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= Types of musical instruments =

A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds. Musical instruments are classified in several ways, for example:


 * By the means used to produce sound
 * By mechanical features of the instrument
 * By the place or culture of origin

Common categories of musical instruments include:


 * Percussion instrument
 * Wind instruments
 * Brass instruments
 * Valved
 * Slide instruments
 * Natural
 * Keyed
 * Woodwind instruments
 * Flutes and whistles
 * Single-reed instruments
 * Double-reed instruments
 * String instruments
 * Instruments with a neck
 * Instruments with a frame
 * Instruments with strings stretched across a box
 * Electronic instruments

Percussion
In a percussion instrument, sound is produced by an object being struck, scraped or rubbed by either another object (e.g. a stick or rattle), a hand or other part of the body, or another instrument. Different types of percussion instruments vary in how the sound created by this action is amplified or modified to produce a musical sound. In a classical orchestra, percussion is divided into three categories:


 * Tuned percussion, including mallet percussion and keyboard percussion instruments like the xylophone and tubular bells, bells and any other melodic percussion instruments.
 * Auxiliary percussion, including all unpitched drums, cymbals and hand percussion.
 * Timpani, which is a pitched (and tunable) drum

Drum
A drum is a membranophone, i.e. an instrument where sound is produced by a vibrating stretched membrane.