Favorite woodwind?

"Impractical"! Ha ha! I love that description! So true. :D

to play, basset horn.

to write for, clarinet.

to listen to, English horn.

"Impractical"! Ha ha! I love that description! So true. :D

Seriously, you take already oxygen deprived and thumb dislocated bassoonists and give them a couple of tongue depressers to rattle their brain around....to think, someone had to wake up one morning and say to themselves, "this is a good idea."

sorry for the perhaps off-topic post, as much as i hate it...i love it, lol.

It has to be the clarinet for me. The coloristic possibilities and the range are aspects that you could appreciate in it.

Alto flute for me - I love how mellow it sounds - shame its too quiet in the lower parts of its range to be heard above other instruments in an orchestra :(

Flute. Lyrical solos sound so sweet.

*sniffs around* Hmm... I didn't already post in here... well, for me, I really can't choose. For sound, I'd really say I love the cor anglais the best, but it can only do so much. It's not very good at stepping out of it's often lyrical character from what I've heard. I'd say next comes bassoon, then alto or bass flute. Actually, in comparison, I'd say alto flute has a stronger lower register than C flute... not that either could be heard over an orchetra or anything. And also... tenor and bass recorder are also pretty cool, as is soprano sax. :cool:

Another one of my favorite woodwinds are probably the baritone sax and contra alto clarinet...It's just so happens that I'm slightly weird...

TENOR SAXOPHONE

I would have to go with the oboe...

If I could learn any woodwind instrument it would be the oboe....

Don't actually know why, but that's my answer

I'd probably say the English Horn. I also love bass clarinet when it's in it's upper register and not just doubling the bass line.

oboe d'amore or shawm :]

hence the I love hautbois on the left.

Plus I play the oboe, so I can't *not* love it.

I agree with the guy who said contrabassoon. Shehnai (a quadruple-reed from North India) is also pretty cool.

Bass clarinet, by far. Then clarinet, then soprano saxophone, then dunno. Maybe bassoon. But bass clarinet :wub:

Double reed instruments hurt players really bad...*joking* heard those people are pretty messed up...Wait! did I just bash myself for playing oboe? *sniffles*

I love how Thomas Ad

bassoon.

In my opinion, the common concert flute in the right hands has an incredibly flexible array of timbres.

Especially when there are four of them playing in unison admist a Mahler Symphony.

(I refer to No. 4)