BASSOON INSTRMENT

BASSOON INSTRMENT

The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 1800, the bassoon figures prominently in orchstral, concert band and chamber music literature. The bassoon is a non-transposing instrument known for its distinctive tone color, wide range, variety of character, and agility. Listeners often compare its warm, dark reedy timbre to that of a male baritone voice.

HAWAIIAN GUITAR

HAWAIIAN GUITAR

UKULELE a small four-stringed guitar that developed in Hawaii in the 19th century from the Portuguese *machete, which was brought there by sailors. It is a different instrument, however, from the HAWAIIAN GUITAR. Shaped much like classical guitar but only half as large, the ukulele has four strings, today usually of nylon, and a fingerboard provided with frets. The strings, usually tuned either A D F# B or G C E A, are plucked with the fingers or with a small plectrum. The ukulele is used almost wholly to accompany the singing of popular songs or folk songs. Music for ukulele is often written in a kind of tablature that consists of a drawing of the fingerboard, showing the stopping positions required to produce the desired chords. It is used in dance music and is closely related to the *banjo.

THE LONE RANGER ON THE ACCORDION; UNBELIEVABLE

THE LONE RANGER ON THE ACCORDION; UNBELIEVABLE.

What is an accordion instrument?
A musical instrument that consists of two bowlike boards connected by a folding bellows. The player hangs the instrument around his neck. The board near his right hand is fitted with a keyboard like that of a piano, on which he plays melody notes; the board near his left hand has buttons for playing chords and bass notes. Inside the boards are pairs of flat, flexible tongues, called reeds. Each reed vibrates and sounds a single tone whose pitch depends on the reed's length and thickness. Opening and closing the bellows creates a flow of air that makes the reeds vibrate and therefore produce a sound. One of each pair of reeds sounds when the bellows are pushed together, and the other sounds when they are drawn apart. The keys and buttons open valves to admit air to the desired pairs of reeds. In some accordions the two reeds of a pair are tuned to sound adjacent tones of the chromatic scale (C and C-sharp, for example), so that one note sounds when the bellows are pushced and a different onw when they are pulled. In most modern accordions, however, the two reeds of pair are tuned to the same tone.




I played the accordion during my school time. I enjoyed playing. Sometime when i am free i still played it.