INSTRUMENT CLASSIFICATION

AEROPHONES

• Aerophones are any instruments that make sound by arial vibrations
• They do not use strings or membranes
• EX: Bagpipes, accordian, fench horn, and any other wind instruments.
• They work by someone blowing air into the instrument, causing vibrations.

IDIOPHONES

• Idiophones are instruments that create sound by the instrument vibrating.
• They work by hitting the instrument, which makes it vibrate to add sound.
• EX: Plucked: amplified cactus; Blown: aeoslkavier; Friction: glass harmonica
• The most of them are made out of glass, metal, ceramics, and wood.
• Idiophones are considered part of the percussion section in an orchestra.

MEMBRANOPHONES

• These are any instruments that produce sound by the vibrations of a streched membrane.
• Membranophones include any type of drumss or kazoos.
• It works by having something else hit the streched surface creating vibrations

CHORDOPHONES

• Chordophones are any instrument that are stringed.
• It works by vibrating a string that is streched between two points.
• Examples include harps, violins, guitars, and pianos.