💡 Musical Instruments — Fun Facts

People have made music with flutes for many thousands of years.

The oldest flutes were carved from bone long, long ago. Music is one of the oldest things people love.

A pipe organ can be as tall as a building with huge pipes.

It is one of the biggest instruments in the world. Air rushes through the pipes to make giant sounds.

The đàn bầu of Vietnam makes music with only one string.

Players bend a soft, singing sound from a single string. It is a special Vietnamese instrument.

You blow air into a flute to make it sing.

Covering different holes changes the note. The wind moving inside makes a soft, whistly sound.

A guitar makes music when you pluck its stretched strings.

The strings buzz back and forth when you pluck them. Thick strings sound low and thin ones sound high.

A piano has both white keys and black keys to press.

When you press a key, a tiny hammer taps a string inside. Each key sings a different note.

A drum makes sound when you tap its stretched skin and it wiggles.

The top of a drum shakes very fast when you hit it. That shaking makes the boom you hear.