| Musical instrument is device or object used to | | | | implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any |
| produce music; it refers to any thing used to | | | | other action which sets the object into vibration, |
| produce sounds. The study of musical instrument | | | | examples of percussion instruments are the |
| as an academic field of study is called organ logy. | | | | xylophone, piano, triangle, etc. Musical instruments |
| Over time there has been moves to arrange the | | | | are also being labeled using different methods |
| chronology of musical instruments across cultures, | | | | such as: |
| this has proved fruitlessfor reasons that all | | | | The ancient system dating from the 1st century |
| cultures advance at different level and have | | | | BC, divides instruments into four classification |
| access to different materials, different methods | | | | groups regarded as instruments where the sound |
| have been used to attain a positive chronological | | | | is produced by vibrating strings; instruments |
| progressionof musical instrument but known has | | | | where the sound is produced by vibrating columns |
| presented a responsive result, for instance | | | | of air; percussion instruments made of wood or |
| anthropologists has find it difficult to determine | | | | metal; and percussion instruments with skin heads. |
| which instruments are more by attempting to | | | | The Sachs-Hornbostel classified musical |
| compare musical instruments made by two | | | | instruments into four categories comprising of |
| cultures that existed at the same time but | | | | Chordophones, such as the piano or cello, which |
| differed in organization, culture and | | | | produces sound by vibrating strings; they are |
| handicraft.Musical instruments are of different | | | | sorted into zithers, keyboard chordophones, lyres, |
| types such as: Brass whose tone is produced by | | | | harps, lutes, and bowed chordophones. Another is |
| vibration of the lips as the player blows into a | | | | the erophones, such as the pipe organ or oboe, |
| tubular resonator; examples are trumpet, | | | | which produce sound by vibrating columns of air; |
| trombone, tuba, baritone, euphonium, French horn, | | | | they are sorted into free aerophones, flutes, |
| flugelhorn etc. Woodwind which produces sound | | | | organs, reedpipes, and lip-vibrated aerophones. |
| when the player blows air against an edge of, or | | | | Also of the Idiophones, such as the xylophone |
| opening in, the instrument, causing the air to | | | | and rattle, which produces sound by vibrating |
| vibrate within a resonator. Most commonly, the | | | | themselves; they are sorted into concussion, |
| player blows against a thin piece of wood called a | | | | percussion, shaken, scraped, split, and plucked |
| reed examples are Bansuri, dizi, flute, fife, etc. | | | | idiophones. And lastly the Membranophones, such |
| String musical instrument that produces sound by | | | | as drums or kazoos, which produces sound by a |
| means of vibrating strings, examples are piano, | | | | vibrating membrane; they are sorted into |
| violin, viola, cello, bass, mandolin, guitar, sitar, harp, | | | | predrum membranophones, tubular drums, friction |
| etc. Percussion musical instrument is any object | | | | idiophones, kettledrums, friction drums, and |
| which produces a sound by being hit with an | | | | mirlitons. |