Nadja's Bloooooog.: 04.2011

List of musical instruments:

Brass Instruments:

brass instruments
The French horn, trumpet, trombone, and tuba are brass musical instruments.

French horn
The French horn is a brass musical instrument; it has a very long tube. For a Label Me! printout on the French horn, click here. For a Label Me! printout on the double French horn, click here.

trombone
The trombone is a long, brass, musical instrument.

trumpet
Your lips vibrate when you play a trumpet. Print out a simple trumpet coloring page or label the parts of a trumpet.

tuba
The tuba is a large, brass, musical instrument.

Percussion Instruments:

percussion instruments
Percussion instruments are musical instruments that are played by banging or shaking, like drums or maracas.

bell
A bell makes a beautiful sound when you ring it.

cymbals
Cymbals are musical instruments. You bang or hit these percussion instruments together to make a sound. Print out a simple cymbals coloring page or label the cymbals and other percussion instruments.

drum
Drums are very noisy musical instruments. Print out a simple drum coloring page or label the drum and other percussion instruments.

gong
A gong makes a loud noise when you bang on it.

kettledrum
The kettledrum is a large drum that makes a deep sound. A set of kettledrums is called a timpani.

maracas
Maracas are a musical instrument that are made from hollow gourds. Dried seeds or pebbles inside the gourds make noise when the maracas are shaken. Print out a simple maracas coloring page or label the maracas and other percussion instruments.

piano
A piano is a musical instrument with 88 keys. When you press a key, it causes a wooden hammer to strike a string, making a sound.

rainstick
A rainstick is a ceremonial musical instrument used to invoke the rain spirits. In Chile, rainsticks are traditionally made from dead cactus tubes with hundreds of cactus spines hammered into the tube. Tiny lava pebbles cascade gently through the tube, sounding much like rain.

rattle
A rattle makes noise when you shake it.

tambourine
A tambourine is a musical instrument. Print out a simple tambourine coloring page or label the tambourine and other percussion instruments.

triangle
A triangle is a musical instrument that has a triangular shape. Print out a simple triangle coloring page or label the triangle and other percussion instruments.

xylophone
The xylophone is a musical instrument that has rows of bars and is played with a mallet. Print out a simple tambourine coloring page or label the xylophone and other percussion instruments.

String Instruments:

string instrument
String instruments are musical instruments that are played by plucking, strumming, picking, or bowing the strings. The guitar, violin, viola, cello, double bass, ukulele, lute, harp, and banjo are stringed instrument.

banjo
The banjo is a stringed musical instrument.

Bow
The bow is used to play many string instruments, including the violin, viola, cello, and double bass.

cello
A cello is a large string instrument.

double bass
A double bass is a very large string instrument.

electric guitar
The electric guitar is an electronically-enhanced stringed instrument.

fiddle
A fiddle is another word for violin. It is a stringed musical instrument.

guitar
A guitar is a stringed instrument. Print out a simple guitar coloring page or label the parts of a guitar.

harp
A harp is a musical instrument with many strings. Print out a simple harp coloring page or label the parts of a harp.

ukulele
A ukulele is a small instrument with four strings.

viola
The viola is a stringed instrument that is slightly larger than the violin (and deeper in tone than the violin).

violin
The violin is a small, stringed instrument. Print out a simple violin coloring page. For a violin Label Me! printout, click here For more complex violin Label Me! printout, click here.

zither
A zither is a small, stringed, musical instrument.

Woodwind Instruments:

Woodwind instrument
Woodwind instruments are wind instruments whose sound is produced by the vibration of reed(s) in the mouthpiece. The bassoon, clarinet, English horn, flute, oboe, piccolo, and saxophone are examples of woodwinds.