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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 also wanted to play the drums though I don't have a good sense of rhythm. Maybe the drum was the first musical instrument. But I was never particularly interested in drumming. The music instruments are divided into 5 categories, 3 of which we will talk about; string family, brass family, percussion family.

Other kinds of instruments have also interested me, and eventually I found out that instruments are grouped in families, like 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.

The clarinet has been around for a long time and was categorized into the brass family, longer than the saxophone for instance. But clarinets aren't as old as drums. 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. Which is different from percussion, where you hit 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.

The percussion family has One of the weirdest instruments I know of is called the "glass harmonica." It was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761. Is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction. 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. That one is still a debatable subject under which family it falls under. There are five, and we have talked about three in this essay. As technology advances we will have new intruments invented in the near future which would be uncategorized and debated until being able to place under a certain “musical family”.