| Musical instruments are devices that are used to | | | | construction of the instrument. Flute, piccolo, |
| generate music. Musical instruments are generally | | | | clarinet, oboe, horn, mouth organ, saxophone, and |
| controlled by the player or the musician to | | | | bassoon are some of the winds instruments, while |
| produce the desired sound effects. | | | | the French horn, tuba, trumpet, and trombone are |
| Musical instruments are as old as music, and there | | | | brass instruments. Percussion instruments, on the |
| are still some traditional instruments that date | | | | other hand, are those that produce sounds when |
| back to centuries before. Each musical instrument | | | | struck. The shape of the resonating cavity and |
| has its own melody, pitch, rhythm, timbre, | | | | the size of the instrument determine the sound |
| loudness, and duration, as well as the notes and | | | | created. Some percussion musical instruments |
| chords. | | | | include the cymbals, the snare drum, bells, gong |
| There are many kinds of musical instruments. The | | | | chime, xylophone, and the timpani. Drums include |
| main categories are: chordophones (strings), | | | | the frame drum, the tambourine, the goblet |
| aerophones (woodwinds and brasses), idiophones | | | | drums, the barrel drum, and the friction drum. |
| (percussion), and membranophones (drums). | | | | Other kinds of musical instruments are the |
| Stringed instruments produce a sound when a | | | | keyboards and electronic instruments. These |
| string is plucked or strummed. The sound depends | | | | include the piano, organ, harpsichord, and the |
| on the mass of the string, length of the vibrating | | | | Glockenspiel. Each of these musical instruments |
| portion of the string, its tension, and the point at | | | | has sub-categories within them. |
| which the string is plucked or strummed. It also | | | | Musical instruments can also be categorized on the |
| depends on the kind of resonating cavity in the | | | | basis of their playing levels. Some are suitable for |
| instrument. Viola, violin, cello, guitar, mandolin, | | | | all kinds of players while some are for novices. |
| fiddle, harp, lute, banjo, etc, are some of the | | | | Expert players have their own preferences for |
| string instruments. | | | | musical instruments. |
| Woodwinds and brasses generate music when air | | | | There are many professional dealers of musical |
| is made to enter and vibrate within the | | | | instruments who would be able to provide all |
| instrument. The kind of music depends on the | | | | types information about each instrument in |
| shape of the instrument, the length of the column | | | | particular. There are also online stores for musical |
| of air, the method of tone production and the | | | | instruments. |