"Boston Musical Instrument Company. This change coincided with a relocation to 51 Chardon Street in Boston. Two years later the company was purchased by Cundy-Bettony which continued to build instruments in the Boston name until 1928. The Boston Musical Instrument Manufactury/Company was a producer of traditional instruments for brass band. The 1869 catalog shows a full line of such instruments including the traditional cornets in E-flat and B-flat, E-flat Alto horn and horn, B-flat tenor, B-flat baritone, B-flat valve trombone and slide trombone, and tubas in B-flat and E-flat. Slide cornet was another option. The company also offered the full"
"Music box A music box or musical box is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or ""lamellae"") of a steel comb. They were developed from musical snuff boxes of the 18th century and called ""carillons à musique"" (French for ""chimes of music""). Some of the more complex boxes also contain a tiny drum and/or bells in addition to the metal comb. The original snuff boxes were tiny containers which could fit into a gentleman's waistcoat pocket. The"
"Glockenspiel A glockenspiel ( or , ""Glocken"": bells and ""Spiel"": set) is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, thus making it a metallophone. The glockenspiel, moreover, is usually smaller and higher in pitch. In German, a carillon is also called a ""Glockenspiel"", while in French, the glockenspiel is often called a ""carillon"". In music scores the glockenspiel is sometimes designated by"
"Paixiao [[File:Shakuhachi and Paixiao of theTang Dynasty 2011-07.JPG|alt=Two wooden wind instruments in a glass display case. The one on the right, the paixiao, is decorated with an image of a flower and leaves.|thumb|200x200px|Example of a Paixiao (right). The instrument to the left of the paixiao may be a [[Xiao]]] The paixiao (traditional: [[wiktionary:排簫|排簫]]; simplified: [[wiktionary:排箫|排箫]]; [[pinyin]]: ""páixiāo""; also pái xiāo, pai-hsiao, pronounced ) is an ancient [[China|Chinese]] wind [[List of traditional Chinese musical instruments|instrument]], a form of [[Pan flute]]. A major difference between the Chinese Paixiao and the panpipes used in European and South American traditions, is that at the"
"Music of France The music of France reflects a diverse array of styles. In the field of classical music, France has produced a number of prominent romantic composers, while folk and popular music have seen the rise of the chanson and cabaret style. The earliest known sound recording device in the world, the phonautograph, was patented in France by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1857. France is also the 5th largest market by value in the world, and its music industry has produced many internationally renowned artists, especially in the nouvelle chanson and electronic music. French music history dates back"
"Cromorne Cromorne is a French woodwind reed instrument of uncertain identity, used in the early Baroque period in French court music. The name is sometimes confused with the similar-sounding name crumhorn, a musical woodwind instrument probably of different design, called ""tournebout"" by French theorists in the 17th century (; ). By contrast, the crumhorn (also known by names including ""crum horn"", ""crumm horn"", ""Krummhorn"", ""Krummpfeife"", ""Kumbhorn"", ""cornamuto torto"", and ""piva torto"") is a capped double-reed instrument usually shaped like a letter ""J"" and possessing a rather small melodic range spanning a ninth (i.e. just over an octave) unless extended downward"
"Pinpeat The pinpeat () orchestra or musical ensemble performs the ceremonial music of the royal courts and temples of Cambodia. The orchestra consists of approximately nine or ten instruments, mainly wind and percussion (including several varieties of xylophone and drums). It accompanies court dances, masked plays, shadow plays, and religious ceremonies. The pinpeat is analogous to the piphat ensemble of Thailand. According to Chuon Nath's Khmer dictionary, the 'pinpeat' is composed of the Sanskrit terms vina () referring to a chapey which was formerly used as the premiere instrument in this ensemble and vadya () referring to an ensemble of"
"of America in early 2009, and performed at festivals in Canada and France. The Magic Pipe, also known by his close friends as 'The Broken Bowflex', is a homemade, electronically rigged pair of machined aluminum pipes (previously steel in its first incarnation), connected by adjustable phosphorus bronze joints, with each pipe hosting an orchestral bass string. The harp-shaped instrument is roughly seven feet tall and features 13 trigger points, which can be mapped to various musical sound effects or samples. The front pipe uses a low C string, while the rear pipe's string is used to achieve more tenor ranged"
