What are instruments that use air?

Wind instruments are typically grouped into two families:
  • Brass instruments (horns, trumpets, trombones, euphoniums, and tubas)
  • Woodwind instruments (recorders, flutes, oboes, clarinets, saxophones, and bassoons)
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Which instrument uses most air?

The tuba, along with the flute, is at the top of the list for instruments that take the most air to play.
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Which of these instruments are played by blowing air?

Answer: oboe. a musical instrument that you play by blowing air through a reed.
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What is played by blowing air?

oboe. a musical instrument that you play by blowing air through a reed.
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How many wind instruments are there?

The woodwind family of instruments includes these 6 major instruments: Flutes and piccolos. Saxophones. Clarinets.
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What are the 5 wind instruments?

Wind instruments are typically grouped into two families:
  • Brass instruments (horns, trumpets, trombones, euphoniums, and tubas)
  • Woodwind instruments (recorders, flutes, oboes, clarinets, saxophones, and bassoons)
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Does flute use more air than tuba?

You actually use more air on the flute than on a tuba as a lot of the air is wasted on the flute!
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Does flute require a lot of air?

1. The flute requires a lot of air and beginners may get light headed. Take a little break if you feel this way.
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How much air does a tuba use?

The tuba and euphonium both require a high volume of air to function. For the lower keyed tubas, this can approach the exhalation of nearly 5 liters of air per second, (a figure which is put into stark relief when considering the average adult lung capacity of around 6 liters).
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Is trumpet or flute harder?

Which is easier? The flute or the trumpet? The trumpet is more difficult to start learning initially, but in the long run when comparing in all categories both instruments are of equal difficulty. The trumpet's main difficulty in comparison to the flute is the trumpet embouchure which requires intense coordination.
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Is flute a quiet instrument?

Flute can be quiet, as instruments go. But it's also quite capable of holding its own in a full symphony orchestra!
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Which instrument uses the least air?

The oboe requires the least amount of air of all wind instruments.
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Can a flute player play tuba?

Flute players have a natural aperture, which is nearly perfect for tuba and they are rarely have the problem of clenching their teeth.
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Can a short person play the tuba?

There's no real height requirement to play the tuba, but there are a few other things that you should consider.
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Is violin a wind instrument?

String family instruments are any instruments that use vibrating strings to create their sound. In an orchestra, the most common string family instruments are the violin, viola, cello, bass, and harp.
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Is a saxophone a wind instrument?

The saxophone is one of the most unique and versatile wind instruments of all time. Although it was originally envisioned as a classical and military instrument, it has since made its way into almost every genre of music around the world from pop and rock to jazz, classical, and the avant garde.
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Which instrument can be played without blowing the air in it?

The instrument which does not need to blow air by mouth to play is: Banjo.
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Is playing tuba hard?

Learning how to play the tuba can be a fun and exciting adventure, but becoming comfortable with the larger-than-average instrument can be hard, especially for those who are new to the instrument, younger students, or those who feel they may be too small to handle the instrument.
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Can a flute play violin music?

The flute is considered a C instrument and plays anything in the treble clef. So, can the flute play violin music? Yes, yes it can.
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Is piano a wind instrument?

On a piano, however, those vibrations are initiated by hammers hitting the strings rather than by plucking or by moving a bow across them. So, the piano also falls into the realm of percussion instruments. As a result, today the piano is generally considered to be both a stringed and a percussion instrument.
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Is guitar a wind instrument?

Woodwind instruments primarily produce sound via air being blown over a small round hole or through a single or double reed, and so guitars do not fit into this category.
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Which instrument is wind instrument?

The brasses are wind instruments where the sound is generated by the vibration of a player's lips against a mouthpiece. This technique is unique and characteristic of brass instruments (trumpet, tuba, trombone, horn). If you don't have that, it's not a brass instrument.
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How loud is a clarinet?

Clarinet: 92 to 103 db.
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Is flute or clarinet harder?

Both have their easier and not so easy aspects : I found it easier to get an acceptable sound to start with on the clarinet, and also found the posture rather easier. Once you're going on the flute though, a lot of the basics will fall into place with practice (and good guidance).
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