The

ABCsof Musical

Instruments

Kim Treat

Accordion

• An accordion is an instrument that is held in front of the body and is played by keys and bellows.

Bagpipes

• Bagpipes are a musical wind instrument with a bag and pipes. When we think of bagpipes, we think of the country of Scotland.

Clarinet

• A clarinet is a musical instrument shaped like a long tube that is played by blowing air through a reed at the top.

Drum

• A drum is a round instrument, that has skins stretched over the open ends.When beaten, it gives a loud booming or rattling sound.

Euphonium

• An euphonium is a large wind instrument that makes deep sounds when air is blown into the mouthpiece.

Flute

• A flute is a musical instrument shaped like a tube, with finger holes that make different sounds when air is blown through a hole at one end.

Guitar

• A guitar is a musical instrument with six strings and a body that makes sound when the strings are strummed.

Harp

• A harp is a large instrument with strings stretched across a triangular frame. Sound is made when the strings are played with the fingers.

Instruments

• An instrument is a machine for making musical sounds.

Jingle Bells

• Jingle bells are musical instruments used to make a clinking or tinkling sound.

Keyboard

• An electronic keyboard is a musical instrument used to make different sounds by striking keys.

Lute

• A lute is an old-time string instrument, much like a guitar.

Mandolin

• A mandolin is a musical instrument with a pear-shaped body and a set of strings, much like a guitar.

Nyckelharpa

• A nyckelharpa is a musical instrument that has been played in Sweden for over 600 years. It has 16 strings that are played with a bow.

Oboe

• An oboe is a musical instrument shaped like a tube and played by blowing air into a double-reed mouthpiece.

Piano

• A piano is a musical instrument that makes sounds when the keys are pressed, causing little mallets to strike strings inside the body.

Quena Flute

• A quena flute is a musical instrument shaped like a tube with six finger holes and a notch in the top to blow into.

Rain Sticks

• Rain sticks are musical instruments that are usually made from bamboo or cactus sticks with beads inside to create the sound of falling rain.

Saxophone

• A saxophone is a large musical instrument with a curved tubular shape. Sound is made by blowing into the mouthpiece at the top.

Trumpet

• A trumpet is a metal wind instrument with three valves for making different sounds.

Ukulele

• A ukulele is a musical instrument that looks like a small four-stringed guitar, popular in Hawaii.

Violin

• A stringed musical instrument held under the chin and played with a bow

Windchimes

• Windchimes are musical instruments that make sounds when the wind blows metal or wooden tubes.

Xylophone

• A musical instrument made out of wooden or metal bars that make sound when hit with mallets.

Yueqin

• A yueqin is a Chinese musical instrument much like a guitar, with two strings and a round box which produces sound.

Zither

• A zither is a harp like musical instrument that is laid flat to play.