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| | The acoustics of the Asian free red mouth organs |
 | | The bawu is a closed cylindrical pipe with the free reed at one end, in which the effective acoustical length is varied by the use of tone holes. | | | In the khaen, reed length only approximately corresponds to sounding frequency, with pipe length apparently used as the prime means for tuning. | | | Cottingham, J.P., "Acoustics of a symmetric free reed coupled to a pipe resonator," Proc. |
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http://www.public.coe.edu/~jcotting/ISMAjpc1-1.htm
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| | Pitch Bending Free Reed Instruments |
| | With the symmetric free reed, the resonator is especially necessary in order that the musical tone be heard at sufficient volume, whereas the asymmetric free reed is loud enough to be heard without a resonator. | | | As digression, we mention certain asian musical instruments that have at their heart free reeds as sound source. | | | For instance, one useful non-contact method of tone control acoustically couples the reed to an air chamber that presents an impedance mismatch to the reed. |
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http://www.bluesbox.biz/pages/3
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| | Articles - Free reed aerophone |
| | A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument where sound is produced as air passes a reed in a chamber, causing the reed to vibrate. | | | The oldest known free-reed instrument is the Laotian khene, widely accepted as the musical ancestor of the harmonica and accordion. | | | These air pulses initiate the audible vibrations perceived by the listener. |
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http://www.free-biz.org/articles/Free-reed_instrument
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| | Work: December 2003 Archives |
| | The instruments’ popularity grew, and evidence of their use throughout the U.S. by the end of World War I is documented in print and recordings of music from around the country. | | | Many musicologists still feel that “other” music is the realm of ethnomusicologists and folklorists, but this mindset, when combined with the ethnomusicological focus on music in the present day, results in a large section of world music history that is left unexamined. | | | The diatonic accordion, although popular throughout the country in the mid-19th century, was replaced with the more harmonically capable piano accordion throughout the north and coastal areas, where the instrument was used primarily in traditional music of recent European immigrants. |
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http://work.billtron.org/archives/2003_12.php
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| | The Classical Free-Reed, Inc. Taxonomy of Musical Instruments |
| | The diatonic instruments are limited to the tones of a standard major or minor scale without the chromatic intervals; therefore, diatonic instruments can play in only one key. | | | As noted above, the free-reed instruments can be classified according to their type of musical scale into two categories: diatonic and chromatic instruments, (*6) although some Oriental instruments can play only a pentatonic scale. | | | Most tongues of free-reeds are made from metal, but tongues of primitive free-reed instruments, like the naw, are made from cane. |
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http://www.ksanti.net/free-reed/description/taxonomy.html
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| | REED - LoveToKnow Article on REED |
| | The double reed adapted to a conical tube confers upon the latter the acoustic properties of the open pipe, whose wave-length is equal to that of the tube and which is capable of overblowing the octave and successive harmonics (theoretically). | | | In the musette, in the cornemuse used in concert with the hautbois de Poitou, and in the Neapolitan surdelina (see BAGPIPE), both chaunter and drones had double reeds. | | | Either a single or a double reed adapted to a cylindrical pipe converts it for all acoustic purposes into a closed pipe, in which the whole wavelength is twice the length of the tube, a node forming at the mouthpiece end. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/R/RE/REED.htm
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| | Free Reed Festival 2000 |
| | We've always found these instruments ideal for producing dance music and song accompaniment with bite, and we can safely claim to be the first to use free reeds as the main sound in Welsh music, going right back to our earliest albums in the late 1970s. | | | I remember the first instrument I started to learn on, a 26-key Jones Anglo-concertina which was rumored (without any justification) to have once belonged to Phil Tanner, the legendary Gower Nightingale. | | | It can't just be coincidence that the last three Welsh CDs to be released all focus, to one degree or another on free reeds. |
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http://www.rootsworld.com/freereed/2000/wales.html
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| | For their 'clarionet' concertinas, whose tone was intended to resemble that of the clarinet or oboe, Wheatstone's used steel reed tongues of a markedly fish-tail shape, which when combined with harmonically tuned reed chambers, did indeed have a marked effect in the tone of these instruments. | | | Upon the introduction of their 'Aeola' in 1898, Wheatstones devised a new 'long scale' format of reed bed, of slimmer, narrower form and with a proportionately longer reed tongue, which was considered to offer improved voicing, tone and attack. | | | The 'nails' are of various lengths and thicknesses, and were further 'tuned' by having their tips filed, so that when the nails are set into resonant vibration by a violin bow, each produces a different musical note and transmits its vibration loudly via the sound-box. |
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http://www.d-and-d.com/contributions/tina-history.html
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| | Free Reed Magazine |
| | Furthermore, enthusiasts all over the world are documenting the history of the concertina in their countries, and preserving and performing the music created for it. | | | Rare surviving stocks of Free Reed label vinyl LPs | | | He has gathered a unique archive of original Victorian concertina sheet music, dozens of period concert grade instruments, and from his converted bishop's castle near Glastonbury leads the Butleigh Players, an orchestra and chamber group researching and performing the high Victorian repertoire. |
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http://www.freedmus.demon.co.uk/conctv.htm
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| | Free Reed Instrument Care |
| | With piano Accordions care is needed when putting the instrument in its case to avoid catching the piano keys and lifting them. | | | At least the instrument will now sound in tune. | | | They really don't like this, the steel will rust, and the bellows fall apart. |
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http://www.hobgoblin-usa.com/info/freecare.htm
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| | Music: Instruments |
| | Modern musical instruments, transposition, concert pitch and best sounding range. | | | Photographs and audio samples of instruments from around the world, organized alphabetically, geographically, and by type. | | | Photographs, descriptions, and audio samples of traditional instruments and music-related images from the Iberian Peninsula. |
