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toader
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7/22/2006 | posted: 7/22/2006 at 12:27:58 PM ET
I am teaching a music merit badge to boyscouts and they mentioned 5 types of musical instruments. I know that there are woodwind, brass, string and percussion but what is the fifth one. I have studied music since 3rd grade and do not know the answer to this question.
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Anonymous
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| posted: 7/22/2006 at 11:23:50 PM ET
Sometimes it is keyboards, sometimes it is elecronic music.
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Anonymous
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| posted: 7/29/2006 at 8:49:00 AM ET
Have you heard of the Sachs-Hornbostel System? It classifies instruments into five different categories. Maybe this is what your boyscouts are referring to? There's an article here http://musiced.about.com/od/musicinstruments/a/musicinstrument.htm
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 maintube
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5/26/2004 | posted: 7/30/2006 at 12:02:05 PM ET
This seems a bit complicated for what he is refering to.
I'm leaning toward electronic or the human voice. Human voice being my choice. Some might say the keyboards. Piano, however is hammered like a percussion and some people classify the piano as percussion instrument. A true pipe organ sounds are created by air pressure, so could it be argued that it is a wind instrument. The harpsichord sound is created by the plucking of a string so is it a string instrument?
I lean toward these 5 choices.
Voice
Percussion
String
Brass
Woodwind
I listed them in order of historical significance (my opinion).
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 imnidiot
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3/28/2005 | posted: 7/31/2006 at 10:07:27 PM ET
Bravo Maintube for being the brave one to choose the voice as the fifth instrument. Thyat was my choice when the post was first listed, but being the novice that I am, I waited to see if anyone with more music experience would go first. I wouldn't pick electronic instruments, because they tend to mimic instruments from one of the other four groups, with the exception of the synthesizers which create unique sounds not produced by traditional instruments.
I am a fragment of my imagination
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maintube
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5/26/2004 | posted: 7/31/2006 at 10:41:38 PM ET
Thanks. Seemed to be the logical choice.
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Anonymous
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| posted: 8/25/2006 at 4:06:24 PM ET
Thanks a bunch! I needed this to finish my merit badge! MWA HA HA HA HA! Dang, I couldn't figure the fifth out for the life of me. I hope my conselour accepts it.
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maintube
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5/26/2004 | posted: 9/6/2006 at 12:08:18 AM ET
Let us know how it came out.
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