There’s More to Playing the Piano

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Chapter 27 - General Knowledge

Musical instruments are grouped in families. The instruments of the orchestra are classed as strings, woodwind, brass, and percussion. Mechanised instruments like the piano and the organ are harder to classify so we often call them keyboard instruments. Note that the saxophone is a woodwind instrument because, although it is made of brass, it produces its sound with a reed much like the clarinet. The General Knowledge tables opposite show the instruments of each family and indicate what clefs they usually read. Some of the woodwind and brass instruments are transposing instruments. Tenor and...