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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Class8
Lesson Notes
Subject-Physics
CH-Sound
Subtopic-Production of sound
There are three categories of musical instruments as follows:
Percussion Instrument.
Stringed Instrument.
Wind Instrument.
Stringed instrument is a musical instrument (as a violin, guitar,) sounded by
plucking or striking or by drawing a bow across its tight stretched strings.
Percussion instruments make sound by a stretched membrane being hit.
A wind instrument is a musical instrument in which a column of air is set into
vibration
Sound produced by humans
In humans, the sound is produced by the voice box or the larynx.