WIND INSTRUMENTS/AEROPHONES

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Wind instruments or Aerophones are the instruments that produce sound using air. They are classified into, roughly,two categories - The Aerophones that don't use any mechanical parts to produce or control sound and second one that use vibratos or reeds. 

The first category belongs the🎷 trumpet 🎺 includes, primitive Aerophones like bones of animals and conches.
Bone's Aerophones



Bones were used by ancient people and are still been a characteristic of tribal and folk music like singe of  bhils of India,  the deer horn singi of Uttar Pradesh, reli-ki of the north east India and the South Indian c shaped kombu(banks, bankya, bargu, ran-singha, narsingha, turi) .
shells


Indian conche/🐚 shell is a trumpet, used in India music instruments (folk and worship). 
Tutari, Maharashtra

The primitive straight trumpet includes-tutari & bhongal of Maharashtra, kahal of Odisha, bhenr of Uttar Pradesh, thunchen of northern Himalayan, tiruchinnam of peninsula India..

The Flute- is said to have been introduced by Aryan to India. It is made of bamboo. It's known by various names in different parts of the country like - Vamsi, bansuri, bansi, (north Indian) , pillankuzhal(in Tamil Nadu) pillanagrovi(in Andhra Pradesh) and kolalu (Karnataka). Most common type of flute is horizontal flute . Air is blown into a small hole at the closed end of the bansuri----like fifli of North East or the narh of Rajasthan..

Reeds/vibrators instruments are of two types-first one are single reed and second two reeds instruments. Single reed includes- been/pungi, the tarpo/ghonga/khongada/dobru, the titti or mashak(Indian bagpiper) and the Assamese pepaa.

Double reed includes-nagasvaram an important instrument in karnatic music and the sophisticated Shehnai..

There are also mukhveenas- the sundri, the naferi, the ottu. 
Harmonium

The main among free reed instruments is harmonium and khung(rusem)of East India.

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