September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
Renaissance instruments were categorized into some familiar families: woodwinds, brass, stings, and percussion.
Meet the Woodwinds
Examples include the shawn, reedpipe, hornpipe, bagpipe/bladderpipe, panpipe, and recorder. In the woodwind instruments of the Renaissance, holes were simply drilled into the wood at a place easy for hand placement, without regard to pitch irregularities, so players had to compensate on their own.
Meet the Brass
Examples include the slide trumpet, cornett, trumpet, and sackbut. Brass instruments in the 1400s were actually very ...
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