Is the largest family in actual numbers Has

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

Bowed Plucked

Violin Viola Cello String Bass

• Four members • Common ancestor is the animal horn • Are played by blowing while buzzing lips

Trumpet Trombone French 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 Clarinet Oboe Bassoon

• • Some are pitched Some are unpitched • Percussion instruments may be played one of three ways: Struck Shaken Scraped

Pitched instruments Xylophone or Bells Piano

Unpitched instruments Cymbals Bongos Sleigh Bells

Bass Drum and Snare Drum are STRUCK

Tambourine and Maracas are SHAKEN

Guiro and Sand Blocks are played by SCRAPING

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

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

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

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

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