1. Musical Instruments

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What is an instrument?
An object or device used by humans to create musical sounds.
Any object that makes a sound can be classified as an instrument.

3. The oldest known instrument dates back approximately 67,000 years ago.
The “modern” human came to be around 50,000 years ago.

4. Divje Babe Flute
Played by Neanderthals
4 notes

5. Instrument Groups Idiophones Chordophones Membranophones Aerophones
Electronophones

6. Membranophones
Instruments that make sound by striking a membrane.

7. Types of Membranophones
Snare Drum Tabla
Bass Drum Taiko Drum
Drum Set Congas
Djembe Bongos
Tambourine Timpani

8. Talba Middle East

9. Djembe

10. Taiko Drums - Japan

11. Bongos

12. Congas Latin America

13. Timpani

14. Drum Set

15. Idiophones
Idiophones produce their sound when the instrument itself vibrates. (Shake, Rattle, Scrape, Strike)
Both pitched and un-pitched instruments.

16. Idiophones Gongs Maracas Cymbals Triangle Cow Bell Drum Sticks
Wood Block
Marimbas
Xylophones Yellow = pitched
Bells
Chimes

18. Gong

19. Marimba Wooden Keys Played with mallets. Used mainly in
orchestral music.
Iphone ring tone

20. Percussion Mallets

21. Vibraphone
Metal Keys
Has a pedal

22. Chordophones
A chordophone is any musical instrument that makes sound by way of a vibrating string or strings stretched between two points.

23. Chordophones Piano Acoustic Guitar Harpsichord Mandolin Harp Banjo
“Fiddle”
Ukulele
Violin
Viola
Cello
Double Bass

24. Chordophones
Chordophones can be played by being bowed, plucked, or in some cases struck.

25. Orchestral Strings
There are 4 major string instruments in the modern day orchestra.
Violin
Viola
Cello
Double Bass

26. Violin

27. Viola

28. Cello

29. Double Bass

30. String Quartet Quartet – small ensemble made up of four performers.
2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello

31. Acoustic Guitar

32. Mandolin

33. Banjo

34. Ukulele

35. Harp

36. Aerophone
An aerophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes, and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound.

37. Aerophone
- Most aerophone instruments make their sound by vibrating air contained WITHIN the instrument.

38. Instruments either played with a wooden reed or made out of wood.
Aerophones - Woodwind
Instruments either played with a wooden reed or made out of wood.
Clarinet
Flute
Piccolo
Saxophone
Bassoon
Oboe

39. Flute
Not made out of wood…….??!!!

40. Clarinet
Played with a wooden reed.

41. Saxophone

43. Oboe
Played with a double reed.

44. Bassoon Played with a double reed. (Not typically played while
standing.)

45. Aerophones - Brass
Instruments made out of brass, which make their sound by the vibration of the brass players lips on a metal mouthpiece.
Trumpet French Horn Tuba
Trombone Euphonium

46. Trumpet

47. Tuba

48. Trombone

49. French Horn