"window and onto the labium (lip) where the stream is split, giving rise to a musical sound. Finally, there is the body (or bodies, in a double or triple flageolet) which contains the finger holes and keys. The beak, windway and barrel do not contribute to sound production and the instrument can be played if these parts are missing. Flageolet The flageolet is a woodwind instrument and a member of the fipple flute family. Its invention was erroneously ascribed to the 16th-century Sieur Juvigny in 1581. There are two basic forms of the instrument: the French, having four finger holes"
"Eunuch flute The eunuch flute, or onion flute, or mirliton (Fr. ""flûte eunuque, flûte à l'oignon"" and ""mirliton""; Ger. ""Zwiebelflöte"") is a musical instrument of the woodwind family used during the 16th and 17th centuries, producing music akin to the comb-music of the nursery, and still manufactured as a toy (""mirliton""). The eunuch flute consists of a wooden tube widening out slightly to form a bell. The upper end of the tube is closed by means of a very fine membrane similar to an onion skin stretched across the aperture like the vellum of a drum. The mouthpiece, a simple"
"revived since then and the current versions are based on Chinese pipa, including one with five-strings. Pipa The pipa () is a four-stringed Chinese musical instrument, belonging to the plucked category of instruments. Sometimes called the Chinese lute, the instrument has a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets ranging from 12 to 26. Another Chinese four-string plucked lute is the liuqin, which looks like a smaller version of the pipa. The pear-shaped instrument may have existed in China as early as the Han dynasty, and although historically the term ""pipa"" was once used to refer to a"
"French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the ""horn"" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands. A musician who plays a French horn is known as a horn player or hornist. Pitch is controlled through the combination of the following factors: speed of air through the instrument (controlled by the player's lungs and thoracic diaphragm); diameter and tension of"
"Chalumeau The chalumeau (; ; plural chalumeaux) is a single-reed woodwind instrument of the late baroque and early classical eras. The chalumeau is a folk instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day clarinet. It has a cylindrical bore with eight tone holes (seven in front and one in back for the thumb) and a broad mouthpiece with a single heteroglot reed (""i.e."" not a continuous part of the instrument's body) made of cane. Similar to the clarinet, the chalumeau overblows a twelfth. The word ""chalumeau"" first begins to appear in writing during the 1630s, but may have been in"
"Keyboard glockenspiel The keyboard glockenspiel (French: ""jeu de timbre"") or organ glockenspiel is an instrument consisting of a glockenspiel operated by a piano keyboard. It was first used by George Frideric Handel in the oratorio ""Saul"" (1739). It was also used in the 1739 revivals of his ""Il Trionfo del Tempo"" and ""Acis and Galatea"", and the next year in ""L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato"". Half a century later, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart employed a ""strumento d’acciaio"" in ""The Magic Flute"" (1791) to represent Papageno's magic bells, and this instrument is believed to have been a keyboard glockenspiel. This part"
"Glass harp A glass harp (also called musical glasses, singing glasses, angelic organ, verrilion or ghost fiddle) is a musical instrument made of upright wine glasses. It is played by running moistened or chalked fingers around the rim of the glasses. Each glass is tuned to a different pitch, either by grinding each goblet to the specified pitch, in which case the tuning is invariable, or by filling the glass with water until the desired pitch is achieved. Musical glasses were documented in Persia in the 14th century. The glass harp was created in 1741 by Irishman Richard Pockrich, who"
"French electronic music French electronic music, a panorama of French music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. Notable early French artists and composers in electronic music include Maurice Martenot, the inventor of the Ondes Martenot in 1928, and Pierre Schaeffer, the developer of the musique concrète in 1948. Among the famous contemporary artists include Jean-Michel Jarre, Air, Daft Punk, Justice and M83. The earliest known sound recording device was the phonautograph, patented in 1857 by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. In 1928, the Ondes Martenot was invented by Maurice Martenot, who debuted it in Paris."
