| There are hundreds of different kinds of musical | | | | vibrates inside the instrument in a particular |
| instruments in the world. Almost every country has | | | | frequency, thus producing sound. The kind of music |
| its own traditional music and musical instruments that | | | | depends on the method of tone production, the |
| have been developed over the centuries. Each | | | | shape of the instrument, the length of the column of |
| musical instrument has its own melody, pitch, rhythm, | | | | air in addition to the construction of the instrument. |
| timbre, loudness, and duration, as well as the notes | | | | Flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, horn, mouth organ, |
| and chords.Musical instruments can be classified on | | | | saxophone, and bassoon are some of the winds |
| the basis of the kind of instrument: chordophones | | | | instruments, while the French horn, tuba, trumpet, |
| (strings), aerophones (woodwinds and brasses), | | | | and trombone are brass instruments.Percussion |
| idiophones (percussion), and membranophones | | | | instruments produce sounds when struck. The size of |
| (drums). Stringed instruments or chordophones are | | | | the instrument along with the shape of the |
| those that produce sounds when a string is plucked | | | | resonating cavity determines the sound produced. |
| or strummed. The kind of sound produced depends | | | | Some percussion musical instruments include the |
| on the mass of the string, length of the vibrating | | | | cymbals, the snare drum, bells, gong chime, |
| portion of the string, tension in the string, and the | | | | xylophone, the bass drum, maracas, castanet and the |
| point at which the string is strummed apart from the | | | | timpani.Drums include the goblet drums, the barrel |
| kind of resonating cavity in the instrument. Viola, | | | | drum, the frame drum, the tambourine, and the |
| violin, cello, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, harp, lute, banjo, | | | | friction drum. Other kinds of musical instruments are |
| balalaika, koto, ukulele, etc. are some of the string | | | | the piano, keyboards, organ, harpsichord, and the |
| instruments.Woodwinds and brasses generate music | | | | Glockenspiel. Each of these musical instruments has |
| when air enters the instrument by blowing. This air | | | | sub-categories within them. |