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