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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. Although I have never been too fond of drums, due to my lack of rhythm, their importance in music history dates back farther than that of the woodwinds. Other kinds of instruments have also interested me, and eventually I found out that instruments are grouped in families, for example, the string family, which contains instruments that have strings either plucked or bowed, one example being the violin. Instruments all have a clear characteristic that can be used to define them, such as String instruments, woodwinds, brass, and percussion.

Clarinet is a woodwind instrument, an instrument which creates sound by vibrating a reed against the mouthpiece of the instrument, sending sound waves down, and out the horn, rather than the string vibrating as with the string family. All of which differ prom percussion, primarily due to the difference that percussion instruments are struck the create vibrations. One funny example is the piano, which could be seen as a string instrument due to the fact that strings great the sound, but rather it is a percussion due to tiny hammers plucking the strings.

One of the weirdest 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. I don't know what orchestra 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. Of the four families of instruments the three discussed are the biggest and most widely known by musicians and and non musicians alike.