Woodwind Musical Instruments

In woodwind instruments, the player either causes a reed to vibrate, which agitates the column of air (as in a saxophone, clarinet, oboe or duduk); blows over a fipple, across an open hole against an edge (as in a recorder or ocarina), or blows across the edge of an open hole (as in a flute).

In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, wind instruments are classed as aerophones.