Musical Family
- POSTED ON: 12 Jan, 2018
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Musical instruments are divided into three main categories: string instruments, percussion instruments and wind instrument.
String Instruments: Like the name suggests, these are instruments with strings may that be plucked, as in a guitar or harp, or bowed, as with a cello or a violin. This creates a vibration that causes a unique sound.
Percussion Instruments: Most percussion instruments make sounds when they are hit. For example: a drum or a tambourine. Others are shaken, such as maracas, or they may be rubbed or scratched, which will make the instrument vibrate and thus produce a sound.
Wind Instruments: These are further divided into two separate categories, brass instruments or woodwind instruments. Although brass instruments were originally made of brass and woodwind instruments have traditionally been made of wood, the material used to make the body of the instrument is not always a reliable guide to its family type. A more accurate way to determine whether an instrument is brass or woodwind is to examine how the player produces sound.
Brass Instruments: are made of brass or some other metal and make sound when air is blown inside. The musician’s lips pressed together must buzz causing the air inside the instrument to vibrate, which produces a sound.
Woodwind Instruments: produce sound when air (wind) is blown inside. Air might be blown across an edge, as with a flute; between a reed and a surface, as with a clarinet; or between two reeds, as with a bassoon. The sound happens when the air vibrates inside.
Check out the quiz below, and see if you can identify which family these instruments belong to.