The document summarizes different families of musical instruments categorized by how they produce sound. It describes string instruments as those played by bowing, plucking, or striking. Wind instruments are divided into woodwinds like the flute and reed instruments like the clarinet. Percussion instruments make sound through being struck or shaken and have definite or indefinite pitch. The final category is electrophones which include electric instruments and those that use electronics to produce sound.

1. Musical Instruments
Families
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2. Musical Instruments
String To bow
To pluck
To stricke
Wind Woodwind Flute Embouchure
(keys) Reed single
double
Brass Embouchure
(valves)
Percussion definite pitch
indefinite pitch
Electrophones Electric Instruments
Electronics

3. String instruments
(Cordophones)
To blow Violin
Viola
Violonchelo
Double Bass
To pluck Orchestra Harp
Guitar
No-Orchestra
Lute
Mandoline
Banjo
To strike Piano

4. Wind Instruments
(Aerophones)
Wood Flute embouchure or Piccolo
Edge Flute
Reed simple Clarinet
Bass Clarinet
reed
(Saxophone)
double Oboe
English Horn
reed
Bassoon
Contrabassoon
Brass Embouchure Trumpet
Trombone
(valved or slide)
French Horn
Tube

5. Percussion definite pitch indefinite pitch
struck-bar Wooden Xylophone Claves
Marimba Castanets
(mallet bars
Wood block
percussion)
Whip or slapstick
Steely Metalophone Cymbals
Glockenspiel Crotales
bars
Vibraphone Tam-tam (gong)
Tubular Bells Jingle bells
Celesta (keyboard) Triangle
Membranophones Timpani Bass Drum
Snare Drum
Drum
Bongos
Idiophones Maracas
Tambourine

6. Electrophones
Electric Instruments Electric Guitar
Hammond Organ
Electronics Instruments Ondes Martenot
Synthesizer