Musical instruments are used to produce a variety of sounds. There is a division of musical instruments into several main groups according to the method of sound production, material of manufacture and sound source.
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One of the largest groups is wind instruments or "aerophones". These include instruments in which the source of sound is the vibrations of a column of air in the barrel (tube). In a classical symphony orchestra, wind musical instruments are divided into copper (French horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba) and wood (oboe, flute, bassoon, clarinet). There is also a more detailed classification according to the design and methods of sound production.
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Metallophones include all musical instruments, whose main element is keys or plates, which must be hit with a special hammer. This group is divided into two subgroups. A variety of gongs, bells and vibraphones are called self-sounding instruments, in which the metal body itself acts as the sound source, the sound is extracted from it with sticks, hammers and special percussionists (in the case of a bell, for example, the tongue acts as such a drummer). The second subgroup includes instruments of the xylophone type, the sound from it can be extracted only with the help of constant mechanical action with special hammers.
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Another large group of musical instruments is strings. According to the method of sound production, they are divided into plucked (guitar, gusli, harp, balalaika), bowed (cello, violin, kemancha, gidzhak), percussion (cymbals), plucked keyboards (clavichord and harpsichord) and percussion keyboards (grand piano, piano) … This is a very large group. In classical symphony orchestras, stringed musical instruments are usually understood as bowed instruments.
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Keyboards have a common feature - the presence of a keyboard and keyboard mechanics. These instruments often overlap with other groups, for example, the grand piano is both a string instrument and a keyboard instrument.
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To extract sound from percussion musical instruments, as the name suggests, requires a punch. In such instruments, the sound sources can be a membrane, a solid body, or even a string. There are percussion instruments with an indefinite pitch, these include tambourines, castanets, drums, and with a certain pitch, they include timpani, xylophones and bells.
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Electromusical instruments are those in which sound arises from the generation and transformation of various electrical signals. Such instruments can imitate various classical musical instruments, while they usually have an interesting peculiar timbre. These include electric guitars, electric organs, theremin, emiriton and others.
