Musical Instruments.ppt

The presentation on "Musical Instruments" will provide attendees with an overview of the various types of musical instruments used in different genres and cultures throughout the world.

Music has been a part of human culture for thousands of years, and musical instruments have evolved and diversified over time. During the presentation, we will discuss the different categories of musical instruments, including stringed instruments, percussion instruments, wind instruments, and electronic instruments.

We will explore the history and development of these instruments, as well as the science behind how they produce sound and the different techniques used to play them. We will also showcase examples of different musical instruments and their unique sounds and features.

Additionally, we will discuss the cultural significance of musical instruments and how they are used in different genres and traditions. We will explore how music can transcend language and cultural barriers, bringing people together and fostering connections.

Overall, the presentation will provide attendees with an appreciation for the diversity and richness of musical instruments, as well as an understanding of the important role that music plays in our lives and in our global community. This presentation will be of interest to anyone who enjoys music and wants to learn more about the instruments that create it.

1. What is a musical Instrument?
A musical instrument is a device constructed
or modified for the purpose of making music.
In principle, anything that produces sound can
serve as a musical instrument. The term
"musical instrument", however, is generally
reserved for items that have a specific musical
purpose.

2. Types of Musical Instruments
These categories are based on the mechanism by which
the instrument makes its sound.
•String Instruments
•Percussion Instruments
•Wind Instruments
•Brass Instruments

3. String Instruments
Their sound is made by a vibrating string.
Strings can be made of metal, synthetic or
natural materials. The strings can have
different gauge or thickness, weight, length
and tension.

4. Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by
means of a keyboard that produces sound by
steel strings with felt hammers that
immediately rebound allowing the strings to
continue vibrating. These vibrations are
transmitted through a bridge to a soundboard
that increases them.

5. Guitar
The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient
roots that is used in a wide variety of musical
styles. It typically has six strings, but four,
seven, eight, ten, and twelve string guitars also
exist.

6. Violin
The violin is a bowed string instrument
with four strings. It is the smallest and
highest-pitched member of the violin
family of string instruments.

7. Other Members of the violin family
Cello Viola
Bass

8. Harp
The harp is not like any other member of the string
family. It has about 45 strings stretched across its
tall triangular frame. The strings are drawn by hand
while seven pedals at the bottom of the harp adjust
the length of the strings to produce additional notes.

9. Percussion Instruments
With a name that means, "the hitting of one body
against another," instruments in the percussion family
are played by being struck, scraped or shaken. In the
orchestra, the percussion section provides a variety of
rhythms, textures and tone colors.

10. Triangle
The triangle is made from a small round steel
tube, and is played by striking it with a steel
beater. Its bright shimmering sound is untuned
and resembles that of a bell.

11. Chimes
Chimes are a tuned instrument consisting of a
set of 12 to 18 metal tubes hung from a metal
frame. The chimes sound like church bells when
played. The longer the length of tube that is
struck, the lower the pitch that is created.

12. Xylophone
The xylophone is a tuned instrument made of
hardwood bars in graduated lengths set
horizontally on a metal frame. Striking the bars
with hard mallets produces a bright, sharp
sound. The xylophone was originally modeled
after an African instrument and its name is
Greek, meaning "wood sound".

13. Bass Drum
The bass drum is large. The beater or
mallet for a bass drum is large with a
soft material such as sheep's wool
covering the end.

14. Cymbals
Cymbals are made from two large plates, are
fitted with leather hand straps and are shaped
so that when they are crashed together, only
the edges touch. Although cymbals are untuned
instruments, different sized cymbals produce a
wide range of sound effects.

15. Wind Instruments
The three branches of the woodwind
family have different sources of sound.
Vibrations begin when air is blown across
the top of an instrument, across a single
reed, or across two reeds.

16. Piccolo
The piccolo is exactly like the flute
except that it is much smaller and is
usually made of silver or wood. The pitch
of the piccolo is higher than that of a
flute.

17. Oboe
The oboe is similar to the clarinet in many ways.
Both are made from wood and have metal keys
that can produce many notes rapidly. It has two
reeds tied together. By placing them between
one's lips and blowing air through them, the
reeds vibrate and produce a sound.

18. Saxophone
Conically shaped, the saxophone is the only
woodwind instrument made of brass. Although it
is found only occasionally in the symphony
orchestra, it is considered a member of the
woodwind family because it has a single reed like
the clarinet.

19. Flute
The flute is now made from silver or gold and is
about 2 feet in length. It looks like a narrow
tube with a row of holes covered by keys along
one side. The player blows air across the small
hole in the mouthpiece to produce a sound that
can be either soft or high.

20. Brass Instruments
Brass Family instruments produce their unique
sound by the player buzzing her lips while
blowing air through a cup or funnel-shaped
mouthpiece. To produce higher or lower pitches,
the player adjusts the opening between her lips.
The mouthpiece connects to a length of brass
tubing ending in a bell.

21. Tuba
The tuba is the lowest sounding
member of the brass family. The
tuba has four to five valves.

22. Trumpet
Thetrumpetis the highest sounding
member of the brass family. The player
presses the three valves in various
combinations with the fingers of the
right hand to obtain various pitches.

23. Trombone
The trombone is larger than that a
trumpet, and gives the instrument a
more soft sound. The trombone has a
slide which changes the length of its
approximately 9 feet of tubing to reach
different pitches.

24. Words
Percussion-musical instruments played by striking with the hand
or with a handheld or pedal-operated stick or beater, or by
shaking, including drums, cymbals, xylophones, gongs, bells, and
rattles.
Brass-bronzeis analloyofcopperandzinc.
Gauge-an instrument or device for measuring the magnitude of
something.
Reed-a piece of thin cane or metal, sometimes doubled, that
vibrates in a current of air to produce the sound of various musical
instruments.
Pitch-the degree of highness or lowness of a tone.

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