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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. But 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, 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.

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.

One of the weirdest instruments I know of is called the "glass armonica." It was invented by George Washington. Benjamin Franklin It's 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 think there's one more family of instruments. There are four, and we have talked about three in this essay.

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I have always been interested in music and learning about different musical instruments. When I was a kid I played the clarinet in the school band. The clarinet has been around for a long time, even longer than the saxophone. But clarinets haven't been around as long as drums or bone flutes, which are known to be the first musical instrument. I was never particularly interested in drumming since I don't have a good sense of rhythm. Over time I found out that instruments are grouped in families. Some of the instruments I'm most interested in belong in the string family, the woodwind family, and the percussion family.

The string family consists of string instruments (or chordophones) that have strings that are bowed or plucked. One example of this is the violin. There have been plenty of famous violin players which slowly made the violin popular all over the world. Another example of a beautiful string instrument is the harp. The harp is an old instrument that at one time was very popular, and it makes music by plucking the strings with your fingers. One more example is the guitar which is popular among people of all ages. The guitar is a fretted instrument that normally has 6 strings. It is usually played by plucking the strings with your fingers or a guitar pick.

The woodwind family has many instruments including the clarinet, the flute, and the bassoon. 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. The flute is also a woodwind, even though it's not used with a reed.