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  • Home
  • General Music
    • PreK, Kinder & 1st Grade
    • 2nd & 3rd Grades
    • 4th & 5th Grades
  • Curriculum
    • Singing Games
    • Sing-a-longs >
      • Folk Songs
      • Patriotic Songs
      • School Songs
      • Silly Songs
      • Songtales
      • Spirituals
    • Instrument Families
    • Elements of Music >
      • Pitch
      • Duration
      • Dynamics
      • Tempo
      • Texture
      • Timbre
      • Form
    • Makerspace
    • Movement & Dance
    • Music Tech Games
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Instrument Families

Its not what the instrument is made of, but rather how the sound is produced that determines what family the instrument belongs:
  • Strings: pluck or bow the string
  • Brass: buzz your lips
  • Woodwinds: blow air
  • Percussion: hit, shake or scrape

The links below highlight the instruments in each family. You can also play the Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra scavenger hunt which you can find on our Music Tech page. Just select Local Game and then Practice Round.

String Family

Violin
Viola
Cello
Double Bass
Harp

Brass Family

Trumpet
French Horn
Trombone
Tuba

Woodwind Family

Piccolo
Flute
Oboe
English Horn
Clarinet
Bassoon
Alto Saxophone
Recorder

Percussion Family

Timpani
Xylophone, Vibraphone & Glockenspiel
Piano
Drum Corps

Additional Resources

Disney: History of Musical Instruments
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
Picture
Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Scavenger Hunt
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  • General Music
    • PreK, Kinder & 1st Grade
    • 2nd & 3rd Grades
    • 4th & 5th Grades
  • Curriculum
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    • Sing-a-longs >
      • Folk Songs
      • Patriotic Songs
      • School Songs
      • Silly Songs
      • Songtales
      • Spirituals
    • Instrument Families
    • Elements of Music >
      • Pitch
      • Duration
      • Dynamics
      • Tempo
      • Texture
      • Timbre
      • Form
    • Makerspace
    • Movement & Dance
    • Music Tech Games
    • Resources
  • JAMM
  • Dippers
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