Woodwind instrument are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe, saxophone, and bassoon. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and reed instruments . The principle qualification between these instruments and other breeze instruments is the manner by which they produce sound. All woodwinds produce sound by parting the air blown into them on a sharp edge, for example, a reed or a fipple. Notwithstanding the name, a woodwind might be made of any material, not simply wood. Common examples include brass, silver, cane, as well as other metals such as gold and platinum. The saxophone, for example, though made of brass, is considered a woodwind because it requires a reed to produce sound. Occasionally, woodwinds are made out of earthen materials, especially ocarinas.\

The instruments were first rough manifestations formed out of emptied wood or bone, and they were accepted to be sorcery in the manner that people groups would utilize them to speak with the dead, secure harvests or fix ailments as they accepted they would. It is a typical misinterpretation on account of their names that woodwind instruments are completely formed out of wood, yet this isn't correct.
Some of these instruments can be and are made out of metal and plastics. The name woodwind mainly references the reeds that are used in many of these instruments