The player uses foot pedals to pump the air. Harp This string instrument dates back to pre-historic times. The modern harp has a large triangular frame with strings stretched vertically across the triangle. The sound is created by plucking the strings with fingers.
Harpsichord A keyboard instrument that was an ancestor of the piano. When the keys are pressed, the strings are plucked by quills. Because of this, it is nearly impossible to make changes in dynamics playing the harpsichord. Kendang A two-headed drum used by peoples from Maritime Southeast Asia. Kettle Drum The only drum that can be tuned to produce definite pitches.
Its name comes from the large kettle-shaped bottom, over which the skin of the drumhead is stretched. The player uses a pedal to tighten and loosen the drumhead to change the pitch. Also called timpani. Kora A string instrument used extensively in West Africa, a kora typically has strings which are played by plucking with the fingers, and combines features of the lute and a harp.
Koto A Japanese plucked half-tube zither and the national instrument of Japan. Lute An ancestor of the guitar, this string instrument with a pear-shaped body has its strings arranged in pairs. Its strings are plucked. Mandolin A small, stringed instrument of the lute family. It has a pear shaped body, strings in four pairs and a neck similar to a guitar.
Maracas A rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music. Marimba A percussion instrument that consists of a set of tuned wooden bars arranged like a piano keyboard. A series of hollow tubes beneath the bars allows the sound to resonate. The bars are struck with mallets. Mbira Traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe, a mbira is usually made of a wooden board with attached metal tines, and is played with the thumbs.
Metallophone A percussion instrument with a series of metal bars of varying pitch suspended over a resonance box. The instrument is struck with a hammer or mallet. Mridangam A wooden double-headed drum, originally from southern India. Musical Bow A simple string instrument used by a number of South African peoples, that consists of a flexible stick and strung end to end with a taut cord, usually metal.
It can be played with the hands or a wooden stick or branch. Native American Flute A flute that is held in front of the player, has open finger holes, and has two chambers: one for collecting the breath of the player and a second chamber which creates sound. Nohkan A high pitched, Japanese bamboo flute, commonly used in traditional Imperial Noh and Kabuki theatre. Oboe A woodwind instrument made of a conical tube with a double reed stuck into the top. Sound is made by blowing through the double reed.
The pitch is changed by opening and closing holes on the sides of the instrument. Organ A keyboard instrument on which sound is produced by forcing air through pipes.
Each pipe sounds one tone, and is controlled by keyboards and pedals. Pemade A Balinese instrument in the gamelan, which is used in the gamelan, it normally has seven bronze bars placed on top of a resonating frame. Piano A stringed keyboard instrument. Its strings are struck by hammers which are connected to the keys. There are 88 keys on a modern piano, and each one is a different note. It was originally called pianoforte because it could play both soft piano and loud forte. Pianoforte This is the original name for the modern piano, which comes from the fact that a player could play both soft piano and loud forte , unlike its harpsichord ancestor.
Piccolo A small flute that sounds an octave higher than a regular flute. It gets its name from the Italian word for "little" - short for flauto piccolo, or little flute. Powwow Drum A traditional native american drum, made with a large base and covered with rawhide of deer, buffalo or steer.
Rattles A hand-held rattle that is traditionally used as a dance rattle or to accompany the rhythm of the Native American drums. Rebab A medieval Arabic bowed musical instrument having from one to three strings, shaped typically like a small lute. Metal caps called keys cover the holes of most woodwind instruments.
The mouthpieces for some woodwinds, including the clarinet, oboe and bassoon, use a thin piece of wood called a reed , which vibrates when you blow across it. The clarinet uses a single reed made of one piece of wood, while the oboe and bassoon use a double reed made of two pieces joined together.
Just as with the stringed instruments, the smaller woodwinds play higher pitches while the longer and larger instruments play the lower notes. The woodwind family of instruments includes, from the highest sounding instruments to the lowest, the piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon and contrabassoon. The flute is the oldest of all instruments that produce pitched sounds not just rhythms , and was originally made from wood, stone, clay or hollow reeds like bamboo.
Modern flutes are made of silver, gold or platinum; there are generally 2 to 4 flutes in an orchestra. A standard flute is a little over 2 feet long and is often featured playing the melody. You play the flute by holding it sideways with both hands and blowing across a hole in the mouthpiece, much like blowing across the top of a bottle. Your fingers open and close the keys, which changes the pitch. A shorter version of the flute is called the piccolo , which means small in Italian.
At half the size of a standard flute, piccolos play the highest notes of all the woodwinds; in the orchestra one of the flute players will also play piccolo if that instrument is required. The high piping sound of the piccolo is also heard in traditional drum corps and marching band music. The oboe is a 2 foot long black cylinder with metal keys covering its holes, and its mouthpiece uses a double reed, which vibrates when you blow through it.
This vibration of the reed makes the air inside the oboe move, and thus creates sound. To play it, hold the oboe upright, blow through the double reed in your mouth, and use both hands to press down on the keys to open and close the holes and change the pitch.
Someone who plays the oboe is called an oboist. Someone who plays an organ is an organist. Someone who plays the piano is usually called a pianist, but someone who plays popular music or jazz can also be called a piano player. Saxophones are used mainly for playing jazz music. The triangle is a percussion instrument. You play it by blowing into it as you slide one of the tubes forwards and backwards.
A trombone is a brass instrument. Someone who plays the trombone is called a trombonist. You play it by blowing into it as you press buttons on the top. Someone who plays the trumpet is called a trumpeter or a trumpet player. A tuba is a brass instrument. It has a handle and two long thin parts. A drum player is called a drummer. A guitar player is called a guitarist.
A keyboard player is called a keyboardist. An oboe player is called an oboist. An organ player is called an organist. A piano player is called a pianist. They would not be called a recordist, since that would refer to someone who does sound recording. A saxophone player is called a saxophonist. A trombone player is called a trombonist.
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