Musical Instruments – Accordion, Bagpipes, And Celesta
They are easily hundreds of them if you include every percussion instruments.
The ones that we are familiar with can be found in many orchestra.
Let’s take a look at a few today:
Accordion: An accordion is an instrument that has a small keyboard on the front and free-vibrating metal reeds that make noise when air is generated in a pumping motion of the main body of the instrument. I remembered my grade school teacher played this instrument during the music class. I was always amazed when he moved the instrument around. If you can play piano, you can probably figure out how to play this instrument.
Greece Bagpipes: The bagpipes are a wind instrument that most people recognize as a native Scottish instrument. Bagpipes comes in different types and are most popular in Europe countries. Many versions of Amazing Grace are arranged with bagpipes.
The bagpipes have several tubes; one of the tubesplays the melody while the other tubes sound the drones and the held notes. What happens is the windbag is filled by the player through a mouthpiece. Then when the bag is squeezed the air pushed out creates the sound.
Celesta: This is a keyboard instrument which looks just like anormal upright piano except a miniature version of one. It has tuned metal plates instead of cords that are struck by the hammers. The hammers, like on a normal piano are operated by the keys on the keyboard. If you can play piano, I am most certain you can play a celesta. In fact, I like the sound of this instrument quite a bit.
Almost all of the above instruments origined from the European countries.
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