Musical instruments: traditional classification

Musical instruments: traditional classification

1. String instruments

   • Bowed string instruments: they are played with a bow
   • Plucked string instruments: strings are played by the fingers
   • Struck string instruments: strings are beaten by hammers

2. Winds

   • Brass
   • Woodwinds
     • Reed instruments
       • Single reed
       • Double reed
     • Flutes
   • Mechanical: the wind isn't blown by any person

3. Percussion instruments

   • Pitched percussion instruments: they can play melodies
   • Unpitched percussion instruments: they can`t play melodies, just rhythms

4. Electronic instruments

Images and files in the map

• Ligeti: Violin Concerto / Kopatchinskaja · Rattle · Berliner Philharmoniker (Embed)
• Trumpet Player Disagrees with Bernstein in Rehearsal - BBC Orchestra (Embed)
• Hallelujah - Toms Abelis oboe instrumental Cover (Embed)
• Top Secret Drum Corps - Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2012 - 720p HD (Embed)
• Mechanism in an upright piano (Embed)