1. The Instruments
of the Orchestra

2. The String Family Are bowed or plucked
Is the largest family in actual numbers
Has four members
Each has four strings
Are bowed or plucked

3. Bowed
Plucked

4. Violin
Viola
The String Family
Cello
String Bass

5. The Brass Family Four members Common ancestor is the animal horn
Are played by blowing while buzzing lips

6. The Brass Family
Trumpet
French Horn
Trombone
Tuba

7. The Woodwind Family All of the members are or once were, made of wood
Most of them use reeds on the mouthpiece

8. The clarinet, oboe and bassoon are wind instruments that sound when the player's breath causes a reed (a thin blade of cane) to vibrate, thereby setting up a sound wave in an enclosed air column.

9. Flute
Clarinet
Oboe
The Woodwind Family
Bassoon

10. The Percussion Family played one of three ways: Struck Shaken Scraped
Some are pitched
Some are unpitched
Percussion instruments may be
played one of three ways:
Struck
Shaken
Scraped

11. The Percussion Family
Pitched instruments
Xylophone
or Bells
Piano

12. Unpitched instruments
The Percussion Family
Unpitched instruments
Cymbals
Bongos
Sleigh Bells

13. Bass Drum and Snare Drum are STRUCK

14. Tambourine and Maracas are SHAKEN

15. Guiro and Sand Blocks are played by SCRAPING

16. Can you name the instruments?
What instrument family do they belong to?

17. What instrument family do they belong to?
Can you name the instruments?
What instrument family do they belong to?

18. What instrument family do they belong to?
Can you name the instruments?
What instrument family do they belong to?

19. Can you name the instruments?
Are they pitched or unpitched?
What family do these instruments belong to?

20. What family do these instruments belong to?
Can you name the instruments?
Are they pitched or unpitched?
What family do these instruments belong to?

21. The End
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Monica Autry