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Contents 1 amplification 2 Other forms of wind instruments 3 Circular breathing? 4 Merge with Wind instrument 5 Merge from Bell of a wind instrument 6 i think we should just merge it 7 flute made out of brass

[edit] amplification

please explain scientifically how the sound is "amplified" by a passive piece of wood or passive metal bell on a horn or phonograph. i don't understand how this works. Does it just increase the surface area of the vibrating object, allowing it to move more air with the same amount of energy, increasing the efficiency of vibrational energy to acoustic energy transfer? not actually "amplifying" the sound by adding energy into the system? - Omegatron 02:15, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Other forms of wind instruments

How about something like the ocarina ("sweet potato")? They are usually made of plastic today I guess, but they probably were fired clay of some kind in the beginning, no? There are terra-cotta whistles, so it seems likely that there may be more complicated musical instruments made this way.P0M 23:56, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Circular breathing?

I see little applicability for the tacked on reference to 'circular breathing' in reference to brass instruments. It creates a run-on sentence, and doesn't really make sense in context. Even out of context, most brass players never use circular breathing. -- Kysh

[edit] Merge with Wind instrument

• Opposition: I would argue that this topic should not be merged with wind instrument, for two reasons:
  • Some percussion instruments are aerophones. It would make as much (or as little) sense to merge this topic with percussion instruments as it would to merge it with wind instruments.
  • And Wikipedia currently has pages devoted to the other object types (idiophones, chordophones, etc.) so it would therefore appear logical to keep the topic of "aerophones" distinct.

--Regards. 00:58, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge from Bell of a wind instrument

I don't think we need separate pages for the parts of a wind instrument, at least until we have a general discussion of them here, and we don't. This article doesn't even mention the bell yet. —Keenan Pepper 05:00, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] i think we should just merge it

i think that we should merge it anyway with the wind instruments article. we could make a new section/title for the bell article

[edit] flute made out of brass

"For example, the saxophone, flute, and metal clarinet are all typically made of brass" Flutes are not typically made of brass. They are sometimes made of brass, but also silver, gold, and other metals.