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