The Four Families of an Orchestra

Symphonies began to be composed during the alleged Classical period in European music history, about 1740–1820. A symphony is a prolonged form of musical alignment that is then played by an orchestra. The orchestra normally consists of several large sections, or movements that contain four separate instrumental pieces. The four instrument families that make up these movements are known as; Woodwinds, brass, percussion and strings. Each family then has other individual instruments that collaborate in a precise way to make the piece they are playing speak to their audience although the piece does not necessarily have words.
The Woodwinds family consists of instruments that are made out of wood and sometimes metal. The wind is not actual natural wind more less the air flow we control through proper lip movement and breathing into the instrument itself. There are two types of woodwind instruments which are flutes and reeds. The slight differences between the two are flutes are directly blown into a side hole created at the tip of the instrument. As for reeds have a mouthpiece that is plugged into the instrument to play it. The instruments that are considered woodwinds are the piccolo, the oboe, the clarinet and the bassoon.
The Brass family instruments were traditionally made out of brass but today we see that some of the brass instruments are classified as “brass” and made up of different materials. Simply because not all instruments that are made of brass are in fact part of the Brass family. All brass instruments have three things in common which are; a mouthpiece, tubing and a bell. Unlike the woodwinds technique to produce sound by covering the holes along the instrument brass instruments have valves that you can press and slides that you slide back and forth as you play to make different pitches. They have these components specifically for successful production of sustained tones. The independent instruments played in an orchestra from the brass family