--Obliquely of interest: here's a wind-instrument player a friend of mine made many moons ago:
-- "Steamboat Ed" Haas : Whatever happened Hacking the Trailing Edge! : to Tom Nelson?
There is a big difference between blowing air across an opening, such as that used in a flute, and blowing reverberated air through a horn's mouthpiece.
Both the flute, and woodwind instruments would be far easier to construct and perform upon than those of the horn section.
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