What are the general classes into which musical instruments are grouped?
Name the percussion instruments.
Name the principles of classification for wind instruments.
Give examples of each class.
What is a reed? How many kinds are in use?
What methods of producing sound are used in playing stringed
instruments?
Give examples of each class.
Give a description of the lute.
Name the steps in the evolution of the violin.
The catalogues of the instruments contained in the Metropolitan Museum
(Crosby-Brown Collection), New York City, will be found very useful for
reference. This collection is one of the most complete in the world,
and is arranged so as to show the development of instruments of the
various types. They can be secured at slight expense by addressing the
Museum.