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Here is a web that I created in order to teach students about the different types of instruments that build an orchestra. This web can be printed off and handed out to the students so that they can have a visual aid of the different types of musical instruments and their classifications. This web is to be used for beginning orchestra students aswell as elementary general music students. 

Here is a Web of the different instruments in an orchestra.

After handing out this Web to the students, I would also bring in real instruments to class to teach them and why they are classified as strings, brass, etc.

You would need to instruct the students that Strings instruments are called “strings” because they have strings that when bowed or plucked create a sound.

The Brass instruments are all made from Brass and are played with a metal mouthpiece. The  brass material that these instruments are made of gives them their unique sound.

The percussion instruments are all “percussive,” and are made from a variety of different materials (animal skins, wood, metals). All of these instruments create their own sound once hammered with a mallet or drum stick.

Woodwind instruments get their name because they require lots of air to make a sound. They are all composed of different materials aswell (Brass, wood, silver, gold). However, there are two different types of woodwind instruments. As shown in the web, reed instruments include saxophones, oboes, bassoons, and all require a peice of cane reed, which once combined with airvibrates and creates a sound.

The other types of woodwind instruments do not use a reed. The moutpiece is built into these instruments, and the wind is what makes the instruments sound.

The web that I created is a visual aid to teach students the about the basic instruments that are included in an orchestra.