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=Disorganized Essay Example=

I've always been interested in music, and learning about different musical instruments. I was never particularly cared for drumming, I never have a good sense of rhythm. There were other kinds of instruments that had my curiosity and eventually, I found out that instruments are grouped in families.

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

When I was a kid, I played clarinet in the school band, and the clarinet has been around for a long time, much longer than the saxophone. The 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. But clarinets aren't as old as drums. Which is different from percussion, where as when you strike the instrument, like how you hit a drum with a stick. Maybe the drum was the first musical instrument.

A 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.

One of the strangest instruments that I know of, is called the "glass harmonica." Which was invented by George Washington. It's basically 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.

I believe that there are more than just one family of instruments. There are four, and we have talked about three in this essay.