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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. I was never particularly interested in drumming. I don't have a good sense of rhythm. Other kinds of instruments have also interested me. I eventually found out that instruments are grouped in families; like there is the string family which is instruments that have strings and that are bowed or plucked. One example is the violin; I have heard of many famous violin players but I didn't play violin when I was in school, 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 also.

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, and you don't play it with a bow but 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.