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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, but other kinds of instruments have also interested me. Eventually I found out that instruments are grouped in families, the string family, the percussion family, and then there is the wood wind instrument family. I think there's one more family of instruments but we are only going to talk about three in this essay.

String instruments have strings that are bowed or plucked, one example of a string instrument is the violin. The violin has spread all around the world and there have been many famous violin players. I didn't play violin when I was in school because I played the clarinet.

The clarinet is a wood wind instrument, which is an instrument that you blow through and it or a reed vibrates to make the sound instead of a string vibrating. The clarinet has been around for a long time, longer than the saxophone for instance but clarinets aren't as old as drums, which might be the oldest instrument.

Percussion instruments have to be struck to make a sound, like how you hit a drum with a stick. One funny 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. Also, xylophones are percussion instruments. I was never particularly interested in drumming because I don't have a good sense of rhythm.

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 ochestra 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. It's an instrument even though it fails to fit under the standard of the other instrument families.