Woodwind Family Of Instruments

Family of Music
When the term orchestra is defined, it is stated to be a group of instruments, especially on combining string, woodwind, brass, and percussion sections and playing classical music. But it is much more than just a group of instruments. More like a family of instruments, and when together they make beautiful classical music for everyone to enjoy. The orchestra is composed of four major instrument families, the string family, the woodwind family, the brass family, and the percussion family. The strings are the largest family of instruments in the orchestra. It has four major instruments the violin, which is the smallest, viola, cello, and the biggest, the double bass. The smaller instruments, the violin and viola, make a higher-pitched sound, and the larger cello and double bass make low rich sounds. They are all shaped very similar to one another, with curvy wooden bodies and wooden necks. The strings stretch over the body and neck and attach to small decorative heads, where they are tuned with small tuning pegs. …show more content…
The woodwind family consists of, the piccolo, the flute, the oboe, the English horn, the clarinet, the e-flat clarinet, the bass clarinet, the bassoon, and the contrabassoon. All instruments of this family originally were made of would which is how the name “woodwind” came about. Instruments in this family today, are made up of metal, would and, plastic. They are all narrow pipes, with holes, with an opening at the bottom end and a mouthpiece at the top. You play them by blowing into the mouthpiece and opening or closing the holes with your fingers to change the pitch. Metal caps called keys cover the holes of most woodwind