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What is the difference between woodwind instruments and brass instruments?

Wind musical instruments are divided into wood and brass, but this classification is only historically associated with the materials used to make the instruments. Today, this division implies only a way to extract sound: in woodwind instruments, the sounding column is regulated by blocking the holes on the body, and in brass instruments, by changing the force of air blowing or the position of the lips. Thus, woodwinds include both the flute, which almost no one now makes from wood, and the saxophone, which throughout its history was only metal. And the group of brass wind instruments, in addition to the usual trumpet and trombone, includes, for example, a serpent, which was made of wood several centuries ago.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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