Have you ever heard the magical sound of a drone flute? This instrument has a mysterious, out of this world kind of emotion. What is a Drone Flute? A drone flut [...]

There are two types of flutes in the world: open hole flutes, and flutes with keys/pads.  Of course, the keyed flutes give you more agility to be able to p [...]

Both the Irish flute and the Bansuri are what is called "simple system flutes". In most cases they both have 6 open holes without any keys as well. So what are [...]

There are two types of percussion instruments in music, pitched percussion & unpitched percussion. I like to refer to them as simply "percussion" and "melod [...]

What instruments are part of the percussion section of an orchestra? The drums and percussion family is by far the biggest and most changeable section of the or [...]

What instruments are in the strings section of the orchestra? The bowed strings instruments are actually the most standardised and cohesive instrument section o [...]

What makes music sound dreamy? What makes it have that strange, mysterious atmosphere that evokes your imagination or even go into the surreal?  Music that [...]

There are some music instruments that are notoriously difficult to learn how to play well. These are instruments that are tricky to even get a good sounding not [...]

Do you have a young child that have started to develop an interest in music? That's great, because learning and playing any music instrument is not an amazing s [...]

What instruments are in the woodwind section of the orchestra? Well, there in fact 4 sub families of woodwind instruments, that together create the “Woodwinds S [...]