Aerophones&Chordo

• Aerophones


  Instruments mostly end-blown with the air stream directed into the open end of the tube
• Whistle


  • Air is blown at a sharp edge in the instruments
• Blowhole Instruments


  • Air is blown across the sharp edge at the blowhole
• Reed Instruments


  • Vibration of a reed or reeds begin the air vibration
• Cup Mouthpiece Instruments


  • Buzzes the lips against the mouthpiece, causing a sympathetic vibration in the air inside
• Pipe of an Organ


  • Have sharp edge like whistle, but the pipes are filled with air from something other than a mouth or nose, usually a bellows
• Free Aerophones


  • Cause vibration in the air around them rather than inside them
• Suling


  • Less common flute and a ring type
• Saggeypo


  • Closed on the end by a node with the open end held against the lower lip of the player as he blows directly across the top
• Diwas


  • Bamboo panpipes consisting of 5-8 strung
• Flauta


  • Most transverse flutes
• Chordophones


  These are bamboo or wood stringed instruments that may be struck, plucked, or bowed
• Zithers


  • The strings are stretched across, over, or inside a resonator
• Lutes


  • Strings stretched across the resonator and up a neck
• Lyre


  • Strings leave the resonator at right angles to an edge and run to a cross bar that is held away from the resonator
• Harp


  • The strings leave the resonator at a slant up to a neck connected to the resonator
• Musical Bow


  • Strings are stretched from one end of a wooden bow to the other
• Polychordal Zithers


  • Have several strings that run around the tube
• Parrarel Stringed Zithers


  • Two strings on one side of the tube
• Cumparsa


  • A favorite string
• Rondalla


  • Ensembles consist of plucked, and instruments like bandurria
• Bandurria


  • Is pear shaped, with a rounded back, a round hole and a fretted neck