Phragmites australis. Drawn by Mary Wright Gill and Agnes Chase. From Hitchcock and Chase 1950.

The next time you listen to orchestra music, remember that you owe many of the sounds to plants. Stringed instruments and woodwinds (oboes, clarinets, bassoons, etc.) are made partly or completely of wood. However, the topic here is the music coming from the woodwinds, due to plant parts called reeds.