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-The sounds of an aerophone comes from the vibrations created by the action of air passing through a tube of some kind.
-Some aerophones include:
-The Western Flute
-clarinet
-bassoon
-oboe
-A pipe organ would be a great example of a aerophone because the air is passing  through the pipes.
-The human voice is also a aerophone but some people would say not.
-People tend to think about their voices as either representing a separate category of a musical instrument or as not belonging to the category of music instruments at all.

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1)   Electronophones can be divided into two categories: Pure and Hybrid

-Pure - electronics that both generate the sound and amplify and enhance it (ex. synthesizers)

-Hybrid - modified versions of conventional acoustic instruments (ex. electric guitars)

*Essentially, if you have to plug it in to get sound, it's pure, but if you can get some sound without plugging it in, it's hybrid. (ex. If one plays a keyboard without plugging it in, there will be no sound, only the clicking of the keys. If one plays an electric guitar, you can still make out the sound without it being plugged in.

2)   In order to make these instruments work, there are tons of systems and such which are all intertwined, but at the base of this, there are two main categories into which all of those systems may fall.

-Sound Generators - production of sound (ex. synthesizers and digital samplers)
-Sound Modifiers - alter and enhance the sound

I.   Sound Generators

i. Digital Sampling - Technology that allows for existing sound to be recorded, stored as digital data, and then reproduced either "verbatim" or in electronically manipulated form.

*Electro-acoustic music has risen from digital sampling, combining both purely acoustic and purely electronic sonorities in new ways.

ii.  Digital Synthesis - Technology that creates electronic sounds from scratch

*Computers or other devices (like a synthesizer) are used to create an electronic soundwave then to process that soundwave until a desired timbre is achieved.

II.   Sound Modifiers

-Amplifiers and effects devices can transform tones through the addition of reverberation, echo, vibrato, and distortion.

*Effects are to electronic music as acoustical spaces are to music that is not electronically processed. The goal is to obtain the same result of the acoustical space while electronically generating it.

3)   Recording

The ability to record music has completely revolutionized the making, reception, perception and meaning of music on a global scale.

Multitrack recording - the ability to record multiple tracks and overlap them through the process of overdubbing.

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The idiophones means literally self-sounder. The sound is produced by the vibration on the body of the instrument itself.

The instruments of the idiophone class are all percussion instruments other than drums: gongs, triangles, shakers, cymbals, spoons, castanets, hand-claps, and xylophones. The metallophone instruments are also included.

Idiophones can be played in different ways: striking, rubbing, shaking, plucking (mbira), stamping, and clapping.

The drum set is a "compound" instrument consisting of idiophones and membranophones.

Check out the "mbira dzavadzimu" instrument; originated from Zimbabwe, the Shona people.

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Buy Mbira http://www.artscraftgallery.com or the following link ...

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Check out this song played by the Kazoo! ;-)

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Check out this song played by the Kazoo! ;-)

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Pokémon Gold, Silver & Crystal - Lance / Red Trainer Theme... KAZOO'd!

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My kazoo rendition / arrangement of Lance's Theme (also Red Trainer or Champion theme) from Pokémon Gold, Silver and Crystal on Game Boy / Game Boy Color, and Pokémon Heartgold and Soulsilver on Nintendo DS. Aaaah, the thrill of fighting Red on Mt. Silver! Shame we couldn't save after.

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Membranophone is the third class of instruments in Hornbostel-Sachs system.

[Side Note: What is Hornbostel-Sachs system? - It is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs]

The sound of this instrument is produced by the vibration of a stretched membrane (natural or synthetic).

Drums are the predominant type of instruments.
For example: Snare drum, bass drum, and tom-toms of the Western drum set.

The membranophone can be played with sticks, fingers, the palm of the hands, foot pedals, and even mouths (kazoo).

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A piano can be considered a chordophone as well. When playing the keys on a piano the sound is generated by the motion of one hitting the keys. The sound vibrates from inside the body of the piano.

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The violin is the most used of all the chordophones on a global scale. It has a resonator (the body), a bridge, four strings, and a head with the tuning knobs.
Like most of its family members, the violin has a sound hole in the center of it which the sound comes out of! (Woah) These sound holes are in the shape of an "F"

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So chordophones are instruments in which the sound is activated by the vibration of string instruments!

An example would be a guitar, harp, violin, banjo, mandolin and a hammered dulcimer. (No idea what those are, but heres a picture below!)

Even though all chordophones
There are many ways for chordophones to make the vibration, the vibration sound can vary:
Plucking
bowing
rubbing
striking strings

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Music Instruments and Music Instrument Classification

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Music Instruments and Music Instrument Classification

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A music instrument is any sound-generating medium used to produce tones in the making of music (includes the human voice and computer-generated music).

Musical instruments may also include any other natural or newly invented sounds that music makers use (intention and perception).

Instrumentation: the types of instruments (potentially including voices) and the number of each. Instrumentation has developed over the course of the millennia and in many parts of the world.

Malatia, the 'Are'are people

The best known Western instrument classification system has three main categories:
1. Strings
2. Winds
3. Percussion

Hornbostel-Sachs classification system (published in 1914 by two German musicologists) has four principal instrument categories:
1. chordophones
2. aerophones
3. membranophones
4. idiophones
*5. Electronophones ~ added later

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Pan Pipers from Malaita Island, Solomon Islands (3)

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http://ozoutback.com.au Pan Pipers from Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands play and dance at the Mini Festival of Melanesian Arts in Lifou, New Caledonia. Local people join in the celebration of this happy festival. http://youtube.com/watch?v=HiOvtQaoKyI

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Timbre: The character or quality of a musical tone or tones. (ex. Horn and Flute) "tone color"
Partials: Pitch components of a tone
-Overtone series or harmainics
-Fundamental pitch

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Dynamics: Refers to, in music, how loud or how soft different tones are played.
Dynamics can be showing in many different ways. Such as:
-Very Soft (pp)
-Soft (p)
-Medium (mf)
-Loud (f)
-Very Loud (ff)
Science measures the amplitude of a tone in decibels. (Higher the count the louder the sound.)
We also have dynamic rang- this is where you have loud in a rock band and loud in a recital. This example is also relies more on dynamic contrast.