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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. The clarinet has been around for a long time, longer than the saxophone for instance. Though clarinets aren't as old as drums. Maybe the drum was the first musical instrument. But I was never particularly interested in drumming. I don't have a good sense of rhythm. Other kinds of instruments have also interested me, and eventually I found out that instruments are grouped in families; There is the string family, the woodwind family, the percussion family, and the brass family.

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

The Clarinet is a woodwind 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 of an instrument in the percussion family 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. One of the weirdest instruments I know of is called the "Glass Harmonica," or "Glass Armonica." It was invented by Benjamin Franklin. It's a bunch of glasses that make a singing sound when the player touches it.

The Brass family includes