Accordion. The accordion is an instrument with bellows and metal reeds. The player opens and closes the bellows, which pushes air through the reeds when a note is opened by pressing a button or key.
There are five main instrument families: strings, woodwind, brass, keyboards, and percussion.
To understand why the six primary instruments look the way they do, you need to have a basic understanding of how they function. The six primary instruments (the “six-pack”) are the Attitude Indicator (AI), Heading Indicator (HI), Turn Coordinator, Airspeed Indicator, Altimeter, and the Vertical Speed Indicator (VSI).
The Australian Aboriginal people developed three musical instruments - the didjeridu, the bullroarer, and the gum-leaf. Most well known is the didjeridu, a simple wooden tube blown with the lips like a trumpet, which gains its sonic flexibility from controllable resonances of the player's vocal tract.
DIDGERIDOO | YIDAKI
By far the most famous instrument and musical genre to take the world stage from Australia is the DIDGERIDOO (Didjeridu). The instrument is constructed from nothing more than a hollow tree trunk (most traditionally, a eucalyptus trunk hollowed by termites) and some wax along the end one blows into.
The balalaika (Russian: балала́йка, pronounced [bəɫɐˈɫajkə]) is a Russian stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular wooden, hollow body, fretted neck and three strings. Two strings are usually tuned to the same note and the third string is a perfect fourth higher.
What is a 5-string violin? It is a violin, with added viola range. It's that simple. Five strings in descending 5ths: E, A, D, G, C.
Flute – A wind musical instrument made out of wood, bone, metal or some other materials in the form of a tube with various round holes that are covered by fingers or keys.
Yueqin– Moon-shaped lute, also known as sixian, moon lute, Chinese lute, moon guitar, or moon violin.
The oboe just might be the hardest instrument to play because it can take significant time — even years — for a player to produce a musical sound. Most people learning an instrument will become frustrated or demotivated if it just doesn't sound good, so many oboe beginners give up.
Hand Percussion
Think shakers, hand drums, bells, rattles, etc. These instruments are ideal; young ones can easily pick up these with their hands and start making music instantly.
Harp. The harp is different from the other stringed instruments. It's tall, about six feet, shaped a little like the number 7, and has 47 strings of varying lengths, which are tuned to the notes of the white keys of the piano. There are usually one or two harps in an orchestra and they play both melody and harmony.
The 17-string koto (Japanese: 十七絃 or 十七弦, Hepburn: jūshichi-gen, "seventeen strings") is a variant of the koto with 17 strings instead of the typical 13. The instrument is also known as jūshichi-gensō (十七絃箏), "17 stringed koto", or "bass koto" (although koto with a greater number of strings also exist).
A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by plucking with the fingers. It combines features of the lute and harp.
Indigenous music refers to music owned, composed and/or performed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It includes musical styles originating before European settlement, and musical styles which have been taken up by Indigenous musicians since.
Believed to be one of the world's oldest instruments, the didgeridoo dates back some 1,500 years (at the very least). Developed by Australia's Aboriginal people, the cylindrical instrument is made from a hollowed-out tree – often a eucalyptus.