Traditionally, the sheng has been used as an accompaniment instrument for solo suona or dizi performances.

The suona is believed to have been developed from Central Asian instruments such as the sorna, surnay, or zurna, from which its Chinese name probably derives.

Since the mid-20th century, " modernized " versions of the suona have been developed in China ; such instruments have keys similar to those of the European oboe, to allow for the playing of chromatic notes and equal tempered tuning ( both of which are difficult to execute on the traditional suona ).

A musician playing an instrument very similar to a suona is shown on a drawing on a Silk Road religious monument in western Xinjiang province dated to the 3rd to 5th centuries, and depictions dating to this period found in Shandong and other regions of northern China depict it being played in military processions, sometimes on horseback.

Han traditional weddings and funerals usually include a form of oboe called a suona and apercussive ensembles called a chuigushou.

The suona (); also called laba () or haidi () is a Han Chinese shawm ( oboe ).

Chinese wind instruments include the dizi ( 笛子, a bamboo flute ), sheng ( 笙, which is free reed mouth organ ) and suona ( 唢呐, a double reed oboe ).

** Musette, a nickname for the suona, a type of Chinese shawm ( oboe )

The trompeta china ( also called corneta china ), a Cuban traditional wind instrument, is actually the Chinese suona, an instrument in the oboe family introduced to Cuba by Chinese immigrants during the colonial period ( specifically the late nineteenth century ).

Han folk music thrives at weddings and funerals and usually included a form of oboe called a suona and percussive ensembles called chuigushou.

Beiguan usually uses two Chinese oboes ( suona ) together with percussion ; the woodblock ( bangzi ), large and small gongs ( da luo and xiao luo ), large and small cymbals ( da bo and xiao bo ) and drums, the ban gu ( high-pitched drum ), the tong gu ( small drum ) and sometimes the da gu ( large drum ).

The nazi ( 呐子 ), a related instrument that is most commonly used in northern China, consists of a suona reed ( with bocal ) that is played melodically, the pitches changed by the mouth and hands .< sup > video </ sup > Sometimes the nazi is played into a large metal horn for additional volume.

Also, many of the Chinese instruments are modified versions of traditional instruments, for example, the diyinsheng ( large bass sheng ), and the zhongyin ( alto ) suona, which is fitted with keys.

The suona, a raucous reed horn, features in the orchestration and is played onstage several times.

The music is often guttural with high-pitched vocals, usually accompanied by suona, jinghu, other kinds of string instruments, and percussion.

Ensembles consisting of mouth organs ( sheng ), shawms ( suona ), flutes ( dizi ) and percussion instruments ( especially yunluo gongs ) are popular in northern villages ; their music is descended from the imperial temple music of Beijing, Xi ' an, Wutai shan and Tianjin.

# Arranging the " dream bed "-The suona is played during the vigil.

There is now a family of such instruments, including the zhongyin suona ( Alto suona ), cizhongyin suona ( Tenor suona ), and diyin suona ( Bass suona ).

The tone produced by suona is loud, piercing and uplifting, thus it is usually used to perform vibrant and lively pieces.

The suona is commonly used as an accompaniment in the Chinese opera, singing or dancing, but also for more sombre occasions, such as during a traditional Chinese funeral procession.

* Per chi suona la banana (" For Whom the Banana Tolls "; the title is a pun on For Whom the Bell Tolls, with a reference on the banana republic )

Players of the trompeta china are not necessarily of Chinese ancestry, and the instrument's playing style is more imitative of a trumpet than of the traditional playing style of the suona or any other Chinese instrument.

Born to a poor peasant family, Liu was a professional folk musician who had earned a meagre living playing the guanzi, suona, and dizi in rural ritual ensembles before becoming a soloist in the Tianjin Song-and-Dance Ensemble ( Tianjin gewutuan ) in 1952.

Karn was principally the bassist within Japan, but also played all the wind instruments, including the saxophone ; on Tin Drum, he played the Chinese suona ( credited as ' dida ') for the authentic oriental sound.

The other members of the premiere cast included mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao singing the dual roles of Ruth and the youthful Liu Ling, mezzo-soprano Ning Liang as Old Lu Ling, bass Hao Jiang Tian as Chang, folk / pop vocalist and suona player Wu Tong as the Taoist priest, baritone James Maddalena as Ruth's husband, Art Kamen, mezzo-soprano Catherine Cook as Art's mother Arlene Kamen and as Madame Wang in the flashback to Immortal Heart village, bass-baritone Valery Portnov as Art's father, Marty Kamen, with 14-year-old Madelaine Matej and 17-year-old Rose Frazier, respectively, playing Art's teen daughters, Dory and Fia Kamen.

