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extreme-technicality · 2 years ago

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Hi, former band kid here to tell you that saxophones are classified as woodwinds because they have reeds to help direct and produce the sound instead of the simple mouthpiece brass instruments have - saxophones, clarinets, etc. are all held in the mouth, while trumpets or French horns are played by puckering up and blowing. The notable exception to the “woodwinds have reeds” rule is the flute, but they’re still considered woodwinds because before metal became widely available and manufacturable, flutes were made out of wood.

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#‘oh but the metal to wood ratio—’ okay And. fucking And.#the defining feature of a saxophone is the reed because without a proper reed you’re getting NOTHING from that fuckin instrument #also p much all woodwinds are composed of separate pieces that you stick together #and those pieces have cork padding #brass instruments are fully metal. there are NO wood or organic bits in brass instruments At All #why aren’t woodwinds made out of Actual Wood anymore? well ysee.#human breath has water in it. right. so Every Time It Gets Played it gets wet.#and wood rots when it gets wet. right.#plus it’s easier to make a good quality instrument out of easily-replicable metal than wood #so why keep the reeds? show me the metal that can be That Thin against someone’s tongue WITHOUT slicing it open and while ALSO #getting more flexible while wet.#you can’t because That’s Not How Metal Works. also Metal Rusts and idk about y’all but I don’t want rusty metal in my goddamn mouth #anyway this Ted talk brought to you by a clarinetist #man I miss having a clarinet. I’ve got a box of fuckin reeds but no clarinet for them.

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