Step back in time to the golden age of ornamentation and elegance with the baroque flute—a woodwind treasure that once serenaded the courts of Europe.

The soprano recorder, also known as the descant recorder, has been charming ears and causing schoolchildren to squeak for centuries.

The shawm is a double-reed woodwind instrument with a rich history dating back to ancient times. Originating in the Middle East, it was first developed from earlier reed instruments around the 12th century and spread across Europe, Africa, and Asia due to...

Teen musicians play their woodwind instruments so you can hear what they sound like.

The chalumeau is a woodwind instrument, considered a precursor to the modern clarinet. It first appeared in Europe around the 17th century, with origins possibly tracing back to earlier folk instruments.

Andrew Kershaw shows us a rare and endangered instrument, seldom found in orchestras of today; the serpent - an unusual looking beast, distant relative of the tuba, which composers such as Wagner, Mendelssohn and Berlioz wrote for.

The cornetto, also known as the "cornett," is a historical wind instrument that was popular during the Renaissance and early Baroque periods.

The xaphoon is a chromatic keyless single-reed woodwind instrument. It has a closed cylindrical bore and a very slightly flared bell. The xaphoon has a full chromatic range of two octaves, and overblows at the twelfth like the clarinet.

The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as internal duct flutes: flutes with a whistle mouthpiece, also known as fipple flutes.

A fife is a small, high-pitched, transverse aerophone, that is similar to the piccolo. The fife originated in medieval Europe and is often used in fife and drum corps, military units, and marching bands. Someone who plays the fife is called a fifer.

The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is a type of fipple flute, putting it in the same class as the recorder, Native American flute, and other woodwind instruments that meet such criteria. A tin whi...