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Contest celebrates Yamaha's ten millionth wind instrument.(INDUSTRY FOREFRONT)
; ...milestone production of its ten millionth wind instrument with an essay contest to thank the...Yamaha is the world's number-one wind instrument manufacturer, leading the industry...cutting-edge production technology. The first wind instrument to bear the Yamaha name, a trumpet... Read more
Tune In to a New Worry?
; ...asked how to make a sick student's wind instrument safe to issue to another student...service he calls MaestroMD. "Does your wind instrument threaten your health?" reads the pitch...survive and grow inside a musical wind instrument." Those studies -- on a small number... Read more
Metz new Yamaha product specialist.
; ...Division has appointed Jim Metz as wind instrument product specialist. In this newly...position he will work with Kurt Witt, wind instrument product manager, to focus on internal...and dealer service for all Yamaha wind instrument accessories. An Indiana native, Metz... Read more
Fed: Surgeons play the anus like a wind instrument
; ...Fed: Surgeons play the anus like a wind instrument By Kylie Walker, National Medical...skillfully they can almost play it like a wind instrument. British researchers are researching...just about play the bottom like a wind instrument." Botox relaxes the muscles around... Read more
Ocarina a prelude to more advanced music.(Features)
; ...musicians by learning to play the ocarina - an eggshaped wind instrument with finger holes. Pupils aged six to eight, in years two...music. Those who enjoy it most get the chance to take up a wind instrument when they reach year four, with most opting for flute, clarinet... Read more
U.S. dealers tour Czech instrument plants. (Global News).
; A GROUP OF LEADING U.S. music retailers toured the Amati wind instrument and Strunal string factories in the Czech Republic. The...ended at the Frankfurt Musikmesse. Amati is the largest wind instrument manufacturer in the Czech Republic and Strunal is the country... Read more
Blown away... Breath of fresh air: Recovered asthmatic David in his pipers regalia.
; ...Mrs Armour, a community matron, had read that playing a wind instrument couldhelp people with breathing problems. Her Glasgow-born...any exercise. Then Iremembered reading years ago that a wind instrument c a n r e a l l y h e l p ap e r s o n s breathing. We asked... Read more
Piping hot, THE VIETNAM INVESTMENT REVIEW
; ...the subtle sound of an eerie wind instrument floating above the cacophony of the marketplace. The wind instrument that creates this peculiar sound...festivities based around the unusual wind instrument. Traditionally played only by... Read more
COMPOSER TO PLAY WORKS FEATURING COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY.(LIFE)
; ...March 15 at UNCG's Hart Recital Hall. Using an electronic wind instrument and interactive computer, Mahin will perform his compositions...performers since 1985 and performed music for electronic wind instrument, interactive computer and synthesizers since 1991. He is... Read more
RUNNING HOT & COLD: SOME HARD-CORE JOGGERS SEE WIND CHILL AS CHALLENGE
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wind instrument
in music, any instrument whose tone is...means. Other wind instruments are blown by...woodwinds and the brass winds, or brasses...mouthpieces (see reed instrument ). The brass winds include...of reeds. The wind passage of a wind instrument is called the...Woodwind ... Read more
wind instrument
wind instrument Musical instrument that is sounded by blowing, which sets the air inside it vibrating. Wind instruments may be classified into two types: woodwind and brass . Read more
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wind in·stru·ment / wind / • n. a musical instrument in which sound is produced by the vibration of air, typically by the player blowing into the instrument. ∎  a woodwind instrument as distinct from a brass instrument. Read more
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wind instruments. Those mus. instrs. in which sound...woodwind (not all made of wood) and brass (not all made of brass), e.g. fl., picc., ob., cl., bn...tuba, among latter. An org. is not a wind instr. in the sense defined here... Read more

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