Atlanta Music TV

When visitors enter a concert hall to hear a symphonic orchestra, they will see a orchestrated seating arrangement stretched out across the stage before them. Many might wonder about the musical instruments that will be used during the performance because there are no signs posted to identify the types of musical instruments and the specific placement of them. Some instruments will be on the stage, such as the piano, and kettle drums and others will be brought to the stage by the musician that is trained to play it. The number of musical instruments that will make up a symphonic orchestra will total more than 100. The types of musical instrument are numerous and each instrument style will be placed in a specific category. A complete orchestra will contain stringed instruments, woodwinds, instruments made of brass, percussion i guitar strap nstruments, and toward the front of the orchestra, a harp can be seen sitting in a stand waiting to be raised and played by a talented musician. Some musical instrument types will fit into odd musical instrument categories. The musical instruments that will always be placed in the strings category are the violin, violas, cellos, and double basses. The violin and violas are held in the hand when played and the cellos and double basses must be played in a standing position and will be equipped with pins that extend from the bottom and give the musician traction with the flooring during the symphonic performance. The cellos and double basses will be the musical instruments that the audience can view before the performance starts because these musical instruments are bulky and take time to set up before the performance starts.