A wind instrument is an instrument with a tube that has a column of air. When the player blows into the mouthpiece of the tube she creates a musical vibration. Wind instruments include the bagpipe, bassoon, bombarde, clarinet, contrabassoon, flute, nose flute, oboe, saxophone, slide whistle, tarogato and tromboon. Brass instruments in the wind family are not always brass and include the alphorn, baritone horn, bazooka, trumpet, serpent and lots of more.