Single Reed
A single-reed instrument is a woodwind instrument that uses only one reed to produce sound. The reed is clamped to the mouthpiece so that only a very narrow opening remains between the tip of the reed and the mouthpiece. The very earliest single-reed instruments were documented in ancient Egypt, as well as the Middle East, Greece, and the Roman Empire. These early types of single-reed instruments used idioglottal reeds, where the vibrating reed is a tongue cut and shaped on the tube of cane.
