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Overview of Musical Instrument Families

Different instrument adds flavor in every songs we've heard. This document will introduce to you the different family of instruments and how it distinct from each other.

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Overview of Musical Instrument Families

Different instrument adds flavor in every songs we've heard. This document will introduce to you the different family of instruments and how it distinct from each other.

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ART APPRECIATION

Crafting
Musical
Instrument
Performance
Brass Family

Woodwind Family

Strings Family

Percussion Family

Keyboard Family
Brass Family
Originally, brass instruments
were made of brass, but
today, some classified as
"brass" are made of other
materials.
Trumpet

Trombone

Cornet

Bass Trombone

Flugelhorn
Tuba
Baritone Horn

Euphonium French Horn


Brass instruments that are not in
common use

Ophicleide Cornett
Here are some really different
brass instruments

Conch

Didgeridoo

Alphorn
Woodwind Family

The instruments with which


you blow over a whole or
edge to create the sound.
Woodwind Family

There are two types of


woodwinds, flutes and
reeds.
Flute family consists of instruments with which
you blow over a whole or edge to create the
sound.

Flute
Recorder
When the musician blows into the mouthpiece,
the reed vibrates to create the sound.

Clarinet Oboe Bassoon Saxophone


Strings Family

Instruments whose sounds


are created by manipulating
tightened strings.
Violin Viola
Cello Double Electrical
Bass Bass
Harp
Lyre Autoharp
Different types of guitars can be found in
cultures all around the world.

Classical
Mandolin Banjo
Guitar
Many guitars are uniquely crafted to create
new, innovative sounds.

Chapman
Warr
Stick Dobro
Percussion Family

They are played by striking or


shaking and used for effect
and add dynamics to
complex compositions.
Timpani
Snare Drum

Concert Tom Drums


Some percussion instruments are turned
instruments, which means you can play notes
in a scale on them:

Chimes Bells
Some percussion instruments are turned
instruments, which means you can play notes
in a scale on them:

Glockenspiel Xylophone
Keyboard Family

One could argue that a piano is


both a percussion and string
instrument due to striking keys
and tightly bound strings
producing sound.
Harpsichord Pipe Organ
Electronic Piano Moog Synthesizer
THEREMIN
THANK YOU!

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