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A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification, such as the Hornbostel-Sachs system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families. Some commonly recognized families are: Strings family. Woodwind family.
The standard modern violin family consists of the violin, viola, cello, and (possibly) double bass. [3][4][5] Instrument names in the violin family are all derived from the root viola, which is a derivative of the Medieval Latin word vitula (meaning "stringed instrument"). [6] A violin is a "little viola", a violone is a "big viola" or a bass ...
An assortment of musical instruments in an Istanbul music store. This is a list of musical instruments , including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones and membranophones)
Clarinet family. A group of different clarinets. In order from left to right: bass clarinet, E ♭ alto clarinet, soprano clarinets in C, B ♭, A, E ♭, and D, and clarinets in high and low G. Different instruments of the clarinet family (German system) played by Tribal Clarinet Trio. Left to right: deep G clarinet (Theo Jörgensmann ...
Great Highland bagpipe. D ♭4. Northumbrian smallpipes in F or F+. B ♭4 for F (~20 cents sharp for F+) Older and traditionally made instruments use a pitch sharp of F described as F+ (F-plus) Banjo. Banjo. C 3. Tenor banjo.
In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Musicians play some string instruments, like guitars, by plucking the strings with their fingers or a plectrum (pick), and others by hitting the ...
An orchestra (/ ˈɔːrkɪstrə /; OR-ki-strə) [1] is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: String instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, and double bass. Woodwinds, such as the flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon ...
The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as internal duct flutes: flutes with a whistle mouthpiece, also known as fipple flutes, although this is an archaic term. A recorder can be distinguished from other duct flutes by the presence of a thumb-hole for the upper hand and seven finger-holes: three for the ...