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unusual facts about wind instruments



Santa Ana Winds Youth Band

The band's name was derived from the Santa Ana winds weather pattern, and is a reference to the fact that the many performers use wind instruments.


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Ante Grgin

Grgin is a full professor of clarinet and chair of the Department of Wind Instruments at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where he has been teaching since 1995, and at the Faculty of Arts in Niš.

Célestin Lavigueur

Born in Quebec City, Lower Canada, Lavigueur taught piano, violin, and wind instruments at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1853 to 1881.

Dissidenten

Around 1981, "Embryo's Dissidenten" were founded in India by Friedemann "Friedo" Josch (b 21 July 1952, Mainz, wind instruments, keyboards) and former Embryo band members Uwe "Uve" Müllrich (b 7 December 1947, Rügen, bass, oud, guitar, vocals) and Michael Wehmeyer (keyboards,piano).

Intraocular pressure

The range of intraoral pressure involved in various classes of ethnic wind instruments, such as Native American flutes, has been shown to be generally lower than Western classical wind instruments.

Māori music

Some of the smaller wind instruments were also sung into, and the sound of the poi (raupo ball swung on the end of a flax cord) provided a rhythmic accompaniment to waiata poi.

National String Instrument Corporation

The company was formed by John Dopyera, the luthier who invented the resonator, and George Beauchamp, a steel guitar player who had suggested to Dopyera the need for a guitar loud enough to play a melody over brass and other wind instruments.

New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments

Toop was a music writer, broadcaster and a member of the London Musicians Collective with a particular interest in ethnic percussion and home made wind instruments.

Raul Paz

a renowned arts academy in Havana : violin, musical theory, wind instruments, singing, counterpoint, and conducting.

Supersister

The remaining crew, together with new members Charlie Mariano (wind instruments) and Herman van Boeyen (drums) released the album Iskander in 1973, which is a jazz-rock oriented concept album based upon the life of Alexander the Great.

Zendeko

They have collaborated with accomplished composers and musicians which include professional drummer Peter Erskine, composer/ musician Richard Gibbs and the late Masakazu Yoshizawa, who was also their mentor in Japanese wind instruments.