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=Disorganized Essay Example=

I've always been interested in music, and learning about different musical instruments. When I was a kid I played clarinet in the school band. I have not necessarily played any other instruments, but i always have been particularly interested in the different types of instruments families. There is the string family, the percussion family, and the reed family.

A reed instrument an instrument that has a reed you blow through to make the sound. Instead of say, a string vibrating, the reed vibrates. Which is different from percussion, where you hit the instrument, like how you hit a drum with a stick.

The next family is the percussion family. An instrument in which you strike another element of the instrument to make a sound. One example is the piano. You'd think it was a string instrument, because it has strings in it, but it's a percussion instrument because the strings are hit with little hammers. An xylophones is a percussion instrument as well, because you strike the tiles with a stick, similar to a drum.

One of the weirdest instruments I know of is called the "glass harmonica." It was invented by George Washington. It's a bunch of glasses that make a singing sound. I don't know what orchestra family that would fit under. You don't strike it, you don't play it with a bow, and there's no reeds. I wonder where a singer would go, too. I think there's one more family of instruments. There are four, and we have talked about three in this essay. (Not finished)