A PPT ON SOME FAMOUS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WITH PICTURE AND INFORMATION

1. Musical Instruments!
Music H.W By Pratham Goradia

2. String
Instruments

3. Harp
• The harp is a stringed
musical instrument
that has a number of
individual strings
running at an angle to
its soundboard; the
strings are plucked

4. Double Bass
• The double bass,
also known simply
as the bass, is the
largest and lowest-
pitched bowed,
string instrument in
the modern
symphony
orchestra. The bass
is a standard

5. Violin
•
The violin,
sometimes known
as a fiddle, is a
wooden string
instrument in the
violin family. Most
violins have a
hollow wooden

6. Cello
• The cello or
violoncello is a
bowed string
instrument of the
violin family. Its four
strings are usually
tuned in perfect
fifths: from low to

7. Piano
•
The piano is an
acoustic, stringed
musical instrument
invented in Italy by
Bartolomeo
Cristofori around
the year 1700, in
which the strings

8. 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

9. Morin Khuur
• The morin khuur, also
known as the
horsehead fiddle, is a
traditional Mongolian
bowed stringed
instrument. It is one of
the most important
musical instruments
of the Mongol people,

10. Topshur
• The Tovshuur, also
known as Topshur
or Tovshuur is a two
or three-stringed
lute played by the
Western
Mongolian(Oirats)
tribes called the
Altai Urianghais, the
Altais, and the
Tuvans. The topshur

11. Ukulele
• The ukulele or
ukelele is a member
of the lute family of
instruments. It
generally employs
four nylon strings.

12. Sitar
• The sitar is a
plucked stringed
instrument,
originating from the
Indian subcontinent

13. Banjo
• The banjo is a four,
five, or six 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

14. Mandolin
• A mandolin is a
stringed musical
instrument in the
lute family and is
usually plucked with
a plectrum

15. Lyre
• A stringed
instrument like a
small U-shaped harp
with strings fixed to
a crossbar, used
especially in ancient
Greece. Modern

16. Lute
• A plucked stringed
instrument with a
long neck bearing
frets and a rounded
body with a flat front,
rather like a halved
egg in shape.

17. Oud
• The oud is a short-
neck lute-type, pear-
shaped stringed
instrument, usually
with 11 strings
grouped in 6
courses, but some
models have 5 or 7
courses, with 10 or
13 strings

18. Percussion
Instruments

19. Drum
• The drum is a
member of the
percussion group of
musical instruments.
In the Hornbostel-
Sachs classification
system, it is a
membranophone.[1]
Drums consist of at
least one membrane,
called a drumhead or

20. Xylophone
• The xylophone
(from the Greek
words ξύλον—
xylon, "wood"[1] +
φωνή—phōnē,
"sound, voice",[2]
meaning "sound
off wood") is a
musical
instrument in the

21. Tambourine
• The tambourine is
a musical
instrument in the
percussion family
consisting of a
frame, often of
wood or plastic,
with pairs of small
metal jingles,
called "zills".

22. Marimba
• The marimba
(/məˈrɪmbə/) is a
percussion
instrument
consisting of a set of
wooden bars struck
with yarn or rubber
mallets to produce
musical tones.
Resonators or pipes
suspended
underneath the bars

23. Snare Drum
• The snare drum or
side drum is a
percussion
instrument that
produces a sharp
staccato sound when
the head is struck
with a drum stick,
due to the use of a
series of stiff wires
held under tension

24. Bongo
• Bongos (Spanish:
bongó) are an Afro-
Cuban percussion
instrument
consisting of a pair
of small open
bottomed drums of
different sizes.

25. Bell
• A bell is a directly
struck idiophone
percussion
instrument. Most
bells have the
shape of a hollow
cup that when
struck vibrates in a
single strong strike
tone, with its sides
forming an efficient

26. Cymbal
• A cymbal is a
common percussion
instrument. Often
used in pairs,
cymbals consist of
thin, normally round
plates of various
alloys. The majority
of cymbals are of
indefinite pitch,
although small disc-
shaped cymbals
based on ancient

27. Tabla
• The tabla[nb 1] is a
membranophone
percussion
instrument
originating from the
Indian subcontinent,
consisting of a pair
of drums, used in
traditional, classical,
popular and folk
music.[1] It has been
a particularly
important instrument

28. Gong
A gong[note 1] is an
East and Southeast
Asian musical
percussion instrument
that takes the form of
a flat, circular metal
disc which is hit with a
mallet.

29. Wood Block
A wood block (also
spelled as a single
word, woodblock) is a
small slit drum made
from a single piece of
wood and used as a
percussion instrument

30. Chime
•
A carillon-like
instrument with fewer
than 23 bells is called a
chime.
The first bell chime was
created in 1487.[citation
needed] Before 1900,
chime bells typically
lacked dynamic
variation and were not
harmonically tuned.
Since then chime bells
produced in Belgium,
the Netherlands,

31. Wind
Instruments

32. Wind Instruments Collage

33. Clarinet
The clarinet is a family
of woodwind
instruments. It has a
single-reed
mouthpiece, a
straight, cylindrical
tube with an almost

34. •
Trumpet/ Trombo-
Marina
The trumpet is a brass
instrument commonly used
in classical and jazz
ensembles. The trumpet
group ranges from the
piccolo trumpet with the
highest register in the
brass family, to the bass
trumpet, which is pitched

35. Saxophone
The saxophone is a
family of woodwind
instruments usually
made of brass and
played with a single-

36. Bassoon
The bassoon is a
woodwind
instrument in the
double reed family
that plays music
written in the bass

37. Flute
The flute is a family of
musical instruments in
the woodwind group.
Unlike woodwind
instruments with reeds,
a flute is an aerophone
or reedless wind
instrument that

38. Oboes
The Oboes are usually
made of wood, but
may also be made of
synthetic materials,
such as plastic, resin
or hybrid composites.
The most common

39. Trombone
The trombone is a
musical instrument in
the brass family. As
with all brass
instruments, sound is
produced when the
player's vibrating lips

40. .
Tuba
The tuba is the lowest-
pitched musical instrument
in the brass family. As with
all brass instruments, the
sound is produced by lip
vibration, or a buzz, into a
large mouthpiece. It first
appeared in the mid-19th
century, making it one of

41. French Horn
The French horn is a brass
instrument made of tubing
wrapped into a coil with a
flared bell. The double horn
in F/B♭ is the horn most
often used by players in
professional orchestras
and bands. A musician who
plays a horn is known as a