It’s a single-reed instrument we might describe as the ancestor of the clarinet. We’ll also hear music featuring another woodwind—the oboe—on this hour’s featured release.

Aficionados of the woodwind family may take particular pleasure in the Amsterdam-based Calefax Reed Quintet, which brings together the atypical assemblage of oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bass ...

Double reed, single bond: ... Along with hours of daily rehearsal, this oboist and bassoonist are both woodwind instructors at Wichita State University and members of the Lieurance Woodwind Quintet.

But flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon and French horn are wildly diverse with single reeds, small double reeds, large double reeds, and no reeds at all. The French horn isn't even a woodwind instrument.