Musical Instruments
The exhaustive guide to making music! Select the tabs below to explore string, wind, and percussion instruments, plus musical idioms.
Musical Verbs 🎬
Watch Teacher Sopheak explain the action verbs we use for different instruments. We STRUM a guitar, BLOW a trumpet, and BEAT a drum!
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Recent Questions
Hi Sokha! They look very similar, but a Viola is slightly larger than a Violin and produces a deeper, lower sound. The Violin is higher-pitched. 🎻
Is a Piano a string instrument or a percussion instrument?
That is a great question! Technically, it is BOTH. It has strings inside, but those strings are struck by small hammers when you press the keys, which makes it a percussion instrument too. We usually just call it a Keyboard instrument to be safe! 🎹
Teacher, what is the difference between a Violin and a Viola?