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http://www.games-directory.info/dir/Arts/Music/Instruments/index.cgi
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| | Rootster |
| | Historical Free Reed Recordings - Haka Widar has a Real Audio version of a different historical song every month, some crazy, some beautiful but all unique. | | | But any time of the year you can hear great music from arouns the world in the festival archives. | | | The Chemnitzer Concertina - Steve Litwin writes about the hsitory and music of Polka's Workhorse. |
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http://www.rootster.com/freereed
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| | Free Reed Festival 2000: |
| | Aside from the traditional music with which the accordion is linked, the Free Reed Fest will offer musicians from all over the world with an equally far-flung approach. | | | Now rootsworld.com is staging a festival to celebrate these lesser-known musical powerhouses. | | | RootsWorld (http//www.rootsworld.com), a sharezine, identifies itself as "a content-heavy site that focuses on the world's 'local' music, folk and folk-rooted music." It is an electronic periodical only, making its full content freely available. |
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http://www.rootsworld.com/freereed/2000/press.html
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| | WESTERN FREE REED INSTRUMENTS |
| | An instrument clearly resembling the Thai/Laotian khaen is depicted, although the description that goes along with it gives no indication that Mersenne knew that the instrument utilised an acoustic principle hitherto unknown in the West. | | | They only reason they sound at all is that they are coupled with pipes of an appropriate length and this acoustic coupling gives the Claviola a unique tone - more like that of a clarinet than a typical free reed instrument. | | | Uncovering fingerholes allowed selected reeds to sound, much in the manner of the suifukin, an instrument used for music education in early 20th century Japan. |
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http://www.patmissin.com/history/western.html
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| | Free Reed - Accordion, Melodeon, Concertina, Harmonica |
| | The instrument has a naturally rhythmic sound, and has been absorbed into traditional music worldwide. | | | The Piano Accordion first appeared about a hundred years ago and initially they were like a melodeon with a piano keyboard, and a limited number of basses. | | | 'Free Reed' is the term given to instruments which play a sound when air is pulled through reeds. |
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http://www.hobgoblin.com/american.htm
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| | Allan Atlas--Free-Reed Renaissance |
| | The site has news of upcoming concerts, and a listing of books, articles, recordings, and research material available at the Center's archives. | | | The CSFRI, part of the Doctoral Program in Music at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, is a resource for the scholarly study of all free-reed instruments (sheng, harmonica, accordion, etc.) and contains much of interest to concertinists. | | | It is written with an eye toward both the history of the instrument and how it has been played since Victorian times. |
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http://www.maccann-duet.com/atlas
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| | BUBL LINK: Wind instruments |
| | Includes reviews of bagpipe recordings, with sound clips requiring RealPlayer. | | | Provides details of his business of general musical instrument sales and manufacture, images of prototype concertinas, and others depicting the instrument's evolution over the years. | | | Collection of articles and essays featuring classical free-reed instruments and performers. |
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http://bubl.ac.uk/link/w/windinstruments.htm
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| | The Asian Free Reed |
| | Instruments of this type are based on the principle of a free vibrating reed, unlike the single beating reed of the clarinet or saxophone, and likewise unlike the double reed instruments like the Western oboe, or the Indian shahnai and Chinese sona. | | | The klui of Thailand is an interesting and unique example of a free reed functioning as the sound generator for a flute. | | | The principle of the free reed appears to have had its inception in Asia and after spreading there was subsequently introduced into with West where it developed into such instruments as the harmonica, the accordion, the harmonium and the free reed organ. |
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http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/courses/asian/freereed.html
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| | reed at CarsWizz.com |
| | I hope that the information on these pages will help you understand more about double reed instruments and more... | | | a vehicle sits at a dealership, the better the deal a savvy consumer can get for that vehicle," states Phil Reed, author of "Edmunds.com's Strategies for Smart Car Buyers." Previous model year vehicles are making up an increasingly high percentage of new vehicle sales late in the calendar year. | | | The Free-Reed Journal Articles and Essays Featuring Classical Free-Reed Instruments and Performers... |
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http://www.carswizz.com/reed.html
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| | asian instruments |
| | The Classical Free-Reed, Inc. History of the Free-Reed Instruments in Classical Music Asian Free-Reed Instruments by Henry Doktorski (copyright 2000) Part Three: The Laotian Khaen Illustration 16: The... | | | The Classical Free-Reed, Inc. History of the Free-Reed Instruments in Classical Music Asian Free-Reed Instruments by Henry Doktorski (copyright 2000) Part One: The Chinese Shêng Illustration 1: The... | | | Machinery and Industrial Supplies, Measuring Instruments, Metals and Hardware, Optical and Cameras... |
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http://www.intellectualoutcastscafe.com/articles/asian-instruments.html
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| | Concertinas, Accordians, Free Reed Instruments - Greenwich Music Shop |
| | Concertinas, Accordians, Free Reed Instruments - Greenwich Music Shop | | | Greenwich Music Shop, 102 South Street, London SE10 8UN | | | BB - bone buttons, MB - metal buttons, WE - wooden ends, ME - metal ends, 5F or 6F - 5 or 6 fold bellows, SR - steel reeds, BR - brass reeds, CP - concert pitch. |
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http://www.greenwichmusicshop.co.uk/free_reed.htm
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| | Center for the Study of Free-Reed Instruments |
| | In addition, CSFRI is in the process of establishing a research archive of primary and secondary materials (music, recordings, books, articles, etc.) pertaining to free-reed instruments, with the aim of making its collection accessible to those interested in the subject. | | | The jewel of the collection is The Guido Deiro Archive, donated to the Center by Count Guido Roberto Deiro in March 2001. |
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http://web.gc.cuny.edu/freereed/newsite
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