• Is the largest family in the orchestra

• Has four main instruments

• Are bowed or plucked or strummed

Bowed

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, saxophone 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

Clarinet

Oboe

Bassoon

Saxophone

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

StruckShakenScraped

• Some are pitched

Xylophone

or 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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