Devices created or adapted for the purpose of making musical sounds
Any object that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument
Classification of musical instruments
Aerophone
Chordophone
Idiophone
Membranophone
Electrophone
Aerophone
Class of musical instruments in which the vibration of air produces the initial sound
Basic types of aerophones
Woodwind
Brass
Free-reed
Saxophones
Hybrids which fuse woodwind and brass
Bagpipes and organs are hybrids with different kinds of pipes
Woodwind instrument
Musical instrument that produces sound when the player blows air against a sharp edge or through a reed, causing the air within its resonator (usually a column of air) to vibrate
Woodwind instruments
Bassoon
Bass Oboe
Bass Clarinet
Clarinet
Flute
Oboe
Piccolo
Contra Bass Clarinet
Brass instrument
Musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips
Brass instruments
Alteration of the player's lip tension and air flow are used to produce different pitches
Slides (or valves) are used to change the length of the tubing, thus changing the harmonic series of the instrument by the player
