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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. But clarinets aren't as old as flutes. The flute was the first musical instrument, dating back 40,000 years. But I was never particularly interested in the flute. Other kinds of instruments have also interested me, and eventually I found out that instruments are grouped in families, for example, 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 the clarinet. There are four families of instruments, brass, strings, woodwind, percussion.

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. Another example of a percussion instrument is a xylophone.

One of the strangest 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. It would most likley fit under the percussion family. I wonder what family a singer would go into.There are four families of instruments, the brass family, the strings family, the woodwind family, and lastly, the percussion family.