It was not mentioned in Chinese literature until the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ), but by this time the suona was already established in northern China.

Cole, most unusually for his genre, specializes in non-Western wind instruments, including the Ghanaian atenteben, Chinese suona, Korean hojok and piri, South Indian nagaswaram, North Indian shehnai, Tibetan trumpet, and Australian didjeridu.

Other instruments used include gongs, cymbals, suona, dina, shuibangzi, flute, sixian, bangu and erhu.

As the name implies, a cone clutch has conical friction surfaces.

Unlike the trumpet, which has a cylindrical bore up until the bell section, the tubing of the cornet has a mostly conical bore, starting very narrow at the mouthpiece and gradually widening towards the bell.

The flugelhorn (— also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn — from German, wing horn, ) is a brass instrument that resembles a trumpet but has a wider, conical bore.

If a modern ' flügelhorn ' bell has a flare similar to the one shown on the larger saxhorn pictured here, then it may indeed be a soprano saxhorn, but if the conical bell is nearly the diameter of the bell rim until just before a small final flare, then it is a true flügelhorn.

It has an open conical shape: the cone is formed from sixteen or so overlapping feathers, usually goose or duck and from the left wing only, embedded into a rounded cork base.

The trombone has a predominantly cylindrical bore like its valved counterpart the baritone horn and in contrast to its conical valved counterparts, the euphonium and the orchestral horn.

The typical nuraghe is situated in areas where previous Prehistoric Sardinians Cultures had been distributed, that is not far from alluvial plains ( though few nuraghi appear in plains nowadays, as they were destroyed by human activities such as agriculture, dams and others ) and has the shape of a truncated conical tower resembling a medieval tower ( outside ) or a beehive ( inside ).

According to Schultes ' and Anderson's descriptions, C. sativa is tall and laxly branched with relatively narrow leaflets, C. indica is shorter, conical in shape, and has relatively wide leaflets, and C. ruderalis is short, branchless, and grows wild in central Asia.

It has been incorrectly noted that the tuba is a conical brass instrument and the sousaphone is a cylindrical brass instrument ; actually both instruments are semi-conical — no valved brass instrument can be entirely conical, since the middle section with the valves must be cylindrical.

It consists of a conical wooden pipe covered in leather, is about 24 inches long, and has finger holes and a small horn or ivory mouthpiece.

The stalked flower buds appear in clusters of between 7 and 11 ; each bud has a narrow, conical bud cap long.

The mountain consists of four overlapping volcanic cones which have built a complex shape, including the main summit and the prominent satellite cone of Shastina, which has a visibly conical form.

Although both baritone and euphonium produce partials of the B harmonic series, and both have a nine-foot-long main tube, the baritone has a smaller and more cylindrical bore while the euphonium has a larger and more conical bore.

A test tube has either a flat bottom, a round bottom, or a conical bottom.

The bugle for instance, has the classification number 423. 121. 22, even though it is generally regarded as a relatively simple instrument ( it is basically a bent conical tube which you blow down like a trumpet, but it does not have valves or finger-holes ).

The fruit is a cone-like aggregate of samaras 4 – 9 cm long, each of which has a roughly tetrahedral seed with one edge attached to the central conical spike and the other edge attached to the wing.

The ball is 2. 5 – 4 cm in diameter and contains several hundred achenes, each of which has a single seed and is conical, with the point attached downward to the net at the surface of the ball.

The towers have conical roofs ; the central block has a pediment.

The trumpet playing community has embraced a method for making an inexpensive practice mute out of a conical plastic " Renuzit " brand gel air freshener container filled with tissue or fabric.

The downside to this approach is that the body has more surface area, and thus more skin drag, but analysis demonstrates up to 20 % improvements over a simple conical body optimized for the same speed.

The alto horn ( US English ; tenor horn in British English, Althorn in Germany ; occasionally referred to as E horn ) is a brass instrument pitched in E. It has a predominantly conical bore ( most tube extents gradually widening ), and normally uses a deep, cornet-like mouthpiece.

The alto horn is a valved brass instrument ( in E flat ) which has a predominantly conical bore like the euphonium and flugelhorn.