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Unique Instruments
A musical instrument is an object designed to produce musical melodies.
Read the descriptions and write the names of the unique instruments using the Help Box.
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______________ is one of ______________ is a bowed ______________ is a barrel
the first jazz instruments. string instrument played with shaped, two-headed drum,
It is originally an African a horsehair bow. which is also known as
instrument which travelled mridangam.
to the United States during
slave trade.
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______________ is one of the ______________ is a mono, ______________ is an
oldest instruments known to woodwind instrument that instrument that is quite
man. It produces sound by was first designed in the mid similar to sarod and the name
vibrating a column of air. 1800s. It has a mouthpiece, a means pleasure in Sanskrit.
conical metal tube, and finger
keys.
Help Box Fact File
Saxophone, Banjo, Violin, Sursingar, In ancient times, primitive humans made loud music using
Pakhavaj, Flute animal horns, making them the earliest wind instruments!
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