If it's made of wood or it used to be, then it's in the woodwind family!

The 4th and 5th graders continue their instrumental studies with the woodwind family!

Flute (classical link, contemporary (modern-time) link, beatboxing flute)

Emmanuel Pahud playing C.P.E. Bach's Sonata, Allegro movement

"Charanga" by Michael Colquhoun, performed by Tereasa Payne

Beatboxing flute - Greg Pattillo, playing the theme from Super Mario Brothers

Piccolo (video of Ms. Galligan performing "Scars and Scrapes Forever," a parody of "Stars and Stripes Forever")

Clarinet

Julian Bliss playing "Flight of the Bumblebee"

Julian Bliss playing part of the Mozart clarinet concerto

Percy Grainger's "Molly on the Shore," for clarinet choir
Can you find some of the low clarinets?

Saxophone

"Strange Humors" by John Mackey, for saxophone quartet (soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, and bari sax) and djembe (hand drum)

"Moanin'" by Charles Mingus

Listen to the baritone sax solo at the beginning of this fun jazz chart!

Oboe (link to DSO Kids page on the oboe)

Albrecht Mayer playing Ralph Vaughan Williams' Oboe Concerto finale

English Horn (link to the DSO Kids page on the English Horn)

English horn solo from Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony

Bassoon (link to DSO Kids page on bassoon)

The Breaking Winds bassoon quartet (they met at Eastman School of Music) playing a Lady Gaga medley

Contrabassoon (link to DSO Kids page on contrabassoon)

Dominic Morgan from the London Symphony Orchestra demonstrating contrabassoon