Harmony and sound
Instruments of the orchestra
A symphony orchestra has four families: strings, woodwind, brass and percussion. How an instrument makes its sound decides which family it belongs to.
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Why
Why does a metal saxophone belong to the woodwind family?
An orchestra sometimes has more than eighty musicians. They do not just sit anywhere: they sit in families, with the instruments that make sound the same way grouped together.
A family does not depend on the material but on how the sound is made. That is why the saxophone, with its reed, sits with the woodwind.
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