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What are main type of musical instruments name?


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  1. We play musical instruments to produce a pleasant sound.
  2. Depending upon the way the air vibrates in musical instruments, they are of five main instruments.
  3. Stringed instruments: In a stringed instrument, music is produced by vibrating a string (usually metal wires). Guitar, veena, sitar, violin are some examples of stringed musical.
  4. Percussion instruments: In that vibrating skin loudness of sound is produced.Drum, tabla, dholak, mridangam are some examples of percussion instruments.
  5. Wind instruments: These musical instruments are generally made in the form pipes. When we blow air into them, the column of air inside vibrates producing a note. Whistle, flute, shehnai, bugle, saxophone, trumpet, nadaswaram are some examples of wind musical instruments.
  6. Reed instruments : Musical instruments like harmonium and mouth organ are called reed instruments. Reed instruments contain metal reeds which produce sound when air is blown produce music sound.
  7. Ghana Vadya Musical instruments like manjira (cymbals),jal tarang, theghatam (mud pot) and the kartal are simply beaten or struck to upper end of the windpipe. Two ligaments called vocal cords are stretched across the voice box or larynx in such a way that it leaves a narrow slit between them for the passage of air

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