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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, and the clarinet has been around for a long time, longer than the saxophone for instance. Other kinds of instruments have also interested me, and eventually I found out that instruments are grouped in families. There are four families of instruments: strings, woodwinds, percussion, and brass.

There is the string family, which is instruments that have strings that are bowed or plucked. One example is the violin. There have been many famous violin players, and also the violin has spread all around the world. I didn't play violin when I was in school, though, because I played clarinet.

Clarinet is a reed instrument, which is an instrument that has a reed you blow through to make the sound. Instead of a string vibrating, the reed vibrates.

Percussion instruments are used by hitting the instrument, 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.

Brass is the last family.This family includes: the trumpet, trombone, tuba, and many more instruments. Brass instruments are played by blowing into them, a lot like woodwind.

Overall, the four families of instruments: strings, woodwinds, percussion, and brass are each unique and together they form an orchestra.