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 (DIR) Post #AFEV647DTns4xSaJYu by lis@mk.catgirlsfor.science
       2022-01-08T14:07:48.080Z
       
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 (DIR) Post #AFEV64adiPPIQiLoQK by Paradox@busshi.moe
       2022-01-08T14:18:39Z
       
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       @lis Me wondering what in a sax is made of wood.
       
 (DIR) Post #AFEWe6j0NrrSqq3Z5M by lis@mk.catgirlsfor.science
       2022-01-08T14:29:40.461Z
       
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       @Paradox@busshi.moe the reed
       
 (DIR) Post #AFEWe7FcQbwuTzJbv6 by Paradox@busshi.moe
       2022-01-08T14:36:01Z
       
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       @lis So it's like a brass instrument with a wooden attachment.
       
 (DIR) Post #AFEYQeBfNJiiUFAih6 by lis@mk.catgirlsfor.science
       2022-01-08T14:52:01.926Z
       
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       @Paradox@busshi.moe welllllllbrass and woodwind are really just historic terms, and the scientific consensus is that the difference is the way the sound is made, not the materialin brass instruments the player's lips vibrate and that is how the sound is made, the instrument itself just acts as a resonatorwoodwind instruments can be either flutes or reed instruments, in flutes the air is blown across a static sharp edge and that makes the sound, in reed instruments the air is blown along a thin reed which vibrates and makes the sounda didgeridoo is a brass instrument, not a woodwind, despite usually being made out of woodmetal transverse flutes, plastic recorders, and saxophones with synthetic reed are all woodwinds despite having no wooden components
       
 (DIR) Post #AFEYvKRMqKPmDj97EO by Paradox@busshi.moe
       2022-01-08T15:01:33Z
       
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       @lis So this would be the sound purist, material anarchy stance.I'm no musician so I was thinking that it could also be about what the instrument sounds like. Didgeridoos could be woodwind since you're using wood to make sound (primarily). Doesn't seem brass cuz tubas, trumpets, and the like all have a very distinctive sound to them.A pipe organ is like "what if you gave a piano a bunch of flutes/etc".
       
 (DIR) Post #AFEkfX7F9C3yLhy3cG by lis@mk.catgirlsfor.science
       2022-01-08T16:54:58.481Z
       
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       @Paradox@busshi.moe that woud be counterproductive, since instruments can sound similar despite having wildly different ways of making that sound. acoustic and digital piano sound similar but one is a struck chordophone and the other is an electrophonethe naming is a little unfortunate but the taxonomy is pretty sound
       
 (DIR) Post #AFEkfXWPdcCDblk9qa by Paradox@busshi.moe
       2022-01-08T17:13:08Z
       
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       @lis Does the material matter, at least as far as the broad categories go?Like I think it'd make sense for a classic and electric piano to be in the same category if you just want a piano. Of course, if you need something specific then material and mechanism certainly matter.Taxonomy's sound, eh?
       
 (DIR) Post #AFEqnQxOWrYlI0VmNc by lis@mk.catgirlsfor.science
       2022-01-08T17:39:44.639Z
       
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       @Paradox@busshi.moe that taxonomy is for studying and building instruments, not for buying adviceelectric and acoustic guitars are similar enough, sure, one has pickups and an amp connection, the other has a resonance body; but knowing how to build a grand piano doesn't make you an expert in the electronics of epianos, and knowing how a synth works won't help you much in understanding the countless factors that influence the sound of acoustic instrumentsmaterials do not matter a lot here. there are transverse flutes wtih fingerholes and those with keys; made of brass, wood, or even glass. they're still more closely related to each other than to trumpets and trombones