Musical Instruments

Musical Instruments

What is a musical Instrument?

• A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument. The term "musical instrument", however, is generally reserved for items that have a specific musical purpose.

Types of Musical Instruments

• These categories are based on the mechanism by which the instrument makes its sound.
• String Instruments
• Percussion Instruments
• Wind Instrumets
• Brass Intrumets

String Instruments

• Their sound is made by a vibrating string. Strings can be made of metal, synthetic or natural materials. The strings can have different gauge or thickness, weight, length and tension.

Pictures of Some String Instruments

Piano

• The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with felt hammers that immediately rebound allowing the strings to continue vibrating at their resonant frequency. These vibrations are transmitted through a bridge to a soundboard that amplifies them.

Guitar

• The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four, seven, eight, ten, and twelve string guitars also exist.

Violin

• The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments.

Other Members of the violin family

• Cello
• Viola
• Bass

Harp

• The harp is not like any other member of the string family. It has about 45 strings stretched across its tall triangular frame. The strings are plucked by hand while seven pedals at the bottom of the harp adjust the length of the strings to produce additional notes.

Percussion Instruments

• With a name that means, "the hitting of one body against another," instruments in the

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