What is the name of the metal part of some woodwinds that extends to the player's mouth?

BungeeAZ

The mouthpiece. Although a flute is made of metal, it is considered a woodwind (most likely because it does not have valves as a brass instrument does). Most other mouthpieces in the woodwind family have a small piece of wood attached to the mouthpiece called a reed. Reeds are broken down into two families. Single reed instruments include the saxaphone and clarinet. Double reed instruments include the oboe, bassoon and contra bassoon. The aforementioned flute does not have a reed. In addition, you don't insert a flute into your mouth, you blow across the top to make your sound. Nov 03 06, 8:48 AM

skysmom65

But what is the name of the metal part that extends to the player's mouth? The mouthpiece has a name...what is it? Nov 03 06, 9:04 AM

BungeeAZ

http://musiced.about.com/od/beginnersguide/a/partsofflute.htm This website might help you as far as a flute is concerned because a flute is a metal woodwind instrument. Nov 03 06, 9:36 AM

What-A-Mess

The only info I could find is as follows...... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocal Which is the part of a Bassoon that extends toward the mouth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassoon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassoon Nov 03 06, 12:37 PM

Baloo55th

When playing the bass recorder, I used to call it the extension. The main distinction between 'woodwind' and 'brass' is that in woodwind the vibration is caused by the instrument, and in brass it is caused by the player. Reed instruments have one or two shaped pieces of bamboo or suchlike that vibrate when air is blown over them, flute family instruments work by the impact of the blown air striking an edge - in the transverse flute this is the edge of the hole, in the recorders, whistles and fluiers it is a sharp edge inside - which causes the vibration. You can blow a brass instrument all day and not get a sound out of it unless you position your lips to cause a vibration when the air passes them. Oh, and flutes can be metal, wooden or bamboo or even plastic, while recorders (apart from those played by people like Piers Adams) are most commonly plastic; they are still 'woodwind'. Nov 03 06, 1:39 PM

helenasykes

reid? Nov 04 06, 3:49 PM

What-A-Mess

BOCAL. Nov 04 06, 8:40 PM

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