The Instrument Families
How Brass Instruments Work
Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom
Great Overview about musical instruments from the brass, woodwind, strings and percussion families. In this short subject video, a stuffy owl teacher lectures his feathered flock on the origins of Western musical instruments. Starting with "cave people", whose crude implements could only "toot, whistle, plunk and boom," the owl explains how these beginnings led to the development of the four basic types of Western musical instruments: Brass, Woodwinds, Strings, and Percussion.
Musical Instrument Sounds (1)
Musical Instrument Sounds (2)
Interactive Instruments of the Orchestra.
