Aerophones

class of musical instruments

right|thumb|320px|Flutes are aerophones.

thumbnail|Shofar thumbnail|Shofar thumbnail|Blowing the shofar A shofar ( ; from , ) is an ancient musical horn, typically a ram's horn, used for Jewish ritual purposes. Like the modern bugle, the shofar lacks pitch-altering devices, with all pitch control done by the player's varying their embouchure. The shofar is blown in synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and at the end of Yom Kippur; it is also blown every weekday morning in the month of Elul running up to Rosh Hashanah. Shofars come in a variety of sizes and shapes, depending on the choice of animal and level of finish.

thumb|One of the pyrophones constructed by Kastner, as seen in 2013 in the Musée historique de Strasbourg upright|thumb|Durant's diagram of the sound-creating gas burners, the, "mechanisms that allowed two flames to unite or diverge to produce a musical note" thumb|Kastner

thumb|Different svirel exhibited at the museum of culture and music in Russia Svirel () is a Slavic woodwind instrument of the end-blown flute type traditionally used in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. It is a parallel-bore flute. The six-hole versions are similar to the tin whistle; the ten-hole versions are fully chromatic.

The fluier (; [ˈflu.jer]) is a traditional Romanian wind instrument, a type of shepherd's flute, common throughout the entire Romanian cultural area. It is an instrument with ancient Romanian roots, used predominantly in solo performance. In traditional culture, the fluier is primarily associated with the image of the solitary shepherd, for whom it serves as a means of self-expression and an accompaniment to daily life. The instrument's name is presumed to originate from the – "to blow".

thumb|right|An example of heligonka The heligonka or helikónka (in Slovak: heligónka) is a Czech, Slovak and a Polish Goral diatonic button accordion, similar to the Alpine Steirische Harmonika. Like the latter, the heligonka differs from other types of diatonic button accordions by having a supplemented and amplified bass part.

musical instrument, based on an empty jug

interior chamber of a wind instrument

thumb|Melody produced without grunts, notes often shaded by the harmonic series (D is the harmonic seventh)

improvised musical instrument

Manual instrument

The Pifilca or Pivilca (Mapudungun language: onomatopoeia of its sound) is an aerophone of the flute family, a ductless flute, similar to a whistle. It is a typical instrument of the Mapuche people, and it is spread from central Chile to the Argentine provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén in Patagonia.