the lips upon the mouthpiece and fingering of the keys.
tumpong
A kind of bamboo flute of Filipino origin.
Vienna horn
A brass aerophone used mainly in Austria in the performance of orchestral and classical music.
vladimirskiy rozhok
An archaic horn of Russian origin, similar to the cornet.
vuvuzela
A simple plastic horn of South African origin.
washint
An end-blown flute of Ethiopian origin.
water organ
A type of pipe organ that uses water pressure to affect airflow.
xaphoon
A modern single-reed instrument.
zhaleika
A traditional single-reed instrument of Russian origin.