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favorite woodwind?

  • Clarinets ( Bb and A, and basset )

    Votes: 63 21.3%
  • Low clarinets ( bass, basset horn, contrabass )

    Votes: 13 4.4%
  • High clarinets ( D, Eb and Ab )

    Votes: 2 0.7%
  • Oboe ( and oboe d'amore )

    Votes: 64 21.6%
  • Saxophones ( saxophones and tarogato )

    Votes: 27 9.1%
  • Bassoons

    Votes: 44 14.9%
  • Flute ( and flute family )

    Votes: 41 13.9%
  • Cor anglais-English horn

    Votes: 24 8.1%
  • Contrabassoon

    Votes: 6 2.0%
  • Other ( do tell! )

    Votes: 12 4.1%

Favorite wind instrument

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#1 · (Edited)
What is your favorite woodwind instrument? :)
 
#69 ·
I love the oboe. That kind of nasally, but flowing tone it produces is just beautiful. I would really like to learn how to play one, but the instrument itself is very expensive.
 
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#74 ·
Bassoon

Yes,

It is a very hard choice. I love my recordings of Sharon Kam on the Clarinet. But Karen Geoghegan on the Bassoon opened up a whole new world to me I never knew could exist.
 
#87 ·
Oboe, the sound is so delicate and sweet.

Clarinet is an instrument that I love in certain contexts. I think the clarinet writing in Prokofievs 5th is amazing.
 
#91 ·
I voted for flute, since I'm a flutist and love the instrument anyhow, but will always have the tendency from now on to rebel. I would have voted for clarinet, I think it has a wonderful timbre, and has a deeper emotion than flute. But flutes have the ability to "sing" more than any other instrument. :)
 
#94 ·
I've been playing alto sax for 28 years. While the other kids at school were taking up drums and guitar with Van Halen and John Bonham as their role models I was a precocious freak more inspired by my dad's collection of Art Pepper and Stan Getz albums and I've played semi-pro on and off ever since. Still my fave of all instruments not just wind, with soprano sax, tenor sax not far behind.
 
#96 ·
I didn't used to like the soprano as much as tenor and alto, and it seemed to be too clsely connected to smooth jazz, but John Coltrane, Anthony Braxton, Gary Bartz, John Surman and Dave Liebman changed my mind. Its sound is like an alto crossed with a suona or zurna, which I think gives it a inherent Eastern/Asian sound.

Tenor sax is probably my favourite. I think it has the greatest dynamic range, with an incredibly elegent pristine sound at one extreme and diaphragm busting honks and howls at the other. Saying that, the alto and tenor are much closer in timbre than the soprano so either could work well in most situations.

Soprano masterclass:


 
#97 ·
The clarinets (Bb and A) are enjoyable over a broad range of music. I don't get tired of hearing it well played as long as there isn't much altissimo.

In short doses, maybe 10 minutes max, and in material it fits, I love the sounds the English horn makes in it's low and mid registers.

I enjoy the alto sax in jazz - but this isn't a jazz forum.


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