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A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification
Musical instrument classification

At various times, and in various different cultures, various schemes of musical instrument classification have been used.The most commonly used system in use in the west today divides instruments into string instruments, wind instruments and percussion instruments....
, such as the Hornbostel-Sachs
Hornbostel-Sachs

Hornbostel-Sachs is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the Zeitschrift f?r Ethnologie in 1914....
 system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families.

Some commonly recognized families are:



Family relationships are not always clear-cut. For example, some authorities regard families as encompassing only instruments of different pitch range that have similar construction and tone quality.






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A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification
Musical instrument classification

At various times, and in various different cultures, various schemes of musical instrument classification have been used.The most commonly used system in use in the west today divides instruments into string instruments, wind instruments and percussion instruments....
, such as the Hornbostel-Sachs
Hornbostel-Sachs

Hornbostel-Sachs is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the Zeitschrift f?r Ethnologie in 1914....
 system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families.

Some commonly recognized families are:

  • Bassoon
    Bassoon

    The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the Bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher....
     family
  • Chalumeau
    Chalumeau

    This article is about the historical musical instrument. For the register on the clarinet that is named for this instrument, see Clarinet#Range.The 'chalumeau' is a woodwind instrument of the late baroque music and early classical period era, in appearance rather like a recorder, but with a mouthpiece like a clarinet's....
     family
  • Clarinet
    Clarinet

    The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet....
     giug*Crumhorn
    Crumhorn

    The crumhorn is a musical instrument of the woodwind family, most commonly used during the Renaissance music period. In modern times, there has been a revival of interest in Early Music, and crumhorns are being played again....
     family
  • Flute
    Flute

    The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike other woodwind instruments, a flute is a reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air against an edge....
     family
  • Oboe
    Oboe

    The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois", "hoboy", or "French hoboy"....
     family
  • Recorder
    Recorder

    The recorder is a woodwind instrument musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes — whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle and ocarina....
     family
  • Saxhorn
    Saxhorn

    The saxhorn is a valved brass instrument with a tapered bore and deep cup-shaped mouthpiece . The sound has a characteristic mellow quality, and blends well with other brass....
     family
  • Saxophone
    Saxophone

    The saxophone is a conical-Bore transposing instrument musical instrument considered a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and are played with a Single-reed instrument mouthpiece similar to the clarinet....
     family
  • Shawm
    Shawm

    The shawm was a medieval and Renaissance musical instrument of the woodwind family made in Europe from the late 13th century until the 17th century....
     family
  • Trombone
    Trombone

    The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass instrument family. Like all brass instruments, it is a lip-reed aerophone: sound is produced when the player?s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate....
     family
  • Viol
    Viol

    The viol is any one of a family of bow , fretted, stringed instruments musical instruments developed in the 1400s and used primarily in the Renaissance music and Baroque music periods....
     family
  • Violin family
    Violin family

    The Violin family of musical instruments was developed in Italy in the sixteenth century. The modern violin family consists of the violin, viola and cello, along with the double bass....


Family relationships are not always clear-cut. For example, some authorities regard families as encompassing only instruments of different pitch range that have similar construction and tone quality. They therefore, for example, do not regard the cor anglais
Cor anglais

The cor anglais, or English horn, is a Double reed woodwind Musical instrument in the oboe family.The cor anglais is a transposing instrument pitched in F, a perfect fifth lower than the oboe , and is consequently approximately one-third longer....
 as a member of the oboe family, because its narrow bore and piriform bell give it a distinctly different tone quality from the oboe.