This document provides information about various musical instruments, including their descriptions, typical prices, and famous players. It discusses that playing an instrument can improve cognitive abilities and social skills while relieving stress. Specific instruments covered include the banjo, classical guitar, drums, harp, piano, and violin. Price ranges and famous musicians are listed for each. The document also defines musical genres such as rock, pop, and classical music and provides examples of each.

2. What is the use of Instruments?
5 Basic Reasons of what is the use of an Instruments
1. Playing an instrument makes you smarter.
2.Your social life will improve.
3.Playing an instrument relieves stress.
4.Playing an instrument gives you a sense of achievement.
5.It builds your confidence and helps to improve the
memory.

4. Banjo
• The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin
membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a
resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and
usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin.
Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by
African-Americans in the United States, adapted from
African instruments of similar design. The banjo is
frequently associated with folk and country music,
and has also be used in some rock songs. Several
rock bands, such as The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, and
The Allman Brothers, have used the five-string banjo
in some of their songs. Historically, the banjo
occupied a central place in African-American
traditional music and the folk culture of rural whites
before entering the mainstream via the minstrel
shows of the 19th century. Along with the fiddle, the
banjo is a mainstay of American styles of music, such
as Bluegrass and old-time music. It is also very
frequently used in traditional jazz.

5. Classical Guitar
• The guitar is a fretted musical instrument
that usually has six strings.It is typically
played with both hands by strumming or
plucking the strings with either a guitar pick
or the fingers/fingernails of one hand, while
simultaneously fretting (pressing the
strings against the frets) with the fingers of
the other hand. The sound of the vibrating
strings is projected either acoustically, by
means of the hollow chamber of the guitar
(for an acoustic guitar), or through an
electrical amplifier and a speaker.
• (sources are taken in wikipedia)

6. Prices for Classical Guitar and Famous Guitarist
• The cheapest price is around $40(1,929.28php) and can
go up to $5000(241,160php). Relax. You will also find
many models of guitars at low prices, around
$130(6,270.16 php)which is quite good for a classical
guitar.
• Famous Classical Guitarist (Still Alive)
• Julian Bream (84 years old)
• David Russell (64 years old)
• John Williams (76 years old)

7. The Best Guitarist
Jimi Hendrix has been voted the
Greatest Guitarist Of All Time by
readers of the Louder website.
Over 70,000 votes were cast in
the poll, with Hendrix topping a
list of 50 guitarists, followed by
Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen,
David Gilmour, Eric Clapton and
Stevie Ray Vaughan

8. Drums
• Drums are used to keep a
steady beat in a song.
They give music of many
kinds a sense of feeling.
For example, to make a
song to be slow or fast, the
drums play slower or
faster. A drum is a
percussion instrument,
which means it makes a
noise by being hit.

9. Drum Prices and Famous Drummers
• A drum set costs between $300(14,466.60 php) and $1,000(48,222 php)on
average.
• Famous Drummers
• 8 – Ginger Baker
• 7 – Ramon “Tiki” Fulwood
• 6 – Dave Groh
• 5 – Keith Moon
• 4 – Buddy Rich
• 3 – Stewart Copeland
• 2 – Neil Peart.
• 1 – John Bonham

10. The Most Greatest Drummer Of All Time
• John Bonham
• Usually considered the
greatest drummer of all
time, John Bonham of Led
Zeppelin was known for
his instinct and feel of the
groove, which shined
through his love of speed,
fast kick drumming, and
hard-hitting power

11. Harp
• Used in the ancient Mediterranean
and Middle East, the harp is a
multi-stringed instrument that has a
resonator that vibrates with the
movement of strings, producing the
sound of the notes. The harp has
gone through several changes over
time and is still popular in modern
music and orchestras today.

12. Harp Prices and Famous Harp Player
• A harp can cost you anywhere from just hundreds of dollars, if
you're incredibly lucky, to $180,000 if you're wanting the crème de
la crème. Folk or lever harps will probably cost $1,000-$5,000.
Pedal harps start around $10,000 and go up. All plus tax, of
course.
• Famous Harp Players
• Nancy Allen. Nancy Allen
• Dr. Alfredo Rolando Ortiz
• Yolanda Kondonassis

13. The best harp players currently active
From all over the world and include
such musicians as Judy Loman,
Elizabeth Hainen, Erica Goodman,
The Harp Twins, and Jennifer Swartz.
To become one of the best harp
players in the world takes great
commitment, a strong work ethic, and
composure.

14. Piano
• The piano may be the best
known and loved of all musical
instruments. It also has the
broadest range of any
instrument, so music for all
other instruments can be
composed on it. It can be
played solo, but most other
instruments, including the
voice, use the piano for
accompaniment.

15. Piano Prices
• An upright piano costs between $3000 – $6500(144,717-
313,553.50 php) on average.
• High-end upright pianos average around $10,000 –
$25,000(482,390-1,205,975 php).
• Entry level grand pianos costs between $7000 –
30,000(337,673 - 1,447,170php).
• High-end grand pianos such as Steinway, Bosendorfer,
and Yamaha can cost between $65,000 –
$190,000(3,135,535-9,165,410 php)

16. Famous Pianist
• Ludwig van Beethoven
One of his commonly known
music is the Moonlight
Sonata
Here's the link if you want to
hear the song
https://www.youtube.com/wa
tch?v=4Tr0otuiQuU

17. Violin
• The violin is the smallest and
highest pitched string
instrument typically used in
western music. A person who
plays the violin is called a
violinist. A person who makes
or repairs violins is called a
luthier. The violin is important
in European and Arabian
music.

18. Prices for Good Violin
• Begin at around $900(43,433.10 php), with higher end
models listed for approximately $2000-$2500 (96,518-
120,647.50 php). But remember to keep in mind that
every violin is unique.

19. Famous Violinist
• The most famous violinist is
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
• Vivaldi's is arguably the most well
known virtuoso violinist in history. At
the time of his death, Vivaldi's
music was not popular at all but it
was brought back to popularity
when Fritz Kreisler and Alfred
Casella brought it back to life during
their era of the 20th Century.

20. What is Musical Genre?
• A music genre is a conventional category that identifies
some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition
or set of conventions.The artistic nature of music means
that these classifications are often subjective and
controversial, and some genres may overlap.

21. Here are some Music Genre
• Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that
originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the
late 1940s and early 1950s.
• Pop is a genre of popular music that originated in its
modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States
and the United Kingdom.
• Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the
traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical and
secular music.

22. • Group 1
• Jehrico Khalil Francheska Kathleen Argy Julianna
• Adviser
• Sir Marck Yranon