INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA STRINGS The family of instruments which makes up the string section has survived three centuries in its role as the foundation of the orchestra. ... It sits half-way between the violins and percussion: being a stringed instrument struck by the fingers of the player, it belongs to both sections. ... SAXOPHONES The saxophones are the brain-children of the Belgian instrument-maker Adolphe Sax, and were designed as military instruments. ... PERCUSSION Percussion instruments form a big and highly diverse family. They range from a simple block of wood or metal...

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The concert was performance by Katelyn Bouska, a doctoral student at Temple University, who is an active solo and collaborative performer on both historical and modern keyboard instruments. ... The second concert I went to was Korean Percussion Ensembles, performed by Korean music group from our campus. ... In the contrary, Korean percussion performance feature drastic changes in rhythm. Moreover this performance was all about percussion, without the aids of melody and lyrics, which made me be at lost in the performing session. ... From what I learned from class, Mozart famously disliked the f...

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