5th Grade Instrument Sort/Identification - Sound

Which is your favorite instrument? How would you describe it's sound?

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Percussion

The percussion family includes a wide range of different- looking instruments, including the drums, triangle, xylophone and cymbals. Musicians make sounds with percussion instruments by striking or shaking the instrument. When hit, the instrument itself vibrates, creating sound waves. Some percussion instruments create a definite pitch, while others, such as snare drums and maracas, produce so many frequencies that they have no real pitch.

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Timpani

• Brass

• Percussion

• Strings

• Woodwinds

A ​ ​ ​ (a)   instrument makes sound by striking or shaking the instrument.

• percussion
• string
• woodwind
• brass

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Woodwinds

What do a flute, saxophone, oboe, piccolo, and clarinet have in common? They are all members of the woodwind family. This means that they are basically pipes that are blown into or across. The pipe of the instrument contains a long, thing column of air. When the musician blows on a woodwind instrument, the air inside the pipe vibrates. These instruments have holes in them that the musician can open or close with fingers to change the length of the pipe. The longer the column of air, the lower the pitch. If the pipe is shortened, the pitch gets higher. Some woodwinds, like the clairnet, use a reed - a thin piece of wood - which the musician blows on to vibrate the air.

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Bassoon

• Brass

• Percussion

• Strings

• Woodwinds

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Brass

These shiny instruments include trumpets, trombones, French horns, and tubas. The secret to playing these is all in the lips. Musicians put their mouths against the mouthpiece and blow in such a way that their lips vibrate. Brass instruments can produce different pitches by changing the length of tubing the air moves through. Trumpets have valves that serve this purpose; a trombone is stretched apart or pulled inward to create different pitches.

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French Horn

• Brass

• Percussion

• Strings

• Woodwinds