Friday, December 17, 2010

Different Types of Musical Instruments

Three summer vacations and one Christmas break is what it took for me to understand that music  is a deep and bottomless sea, devoid of any boundaries. Every single musical instrument, right from the African djembe to the Indonesian gamelan angklung, and the Arabic shababa to the Indian sitar, is a testament to the fact that music is a universal language having multiple dialects. The tongue twisters that some of these musical instrument names are, it took me a while just to get their names right! Anyway, the sheer magnitude of the different musical instruments that I was exposed to from all over the world was mesmerizing and it left me spellbound. It awakened an inner desire which soon manifested into a deep curiosity about the different types of musical instruments existing in the world. I set out on a melodic journey of discovery and here is what I unearthed in the process:


Different Types of Musical Instruments  

Musical instruments from all over the world can broadly be categorized as follows:
  • wind instruments
  • percussion instruments
  • brass instruments
  • string instruments
  • electronic instruments

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