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The family of musical instruments known as the woodwinds includes reed instruments like the clarinet and oboe. It also includes edge-tone instruments like the recorder and flute. Unlike the brass instruments, which are sealed systems of plumbing terminated by a bell where all the sound comes out, the woodwinds have tone holes, and much of the sound is radiated by these tone holes.
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Hartmann, W.M. (2013). Woodwind Instruments. In: Principles of Musical Acoustics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6786-1_24
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