"Bladder fiddle The bladder fiddle (also known as bumbass or poispil) is a folk instrument used throughout Europe. The instrument was a simple large monochord made with a long stick, a thick gut string, and a pig's bladder. It is bowed with either a notched stick or a horsehair bow. It is known under different names; in Germany it was called the bumbass, in France the ""basse de Flandre"", and in England a drone, ""drone and string"" or bladder fiddle. In Germany sometimes a bell or cymbal was added to the top for decoration or additional sound. In England it"
"France, adds Mersennus, and they had the advantage over other kinds of reproducing more nearly the sound of the voice. The Irish writer Samuel Beckett wrote a series of fifty-nine small poems in French called mirlitonnades after the instrument. The eunuch flute's sound highly resembles a kazoo. The eunuch flute, unlike a kazoo, is held horizontally against the mouth while the user vocalizes into the aperture. Eunuch flute The eunuch flute, or onion flute, or mirliton (Fr. ""flûte eunuque, flûte à l'oignon"" and ""mirliton""; Ger. ""Zwiebelflöte"") is a musical instrument of the woodwind family used during the 16th and 17th"
"Glass harmonica The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica (derived from , ""harmonia"", the Greek word for harmony), is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction (instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones). The name ""glass harmonica"" (also ""glass armonica"", ""glassharmonica""; ""harmonica de verre"", ""harmonica de Franklin"", ""armonica de verre"", or just ""harmonica"" in French; ""Glasharmonika"" in German; ""harmonica"" in Dutch) refers today to any instrument played"
"a ""Stahlspiel"" or ""Militär-Glockenspiel"". The all-percussion Drum and lyre corps in the Philippines uses this as a main instrument. Glockenspiel A glockenspiel ( or , ""Glocken"": bells and ""Spiel"": set) is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, thus making it a metallophone. The glockenspiel, moreover, is usually smaller and higher in pitch. In German, a carillon is also called a ""Glockenspiel"","
"their own names, such as the Chinese ""guban"", Japanese ""Hyoshigi"", or the Korean ""bak"". In the classical music of Thailand, a similar instrument is called ""krap"". In India cooking tongs or चिमटा itself is often used to provide rhythm while singing religious hymns in many cultures (sometimes tongs made specifically for the purpose are also equipped with bells). In Vietnam, the coin clapper called ""sinh tiền"" is widely used. In medieval French music, clappers called ""tablettes"" or ""cliquettes"" were used. In the Western symphony orchestra, a clapper called the whip (also called slapstick) is occasionally used in the percussion section."
"Kit violin The kit violin, dancing master's kit, or kit, is a stringed instrument. It is essentially a very small violin, designed to fit in a pocket – hence its other common name, the pochette (French for ""small pocket""). It was used by dance masters in royal courts and other places of nobility, as well as by street musicians until around the 18th century. Occasionally, the rebec was used in the same way. Several are called for (as ""violini piccoli alla francese"" – small French violins) in Monteverdi's 1607 ""Orfeo"". The word ""kit"" probably arose from an abbreviation of the"
"Harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. There are many types of harmonica, including diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, octave, orchestral, and bass versions. A harmonica is played by using the mouth (lips and tongue) to direct air into or out of one or more holes along a mouthpiece. Behind each hole is a chamber containing at least one reed. A harmonica reed is a flat elongated spring typically made of"
"Up)"". Couesnophone The couesnophone, also known as the goofus or queenophone, is a free-reed musical instrument resembling a saxophone. Its reeds vibrate when the desired keys are activated and the player blows through a tube. ""Best described as a mouth-blown accordion,"" ""it sounded like a cross between a harmonica and an accordion."" French manufacturer Couesnon was awarded the patent no. 569294 in 1924 for an instrument that was described as a ""saxophone jouet"" (fr. ""toy saxophone""). However, the couesnophone is a polyphonic instrument, while the saxophone is monophonic. The couesnophone may be held like a saxophone or like a melodica"
"Xun (instrument) The xun (; Cantonese= hyun1) is a globular, vessel flute from China. It is one of the oldest musical instruments in China and has been in use for approximately seven thousand years. The xun was initially made of baked clay or bone, and later of clay or ceramic. It is the only surviving example of an earth (also called ""clay"") instrument from the traditional ""eight-tone"" (bayin) classifications of musical instruments (based on whether the instrument is made from metal, stone, silk, bamboo, gourd, earth, hide, or wood). The xun is an egg-shaped aerophone, containing at least three finger"
