What Family Does The Saxophone Belong To?

What family does the saxophone belong to? However, saxophones actually belong to the

woodwind family

. The way that the sound is produced on a saxophone is closest to the clarinet, which is also a single-reed instrument and which uses a similar mouthpiece.

Why isn't the saxophone a brass instrument?

From its earliest days, the saxophone was always made of brass. However,

because it generates sound with a single reed, it is classified as a woodwind

. The only other metallic woodwind is the flute, which was made entirely of wood at first — something that's sometimes seen even today.

What is the string family in music?

The strings are

the largest family of instruments in the orchestra

and they come in four sizes: the violin, which is the smallest, viola, cello, and the biggest, the double bass, sometimes called the contrabass.

What family is the guitar in?

The most common string instruments in the

string family

are guitar, electric bass, violin, viola, cello, double bass, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, and harp.

What instruments belong to the brass family?

The brass family members that are most commonly used in the orchestra include the

trumpet, French horn, trombone, and the tuba

.

• Woodwind Family. There are Flutes, Single Reeds, and Double reeds in this family breakdown, and also include the piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bassoon, and saxophone.
• Flute and Piccolo. …
• Wood. …
• Flute. …
• Single Reed. …
• Clarinet. …
• Saxophone. …
• Double Reed.

woodwind, any of a group of wind musical instruments, composed of the

flutes and reed pipes

(i.e., clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone). Both groups were traditionally made of wood, but now they may also be constructed of metal.

The woodwind family

includes many reed instruments, such as the clarinet, saxophone, oboe, and bassoon. These instruments rely on the vibration of a single or double reed (a piece of cut cane) to create a sound. The family also includes other non-reed instruments such as the flute.

How incredible that a musical instrument could engender so much opposition, from a list including Napoleans' successors, American movie censors, Czarist and Soviet regimes, the Vatican, imperial Japan and the Nazis (thus the title “The Devil's Horn.”

The saxophone is a wind instrument with a reed and the body is made of brass, and so

it forms a bridge between the woodwind and brass sections of the orchestra

.

Idiophones are instruments whose own substance vibrates to produce sound (as opposed to the strings of a guitar or the air column of a flute); examples include

bells, clappers, and rattles

.

Instrument family

• Strings family.
• Keyboard family.
• Woodwind family.
• Brass family.
• Percussion family.

The great majority of musical instruments fall readily into one of six major categories:

bowed strings, woodwind, brass, percussion, keyboard, and the guitar family

, the first four of which form the basis of the modern symphony orchestra.

Musical instruments

Instruments can also be played together to create yet more sounds and harmonies. There are five main instrument families:

strings, woodwind, brass, keyboards, and percussion

.

It's sound is lower in the bassoon. It is the big cousin of the bassoon.

Single Reed woodwind instrument

. It has a brass body and is the newest of the woodwind instruments.

Clash cymbals. Unpitched. 111.142 Idiophone. Better known as

crash cymbals

. Claves.