The Instruments

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The Instruments of the Orchestra
Prepared by Mrs. Autry Devers School
Fort Bragg, N.C.
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The String Family

• Is the largest family in actual numbers

• Has four members

• Each has four strings

• Are bowed or plucked

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Bowed
Plucked
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Violin
Viola
The String Family
Cello
String Bass
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The Brass Family

• Four members

• Common ancestor is the animal horn

• Are played by blowing while buzzing lips

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The Brass Family
Trumpet
French Horn
Trombone
Tuba
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The Woodwind Family

• All of the members are or once were,
• made of wood

• Most of them use reeds on the mouthpiece

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The clarinet, oboe and bassoon are wind
instruments that sound when the player's breath
causes a reed (a thin blade of cane) to vibrate,
thereby setting up a sound wave in an enclosed
air column.
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Flute
Clarinet
Oboe
The Woodwind Family
Bassoon
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The Percussion Family

• Some are pitched

• Some are unpitched

• Percussion instruments may be
• played one of three ways
• Struck
• Shaken
• Scraped

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The Percussion Family
Pitched instruments
Xylophone or Bells
Piano
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The Percussion Family
Unpitched instruments
Cymbals
Bongos
Sleigh Bells
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Bass Drum and Snare Drum are STRUCK
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Tambourine and Maracas are SHAKEN
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Guiro and Sand Blocks areplayed by SCRAPING
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Can you name the instruments?
What instrument family do they belong to?
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Can you name the instruments?
What instrument family do they belong to?
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Can you name the instruments?
What instrument family do they belong to?
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Can you name the instruments?
Are they pitched or unpitched?
What family do these instruments belong to?
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Can you name the instruments?
Are they pitched or unpitched?
What family do these instruments belong to?
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The End