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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

Main article: Classification of percussion instruments

Further information: Percussion instrument

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

Main article: Drum

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