Aerophones
Aerophones or wind instruments produce sound by the means of vibrating air. In free aerophones, the vibrating air is free, not in a closed tube or body. The rest of aerophones have an air tube or container and have different systems to activate it; flutes (with a bevel or sharp edge), aerophones with reeds (single or double) and lip vibration instruments (trumpet type) are distinguished.
In the classification of the German musicologists Erich von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, aerophones make up the fourth of the five groups of instruments.
Aerophones in Basque traditional music
Flutes
Edge blown, fipple flutes:
One hand:
Two hands:
Traverse:
Others:
- Ocarina
- Txulubita (apricot kernel)
- Txulubita (tin)
- Txulubita (slide whistle)
- Castrator's flute, Pan pipe
Toys:
Single reed
Double reed
Bagpipes (xirolarruak)
Free reed
Lip vibration
Natural:
Chromatic:
Free aerophones