Musical wind instruments : a history of the wind instruments used in European orchestras and wind-bands from the later middle ages up to the present time / by Adam Carse ; with 30 photographic plates showing 183 instruments, 41 drawings and diagrams, and 11 fingering charts.

Author/creator Carse, Adam
Format Musical Score
Publication InfoLondon : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1939.
Descriptionxv, 381 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Wind instruments.

Contents Classification of wind instruments -- Sound generators and resonators -- Practical acoustics -- The shortening-hole system of the wood-wind instruments -- The lengthening slide and valve systems of the brass instruments -- Summary of wind instruments -- The mechanics of wood-wind instruments. Open and closed keys ; Key protections ; Flat and cupped keys ; Plugs ; Hinged keys ; Ring-keys ; Key mounts ; Rings, blocks, saddles, pillars ; Horizontal rod-axle ; Springs ; Joints ; Tuning devices -- The mechanics of brass instruments. Piston and rotary valves ; History ; Box valve ; Schubventil ; Berliner-pumpen ; Vienna valve ; Perinet valve ; Rotary valve ; Other valves ; Compensation devices ; Tuning-slides and bits ; Shanks and crooks -- The transverse flute. The keyless flute ; The one-keyed conical flute ; 4- to 8-keyed flutes ; The Boehm flute ; Smaller and larger flutes ; Piccolo and bass flutes -- Whistle flutes. Recorders ; Flageolets ; Tabor-pipe ; Double and triple flageolets -- The oboe. Shawms (pommer, bombard) ; Krumhorn ; Rauschpfeifen ; Bassanelli and Schreierpfeifen ; 18th-century oboe ; 19th-century oboe ; Oboe d'amore ; Tenor oboe, cor anglais ; Bass or baritone oboes ; Heckelphone -- The clarinet. Chalumeau ; 18th-century clarinet ; 19th-century clarinet ; 13-keyed clarinet ; Boehm clarinet ; Liebesklarinette ; Alto-tenor clarinets ; Basset-horn ; Bass clarinet ; Contrabass clarinet -- The saxophone. Alto-fagotto ; Saxophone family ; Octavin ; Heckelphon-klarinette ; Heckelklarina ; Tarogato -- The bassoon. Phagotum ; One-piece bassoon ; 18th-century bassoon ; 19th-century bassoon ; French and German bassoons ; Double bassoon ; Smaller bassoons ; Sarrusophone ; Sordune and kindred instruments ; Racket and Tartold -- The horn. Closely-coiled horns ; Open-hooped horns ; Cor de chasse, Waldhorn ; Valve horns ; French and German horns -- The trumpet. Natural trumpet ; Keyed trumpet ; Stopping trumpet ; Slide trumpet ; Valve trumpet -- The cornet. Cornet-a-pistons ; Cornopean -- The trombone. Sackbut ; Slide trombone ; Valve trombone -- The cornett. Serpent, bass-horn, keyed bugle and Ophicleide -- Bugle-horns. Flugelhorn ; Tenor horn ; Baritone and euphonium ; Tuba and bombardon ; Saxhorns and other group-instruments.
Bibliography noteBibliography: pages 317-324.
LCCN 39031808