MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS


Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempometer, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives fromGreek μουσική (mousike; "art of the Muses")
from wikipedia

Accordion

Charles Wheatstone invented the accordion in 1829. The accordion is played by pressing and expanding the air bellows, while the musician presses buttons and keys to force the air across reeds that produce sounds.
CLARINET
Invented around 1690, the clarinet is a single-reed woodwind instrument with a cylindrical tube. The clarinet evolved from an earlier instrument called the chalumeau, the first true single reed instrument.
Johann Christoph Denner of Nuremburg with the help of his son Jacob improved the chalumeau, creating a new instrument called the clarinet. Denner added two keys to the chalumeau and increased that instruments range by over two octaves.

 Double Bass

The earliest known double bass type of instrument dates from 1516. Domenico Dragonetti (1763-1846) was the first great virtuoso of the instrument, and largely responsible for the double bass joining the orchestra.


QUITAR
The guitar is considered a European-invented instrument that first appeared during the medievel period. The form of the modern classical guitar is credited to Spanish guitar maker Antonio Torres circa 1850. Torres increased the size of the guitar body, altered its proportions, and invented the "fan" top bracing pattern. Antonio Torres' design greatly improved the volume, tone, and projection of the instrument, and has remained essentially unchanged.


Oboe

The oboe (hautbois in French) was invented in the 17th century by the French musicians Jean Hotteterre and Michel Danican Philidor. The oboe evolved from the shawm, a double-reed instrument.


PIANO
The piano first known as the pianoforte evolved from the harpsichord around 1700 to 1720, by Italian inventor Bartolomeo Cristofor. Harpsichord manufacturers had been determined to produce an instrument with a better dynamic response than the harpsichord. Bartolomeo Cristofali, the keeper of instruments in the court of Prince Ferdinand de Medici of Florence, was the first to solve the problem.



SAXOPHONE

Quartet of saxophones by Adolphe Sax, Paris



The saxophone was invented by a Belgian manufacturer, Adolphe Sax and exhibited to the world for the first time at the 1841 Brussels exhibition. The saxophone is a relatively young instrument. 
TUBA

The modern tubas owe their existence to the invention of valves or pistons (Ger. Ventile) by two Prussians, Stolzel and Bliimel, in 1815



DRUMS
The drum is the oldest known instrument in the world dating back to 4000 BCE in Egypt in the northeast corner of Africa.It is present throughout every region of Africa playing different roles amongst the various peoples.
Drums made with alligator skins have been found in Neolithic cultures located in China, dating to a period of 5500–2350 BC. In literary records, drums manifested shamanistic characteristics and were often used in ritual ceremonies.
Bronze Dong Son drums are were fabricated by the Bronze Age Dong Son culture of northern Vietnam. They include the ornate Ngoc Lu drum.
FROM WIKIPEDIA
SANTUR


The santur (also santūrsantoursantoor ) (Persianسنتور‎) is a hammered dulcimer]It is a trapezoid-shaped box often made ofwalnut or different exotic woods. The Persian classical santur has 72 strings.
The term santur is of unclear etymology, though theories include the meaning "one hundred strings" in Persian, or derivation from the Greek term psalterion.










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