"Tuneful Farts and The Zoomtube": Woodwind

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🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

GIRD YOUR LITERAL AND PROVERBIAL LOINS PEOPLE, 'CAUSE IT'S TIME TO TALK ABOUT SOME TUBES WITH HOLES IN THEM AND ALSO WIND. AND ALSO KENNY G. Yes you heard me right, in this episode we shoot the woodwindy breeze, and that breeze is FUUUUH-RESH!?! Enjoy!

Music Featured in this Episode:

"Serenade in B Flat K, 361. "Gran Partita": 3. Adagio" - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L.86" - Claude Debussy

"Fantasia for Soprano Saxaphone, 3 Horns and String Orchestra: 3. Très Animé" - Heitor Villa-Lobos

"Peer Gynt, Op. 23 - Incidental Music: No. 8. In the Hall of the Mountain King" - Edvard Grieg

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 32 of that classical podcast. This time,
0:10.0	woodwind.
0:14.0	Hello! Woodwind. Hello.
0:15.0	Hello.
0:16.0	My name's Chris Bland.
0:17.0	And my name's Kelly Harlock.
0:18.0	And you're listening to episode 32 of that classical podcast.
0:21.0	Welcome everybody.
0:22.0	Hello. Today we're going to talk about
0:24.1	woodwind. Chris what are that? Woodwind it's made of wood and you blow wind through it the end no so it's one of the family of instruments
0:36.1	so previously we talked about strings we've talked about the piano you got your brass and everything
0:40.6	yeah basically it's the instrument where you blow in one end
0:43.4	sound comes out the other that isn't brass. They don't actually have to be made
0:48.0	out of wood, they can be made out of metal too. So it's different from brass in the way the sound is produced. So with a brass instrument, you
0:56.8	purse your lips and blow a raspberry and that sort of echoes around the instrument.
1:00.3	Yeah, you literally blow a raspy, don't you? Yeah it's amazing. Sorry I just I've always been fascinated by that.
1:06.2	Does it make your lips really tired? Tweet us. If you're a brass player let us know.
1:10.8	We don't know. But the way the sound is produced in a woodwind instrument
1:14.8	is that there's a stream of air that's split on a sharp edge and that's what produces the
1:19.4	sound. So for example on a flute you blow and we'll go on to explain more about individual instruments later in the episode
1:26.3	But a flute the stream of air that comes out is split on the sharp edge of the mouth hole on
1:32.1	Reed instruments so like a clarinet or a of the
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