Bowed

Plucked

• Is the largest family in actual numbers• Has four members• Each has four strings• Are bowed or plucked

CelloString Bass

Violin Viola

• Four members

• Common ancestor is the animal horn

• Are played by blowing while buzzing lips

Trumpet

TromboneFrench Horn

Tuba

• All of the members are or once were, made of wood• Most of them use reeds on the mouthpiece

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.

Flute

ClarinetOboe

Bassoon

• Some are unpitched• Percussion instruments may be played one of three ways:

StruckShakenScraped

• Some are pitched

Xylophoneor Bells

Pitched instruments

Piano

Unpitched instruments

Cymbals

Sleigh BellsBongos

Bass Drum and Snare Drum are STRUCK

Tambourine and Maracas are SHAKEN

Guiro and Sand Blocks areplayed by SCRAPING

Can you name the instruments?What instrument family do

they belong to?

What instrument family do they belong to?

Can you name the instruments?

What instrument family do they belong to?

Can you name the instruments?

Can you name the instruments?

What family do these instruments belong to?Are they pitched or unpitched?

What family do these instruments belong to?

Can you name the instruments?Are they pitched or unpitched?

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