Dating to around c. 13,000 BC, a cave painting in the Trois Frères cave in France depicts what some believe is a musical bow, a hunting bow used as a single-stringed musical instrument. From the musical bow, families of stringed instruments developed; since each string played a single note, adding strings added new notes, creating bow harps, harps and lyres.

The Hang (German pronunciation: ; plural form: Hanghang) is a type of musical instrument called a handpan, fitting into the idiophone class and based on the Caribbean steelpan instrument. It was created by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer in Bern, Switzerland.The name of their company is PANArt Hangbau AG. The Hang is sometimes referred to as a hang drum, but the inventors …

An orchestra (/ ˈ ɔːr k ɪ s t r ə /; Italian: [orˈkɛstra]) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.There are typically four main sections of instruments: bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, and double bass; woodwinds, such as the flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon

The pitch of a brass instrument corresponds to the lowest playable resonance frequency of the open instrument. The combined resonances resemble a harmonic series. The fundamental frequency of the harmonic series can be varied by adjusting the length of the tubing using the instrument's valve, slide, key or crook system, while the player's embouchure, lip tension and …

Embouchure (English: / ˈ ɒ m b u ˌ ʃ ʊər / ()) or lipping is the use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument.This includes shaping the lips to the mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument or the mouthpiece of a brass instrument.The word is of French origin and is related to the root bouche, 'mouth'.Proper embouchure allows instrumentalists to play …

Use and construction. The post horn is sometimes confused with the coach horn, and even though the two types of horn served the same principal purpose, they differ in their physical appearance.The post horn has a cylindrical bore and was generally used on a coach pulled by two horses (technically referred to as "Tonga"); hence, it is sometimes also called the Tonga …

Les instruments de percussion — souvent appelés simplement percussion, au féminin — sont des instruments de musique dont l'émission sonore résulte de la frappe ou du grattage d'une membrane ou d'un matériau résonnant. Les instruments de percussion ont probablement constitué les tout premiers instruments de musique et font partie intégrante de la plupart des …

Musical instrument, a device designed to produce musical sounds Experimental musical instrument ; Percussion instrument, which is struck; String instrument, uses vibrating strings; Transposing instrument, allows music to be played in a different key; Wind instrument, which is blown Brass instrument, a sub type of wind instruments

The glockenspiel (German pronunciation: [ˈɡlɔkənˌʃpiːl] or [ˈɡlɔkŋ̍ˌʃpiːl], Glocken: bells and Spiel: set) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout.This makes the glockenspiel a type of metallophone, similar to the vibraphone.. The glockenspiel is played by striking the bars with mallets, often made of a hard ...

The baritone horn, or sometimes just called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family. It is a piston-valve brass instrument with a bore that is mostly conical (like the higher pitched flugelhorn and alto (tenor) horn) but it has a narrower bore compared to the similarly pitched euphonium.It uses a wide-rimmed cup mouthpiece like that of its peers, the …

The flugelhorn (/ ˈ f l uː ɡ əl h ɔːr n /), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B ♭, though some are in C. It is a type of valved bugle, developed in Germany in the early 19th century from a traditional English ...

The quartet lineup is also very common in pop and rock music.A standard quartet formation in pop and rock music is an ensemble typically consisting of a vocalist, an electric guitar, a bass guitar, and a drum kit.This configuration is sometimes modified so that the vocalist also plays guitar, or sometimes a keyboard instrument (e.g., organ, piano, synthesizer) or soloing …

The cornett, cornetto, or zink is an early wind instrument that dates from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, popular from 1500 to 1650. It was used in what are now called alta capellas or wind ensembles. It is not to be confused with the modern cornet.. The sound of the cornett is produced by lip vibrations against a cup mouthpiece, similar to modern brass …

A reed (or lamella) is a thin strip of material that vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument.Most woodwind instrument reeds are made from Arundo donax ("Giant cane") or synthetic material. Tuned reeds (as in harmonicas and accordions) are made of metal or synthetics. Musical instruments are classified according to the type and number of reeds