Friday, August 8, 2008

InStRuMeNtS

Guitar



The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six strings, but four, seven, eight, ten, and twelve string guitars also exist.

Bass Guitar


Bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick.


Keyboards

These instruments fulfilled two basic and fundamental functions during the baroque period, firstly as solo instruments and secondly as a primary part of the continuos group wherever music was performed, be it chamber music, sacred music or opera.


Drums


Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound.

Mandolin

It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundboard, or one which is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes which are open and are not decorated with an intricately carved grille like the Baroque era mandolins.


Woodwinds


A woodwind instrument is a musical instrument which produces sound when the player blows air against an edge of, or opening in, the instrument, causing the air to vibrate within a resonator.

Strings



A string is the vibrating element that is the source of vibration in string instruments, such as the guitar, harp, piano, and members of the violin family.

Brass

A brass instrument is a musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a tubular resonator.

MuSiC

Music is the science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.