"and 1736. Silbermann was so pleased with the sound of this new invention that he included it in most of his later organs. Chalumeau The chalumeau (; ; plural chalumeaux) is a single-reed woodwind instrument of the late baroque and early classical eras. The chalumeau is a folk instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day clarinet. It has a cylindrical bore with eight tone holes (seven in front and one in back for the thumb) and a broad mouthpiece with a single heteroglot reed (""i.e."" not a continuous part of the instrument's body) made of cane. Similar to the"
"other achievements, but also play the horn, include actors Ewan McGregor and David Ogden Stiers, comedian and television host Jon Stewart, journalist Chuck Todd, The Who bassist and singer John Entwistle, and rapper and record producer B.o.B. French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the ""horn"" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands. A musician who plays a French"
"revived during the French Revolution, along with the ""tuba curva"". Both instruments were first used in the music that François Joseph Gossec composed for the translation of the remains of Voltaire to the Pantheon on 11 July 1791. In the final section of his orchestral work ""Pini di Roma"" (""Pines of Rome""), Respighi calls for six instruments of different ranges notated as ""Buccine"" (Italian plural), although he expected them to be played on modern saxhorns or flugelhorns. He also calls for three in the opening movement of his ""Feste Romane"" (""Roman Festivals""), but again notes that they may be replaced"
"Clavecin électrique The clavecin électrique (or clavessin électrique) was a musical instrument invented in 1759 by Jean-Baptiste Thillaie Delaborde, a French Jesuit priest. It is the earliest surviving electric-powered musical instrument, pre-dated only by the Denis d'or, which is only known from written accounts. Delaborde described the instrument in his 1761 publication, ""Le clavessin électrique"". The mechanism was based on a contemporary warning-bell device, and the instrument is essentially an electric carillon. A number of bells, two for each pitch, hang from iron bars along with their clappers (one for each pair). A globe generator charges the prime conductor and"
"playing dictated by the use of a pirouette, gives the instrument a piercing, trumpet-like sound, well-suited for out-of-doors performance. In English the name only first appears in the 14th century. There were originally three main variant forms, (1) ""schallemele"" (""shamulle"" or ""shamble""), (2) ""s(c)halmys"" (""shalemeyes"" or ""chalemyes"", all plural forms in Middle English), and (3) ""sc(h)almuse"" (or ""schalmesse""), each derived from a corresponding variant in Old French: ""chalemel"", ""chalemie"", and ""chalemeaux"" (the plural of ""chalemel""), each in turn derived from the Latin ""calamus"" (""reed""), or its Vulgar Latin diminutive form, ""calamellus"". (The name of a somewhat different reed instrument, the"
"recognition under the name of ""French Touch"", especially Daft Punk, David Guetta, M83, Justice and Air. French electronic music French electronic music, a panorama of French music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. Notable early French artists and composers in electronic music include Maurice Martenot, the inventor of the Ondes Martenot in 1928, and Pierre Schaeffer, the developer of the musique concrète in 1948. Among the famous contemporary artists include Jean-Michel Jarre, Air, Daft Punk, Justice and M83. The earliest known sound recording device was the phonautograph, patented in 1857 by Édouard-Léon Scott de"
"Baroque technique's forked (or cross-) fingering. However, German fingering has been described as a ""step backwards ... made on the false assumption that the instrument would be easier for schoolchildren"". The disadvantage is that other, unavoidable cross-fingerings become more difficult . Recorders with a plastic head joint or made completely of plastic are widely used. Soprano recorders are made from various woods such as maple, pear, boxwood, rosewood, olive, African blackwood, ""rosewood"", or ebony. Soprano recorder The soprano recorder in c, also known as the descant, is the third-smallest instrument of the modern recorder family and is usually played as"
"Pipasso The pipasso is a type of bagpipe found in northern France and Belgium. It is commonly called the ""Picardy bagpipe"". In the Belgian province of Hainaut, it is also known as the muchosa. The pipasso was traditionally played by shepherds in festival processions, and was often played alongside popular instruments such as the hurdy-gurdy and the fiddle. However, by the 1700s, it had largely been replaced by the fiddle and by bass instruments. There are a few outliers in the tradition that continued on beyond the 1700s. Unfortunately, no recordings of the last living players (whom were mostly shepherds"