Instrument Family Examples

For my first video I chose an instrument from the woodwind family. The flute is in the woodwind family because you have blow across a surface, in this case the aperture, a hole in the mouthpiece. This video is interesting because the guy beatboxes the Inspector Gadget theme song while playing. I think it's a neat way to show how a musician can manipulate the sound his instrument makes.

This gentleman is playing a french horn. It is in the brass family. Brass instruments get their sound from buzzing your lips into a mouthpiece, then the air travels throughout the pipes and gets cut off in different areas when the keys are pressed down. This guy uses technology in a cool way and loops different recordings he makes to play all the parts to a popular song. 

String instruments like the violin produce sound by making the strings vibrate. This can be done by sliding a bow across the strings or plucking them. I would love to learn to play the violin. 

For the percussion family I used a video of the WVU Drumline. I was part of WVU Marching Band for four years and I couldn't think of a better example of percussion instruments all playing together. A percussion instrument's sound is created by hitting something. This could be drums, cymbals, xylophones, a cowbell, etc.