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  2. Shorthand for orchestra instrumentation - Wikipedia

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    The orchestra is divided into four groups (five if a keyboard instrument is used) and specified as follows: [1] Woodwind instruments: flutes, oboes, clarinets, saxophones (if one or more are needed), bassoons; Brass instruments: horns, trumpets, trombones, tubas; Percussion: timpani, snare drum, bass drum, chimes, etc.

  3. Orchestrion - Wikipedia

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    Uses a ten-song music roll and plays multiple wind, string, and percussion instruments. Orchestrion is a generic name for a machine that plays music and is designed to sound like an orchestra or band. Orchestrions may be operated by means of a large pinned cylinder or by a music roll and less commonly book music.

  4. String section - Wikipedia

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    The string sections are at the front of the orchestra, arrayed in a semicircle around the conductor's podium. The string section of an orchestra is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family. It normally consists of first and second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses. It is the most numerous group in the standard ...

  5. Category:Orchestral instruments - Wikipedia

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    Violin family instruments (6 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Orchestral instruments" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.

  6. Orchestra - Wikipedia

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    The first is a Baroque orchestra (i.e., J.S. Bach, Handel, Vivaldi), which generally had a smaller number of performers, and in which one or more chord-playing instruments, the basso continuo group (e.g., harpsichord or pipe organ and assorted bass instruments to perform the bassline), played an important role; the second is a typical classical ...

  7. Family of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Aeolian Instrument family; The keyboard family can also be referenced, though it is not an authentic instrument family. Rather, it is a common design format for instrument interfaces. There are many types of instruments in the keyboard family, such as string, brass (and other metals), woodwind, percussion, electronic, digital, idiophone, and more.

  8. Category:Orchestras - Wikipedia

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    String instrument; String orchestra This page was last edited on 3 March 2022, at 18:44 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

  9. Category:Musical instrument templates - Wikipedia

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    <noinclude>[[Category:Musical instrument templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character. See also: Category:Musical instruments