If you have ever listened or gone to a symphony, you"ll always be amazed about how each instrument works and why they are so different. Each instrument is very unique in plenty of different ways. They all have there very own method of vibration, pitch and sound, and in a symphony these instruments are classified into brass, woodwinds, strings and percussion. .
Unlike any other group, the brass section of the symphony consists of the trumpets, coronets, French horns, baritones, tubas and trombones. Brass instruments usually have extended piping, and valves to produce notes, and all brass require the musician to buzz into the horn to produce the music. The vibrations produced by the musicians goes through the series of pipes and valves which ultimately go into a bell shape. Among the brass section the trombone is unique in a different way. There are no valves or definite position the musician can take. The musician has to move a slide to lengthen or decrease the passage of air in order to produce any notes. .
The closest section to the brass, although very different is the woodwind section. Woodwinds are the largest section in a symphony and require air to be blown in the place of buzzing. The woodwind section consists of many instruments all separated into three different groups; the single reed instruments, such as the tenor, alto, and baritone saxophones, and alto, bass , and contrabass clarinets. The second group of the woodwinds are the double reeds. Double reed instruments do not require a mouth piece and they consist mainly of just the oboe and bassoon. In double reed instrument the reeds are made of bamboo, and vibrate against each other to produce any music. The third group of woodwinds is the flutes. Flutes , however do not require any reeds, and are traditionally made of metal, and produce notes by forcing air into the small hole in the mouth piece. All woodwinds rely on holes throughout the instrument to control the air as it goes through the horn, making different notes and music by opening and closing holes in specific orders.
