Different Musical Instruments

Last updated at Oct. 17, 2024 by Teachoo

There are mainly 4 types of musical instruments:

Stringed musical instruments

Stringed musical instrument produces music by a stretched string.

Example - Guitar, Piano, Sitar

Wind musical instrument produces music by vibration of air columns inside them

Example - Flute, Shehnai

Membrane means a thin skin.

Membrane musical instrument produces music by vibration of thin stretched membranes

Example - Tabla, Drums

Plate type musical instrument produces music by vibration of thick plates.

Example - Cymbals (Manjira), Jal-tarang

Note: When we pluck the string of a guitar, the sound we hear is because of vibration of the whole instrument , not only the string.

NCERT Question 7 - Identify the part which vibrates to produce sound in the following instruments:
(a) Dholak (b) Sitar (c) Flute