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Western and Asian Musical Instruments
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Western and Asian Musical Instruments
Western Musical Instruments
• Strings• Woodwinds• Brass• Percussion
-- produce sound from one or more vibrating strings
-- sounded by bowing and plucking– Bowing
String Instruments
• The bow consists of a stick with many hairs stretched between its ends. Bowing the instrument's string causes a stick-slip phenomenon to occur, which makes the string vibrate.
-- produce sound from one or more vibrating strings
-- sounded by bowing and plucking– Bowing – Plucking
String Instruments
a method of playing on instruments by a finger or thumbther quills (now plastic plectra) to pluck the strings.
-- musical instrument that produces sound by vibration of mouthpiece reeds
Woodwind Instruments
• Bassoon• Clarinet• Saxophone
• -- musical instrument that produces sound by vibration of mouthpiece reeds or by passage of air over the mouthpiece.
Woodwind Instruments
a flute is a reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening.
-- musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips
-- came with two families: – Valved
Brass Instruments
• use a set of valves operated by the player's fingers
-- a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips
-- came with two families: – Valved– Slide
Brass Instruments
• use a slide to change the length of tubing
-- a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater, or rubbed by hand, or struck against another similar instrument.
Percussion Instruments
• Clapstick• hang• Xylophone
• Flutes• Stringed Instruments• Percussion Instruments
Asian Musical Instruments
Musicians play this instrument by placing their lips at the top end of the flute and blowing softly.
FLUTES
• Shakuhachi flute• Nose flute
• flutes made from the wing bones of red-crowned cranes
-- The pipa player plucks the strings with his right hand and uses the fingers on his left hand to manipulate the strings to create melodies and sound effects.
Stringed Instruments
• Asian percussion instruments not only provide rhythmic accompaniment, but may also perform dramatic solos. Percussion instruments may also represent specific character roles in productions.
• Asian percussion instruments are divided into three categories:– Wood– Brass– Leather
Percussion
• Wooden xylophone• muyu
• Yunlos (cymbals)
• The frame of this drum consists of thick pieces of hard wood fastened together in a circle and enclosed with a metal band. The bell-shaped drum has an open bottom, while the top gets covered with pig or cow hide. Jing Bangu