Delicious Instruments
A guide to the Orchesta
A journey through all the orchestral instruments
Banjo, Dobro, Tin whistle
Bela Fleck & friends
Flute
Air blown through a metal tube
Piano - classical
Metal strings hit by key-operated mallets
Fantasia - The sorcerers apprentice
Disney animation set to iconic symphonic compositions
Clarinet
Air passing through a reed attached to a wooden tube with keys
Classical guitar
Plucked strings, amplified by a wood body
Piano - pop
Metal strings hit by key-operated mallets.
Organ
Air pushed through pipes, determined by keys
Harmonica
Air blown through metal reeds
Sax
Henri Mancini Medley - Pink Panther, Baby Elephant walk, Peter Gunn
Tin whistle
Air blown through a metal tube
Street band
Cello
Horse-hair sliding over strings, amplified by a wooden body
Bass guitar
Thick metal strings plucked and amplified electronically
Voice
Fiddler on the Roof - a musical about Jewish life
Theatre
An animated musical about Russian mice escaping to America
Storytelling
Clarinet, trumpet, trombone, washboard, Sousaphone, banjo, guitar.
Trumpet
Air blown through brass tubes
Marimba
Hitting wood with mallets
Trombone
Air blown through brass tubes
French horn
Air blown through brass tubes
Mandolin
Dual metal strings strung over a thin wooden body.
Oboe
Air blown through brass tubes
Violin
Horse hair dragged over metal strings, amplified by a wooden body
Uilleann Pipes
A wooden tube attached to a leather bag and bellows.
Drum kit
Skins pulled tight over wooden cylinders
Banjo
Metal strings plucked with a skin pulled around a cylinder to amplify