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Music Instruments

This document categorizes and describes different types of musical instruments. It divides instruments into four main categories: aerophones (wind instruments), chordophones (string instruments), idiophones (instruments that vibrate or are struck), and membranophones (drums with vibrating membranes). Within each category it lists common instruments and provides brief descriptions of how they produce sound.

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Music Instruments

This document categorizes and describes different types of musical instruments. It divides instruments into four main categories: aerophones (wind instruments), chordophones (string instruments), idiophones (instruments that vibrate or are struck), and membranophones (drums with vibrating membranes). Within each category it lists common instruments and provides brief descriptions of how they produce sound.

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MUSIC

Instruments
AEROPHONES
 Wind Instruments .... Vibrating air

 The sound is made by the air vibrating in the


pipe or tube
 Free Aerophones
 Moving object vibrates air in the instrument to create
sound
 Accordion

 Harmonica

 Harmonium

 Mouth organ
 Flutes
 Air column split by lip of the instrument
 Panpipes … End blown flute

 Flute … Side Blown

 Piccolo… Small shrill flute… Range is an octave

higher than an ordinary flute


 Reedpipes
 Vibration of reeds creates sound
 Bagpipes (Multiple pipes)

 Clarinet (single reed)

 Oboe (double reed)

 Saxophone (single reed … Jazz)


 Lip Vibrated Aerophones
 Generally made of brass
 Trumpet (Brassy notes… optional mute makes it

different… jazz)
 Trombone (greatest note range in brass instruments)

 Tuba (lowest in the brass section… strong beat…

used in marches)
CHORDOPHONES
 Stringed Instruments
 Sound is created by vibrating strings

 Strings can be
 Metallic
 Synthetic

 Natural Materials
 Keyboard Chordophones
 Keyboard
 Organ

 Piano
 Harp
 Soothing and calming sound

 Lutes
 Stringed instrument with a pear shaped body and a
head with tuning pegs
 Sitar

 Mandolin

 Guitar
 Bowed Chordophones

 Fiddle
 Violin (smallest in size highest in pitch)

 Bass (biggest instrument in string section… plays

widest assortment of music… from classical to jazz)


 Viola (Slightly larger than violin… deeper pitch)

 Cello (Bigger than violin and viola… beautiful, mellow

sound)
IDIOPHONES
 Vibrating Instruments

 Sound is made by vibrating, hitting or


shaking the instrument

 Different materials are used (wood, metal,


membrane etc) in varying sizes and
thickness
 Concussion Idiophones
 Concussion … shattering effect from a hard blow
 Clappers

 Cymbals

 Percussion Idiophones
 Percussion … beating of a musical instrument
 Celesta (keyboard instrument with hammers that

strike a steel plate)


 Gong (disk shaped … produces sound when struck

with hammer)
 Xylophone
 Rattles (shaked idiophones)
 Maracas

 Friction Idiophone
 Musical glasses
MEMBRANOPHONES
 Vibrating membranes
 Generally drums
 Water drums
 Bongos

 Conga

 Snare drum (used in rolls… )

 Timpani (kettle drum)

 Bass drums (used in marches… keeps a pulse in

music)
ELECTROPHONES

 Electronically created sounds


 Synthesizers

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