Band Instruments

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Band Instruments

• 5th grade beginning band

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Instrument Families

• Woodwind family
• Brass family
• Percussion family

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Wind Instruments

• Instruments in the wind category
• require the player to push air through
• the instrument to create sound.
• All brass and woodwind instruments
• are wind instruments.
• Percussion instruments are not wind
• instruments, because sound is caused
• by striking, shaking or scraping the
• instrument.

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Woodwind Family
The clarinet was the first single-reed instrument.
It was modeled after the Chalumeau, an
instrument commonly played during the renaissance
era.
Click on the clarinet to hear how it sounds
Click on the flute to hear how it sounds
The flute is the oldest wind instrument. Unlike
most woodwind instruments, it does not have a
reed air is pushed through the tone hole
instead.
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Woodwind Family
The saxophone is also a single reed instrument.
It is most popular for jazz band.
Click on the oboe to hear how it sounds
The oboe is a double reed instrument. The player
blows air, which causes the two reeds to vibrate
against one another and create sound.
Click on the saxophone to hear how it sounds
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More flutes and clarinets
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Brass Family
High Brass
The trumpet and french horn are considered high
brass, because they play tones in the
upper register of sound. The mouth pieces are
small and the tubing is shorter.
Click on the French Horn to hear how it sounds
Click on the Trumpet to hear how it sounds
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Brass Family
Low brass instruments have longer tubing and
larger mouthpieces and bells. This causes the
pitch the sound to be lower.
LOW BRASS
Click on the Baritone to hear how it sounds
Click on the Trombone to hear how it sounds
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Percussion Family
Batterie
Click the snare drum to hear how it sounds
Batterie percussion only plays One pitch at a
time.
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Pitched Percussion
Keyboard
Pitched percussion plays more than one note.
Timpani
Click the Glockenspiel to hear how it sounds
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Music expresses that which cannot be expressed
in words, and that which cannot remain
silent. - Gustav Mahler