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An orchestra is made up of several families of instruments: strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion. Examples of string instruments are violins, violas and cellos. Some woodwind instruments are clarinets, flutes and oboes. The percussion family includes cymbals, timpani, snare drums, and many other instruments.
Wind instruments other than brass instruments forming a section of an orchestra, including flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons.
There are four instruments in an orchestra, violins, violas, cellos, and basses and they decrease in pitch respectivly. There are however, five sections. Violin I, violin II, viola, cello, and bass. There are some special pieces however that split other instruments into two sections.
Cymbals belong to the percussion section of an orchestra. Cymbals have, relative to other instruments in an orchestra, an unique timbre which allows them to be heard through the most loudest orchestrations.
Violin, if you mean only string instruments. In other cases, the clarinet.
There are a number of reasons for this. the first and main is so that the rest of the orchestra can hear them properly. the second is because they could block the rest of the orchestra from the audience if they were in the front, as they take up a lot of room. this could stop all of the sound getting through, and make the rest of the orchestra harder to see. There are other reasons as well
That depends on the music. Most often, it is played in a band, with other brass instruments, woodwind instruments, and percussion instruments. It is also played in the orchestra, with other brass instruments, woodwinds, and strings. It can be played in ensembles with other trumpets or brass instruments. Or, it can be played with piano accompaniment.
the instruments in a family are related to each other because they are the same type of instruments.
Listening to an orchestra is a wonderful experience. A lot of people love to listen to the orchestra, because the combination of various musical instruments is very pleasing to the ears. However, if you love listening to the wonderful orchestra, it would be more amazing if you know how this orchestra is set up. If you know how the orchestra is set up, you will have a good understanding as to how the orchestra produces this wonderful music. Once you know how to identify the positions in an orchestra, you will appreciate it that much more, as you will know where to look when you are at a concert. • Know that in an orchestra, instruments are grouped according to their sounds and how they are played. In general, the instruments in the orchestra have their own designated positions. To be able to identify these instruments, you must know that brass instruments are played through a mouthpiece. Examples of which are trumpets, baritones, tubas, slide trombones, and French horns. The brass instruments can usually be most distinctly heard in an orchestral piece. • Identify the woodwind instruments. Woodwind instruments produce mellow and quiet sounds that usually fill other instruments and are often heard in the background. A good example of woodwind instrument is the saxophone or clarinet. • Identify music instruments not only by seeing them but also by the sounds that it produces. Once you are familiar with the musical instruments in an orchestra, you should not only familiarize yourself with the appearance of such instruments but also by knowing how the instrument sounds. You can also look at pictures of orchestras and attend concerts, so that you will be able to look at each instrument and identify and differentiate one type of instrument from another. You will appreciate the beauty of the music produced by instruments if you know a lot about them.
Most musical instrument stores will have Violins and many other instruments for both band and orchestra. Look in your local yellow pages for "Musical Instruments" .
Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass (Pronounced base).
The percussion section has more different instruments than other sections.Strings: Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass, Harp.Woodwinds: Piccolo, Flute, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet, , Bassoon, sometimes Saxophone.Brass: Trumpet, Trombone, Horn, TubaPercussion: Piano, Snare drum, Bass drum, Bells, Chimes, Cymbals, Tam-tam, Xylophone, and others.But in terms of the number of each instrument, as well as the number of players, the string section has far more than the other sections. More than half the players in an orchestra are string players.