This document provides an overview of various musical instruments used in Indian classical music and Western classical music. It discusses instruments such as the sitar, tabla, mridangam, violin, trumpet, guitar, shehnai, drum, and harmonium. The objectives are for students to learn about different types of musical instruments and differentiate between instruments used in Indian and Western music. A brief history of musical instruments is provided, noting they have been used for religious singing since ancient times. Descriptions of specific instruments follow, highlighting their origins, usage, and components.

1. MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS
INDIAN
and
western
CLASSICAL
MUSIC

2. INDEX
 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
1.INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC
2.WESTERN CLASSICAL MUSIC
HISTORY OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
TYPES OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

3. OBJECTIVES
• THE STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO
LEARN DIFFERENT TYPES OF
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
• THE STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO
DIFFRENTIATE THE
INSTRUMENTS OF INDIAN AND
WESTERN MUSIC.

4. HISTORY OF MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS•
There are many types of musical
instruments which people have
used since ancient times. Many
musical instruments were
developed to accompany
religious singing. Depictions of
Mira, a devotee of Lord Krishna
in many antique art works and
other such depictions show the
significance of musical
instruments in worship. The
most well-known Indian musical
instruments then and now are
the sitar and the tabla though
today the Indian musical
instruments market may
include many different
instruments.

5. HARMONIUM
IT IS THE MOST ANCIENT
INSRUMENT IN MUSIC.IT
IS USED FOR CREATING
BACKGROUND MUSIC.A
SINGER CAN NOT SING
WITHOUT TAKING IT’S
HELP.
IT HAS ONE
DHAMAN.WHEN WE
PULL IT COME
CLOSER AND
CREATES SOUNDS BY
PUTTING FINGERS ON
WOODEN SLIDES.IT HAS THREE SAPTAKS……….
1.MANDRA SAPTAK 2.MADHYA SAPTAK 3.TAAR SAPTAK

6. V I O L I
N
• The violin is a bowed
string instrument with four string
tuned in perfect fifths.
The word "violin" comes to us
through the Romance languages
from the Middle Latin word vitula,
meaning "stringed instrument";[1]
this word may also be the source
of the Germanic "fiddle".
• A person who plays the violin is
called a violinist or fiddler, and a
person who makes or repairs them

7. • The mridangam (
Tamil: மிரதஙகம்) is a
percussion instrument
from South India. It
is the primary
rhythmic
accompaniment in a
Carnatic music
ensemble. Alternate
spellings include
mridanga,
mrudangam,
mrdangam,
mrithangam
miruthangam and

8. TABLA
TABLA IS THE MOST
RHYTHMIC INSTRUMENTIN
INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC.IT
HAS TWO PARTS,ONE IS
WOODEN AND ANOTHER ONE
IS STEEL MADE COVERED
WITH NIKIL.
IT IS DIVIDED INTO SIX
PARTS>>>
KUBH,DIVAL,DUGGI,LANGOT
E,PUDI,GATTE.
This is the name for Indian
drums which are usually made
from wood with animal-skin
covers on top.

9. TRUMPETTRUMPET
• The trumpet is a musical instrument in the
brass family. It has the highest register in the
brass section. A musician who plays the
trumpet is called a trumpet player or
trumpeter. The most common trumpet by far
is a transposing instrument pitched in B flat -
the note read as middle C sounds as the B
flat 2 semitones below - but there are many
other trumpets in this family of instruments.

10. GUITARS ARE
RECOGNIZED AS OF THE
PRIMARY INSTRUMENTS
IN ROCK AND POP
MUSIC.THE TONE IS
PRODUCED BY
VIBRATION OF THE
STRINGS AND
MODULATED BY THE
HOLLOW BODY OR THEY
MAY RELY ON AN
AMPLIFIER THAT CAN
ELECTRONICALLY
MANIPULATE TONE.
• Traditionally guitars
have usually been
constructed of
combinations of various
woods and strung with
animal gut, or more
recently, with either
nylon or steel strings.
Guitars are made and
THE GUITAR IS A MUSICAL
INSTRUMENT WITH
ANCIENT ROOTS THAT IS
USED IN VIDE VARIETY OF
MUSICAL STYLES.IT
TYPICALLY HAS SIX
STRINGS,BUT
FOUR,SEVEN,EIGHT,TEN
AND TWELVE STRINGS
GUITARS EXIST.

11. SHEHENAI
This instrument is usually played at auspicious
events and ceremonies
THIS INSTRUMENT HAS AN
APPROXIMATELY
CYLINDRICAL BORE AND
USES A SINGLE REED.

12. D R U M
Drums consist of at least one
MEMBRANE, called a DRUMHEAD
or drum skin, that is stretched over a
shell and struck, either directly with
parts of a player's body, or with some
sort of implement such as
aDRUMSTIC, to produce SOUND
Drums are the world's oldest and most
ubiquitous musical instruments, and
the basic design has remained virtually
unchanged for thousands of years.Most
drums are considered "untuned
instruments", however many modern
musicians are beginning to tune drums
to songs; A few such as TIMPANI are
always tuned to a certain pitch. Often,
several drums are arranged together to
create a DRUMSET that can be played
by a musician.

13. THE SITAR IS A PLUCKED
STRINGED INSTRUMENT.IT USES
SYMPATHETIC STRING ALONG
WITH A LONG HOLLOW NECK AND
A GOURD RESONATING CHAMBER
TO PRODUCE A VERY RICH SOUND
WITH COMPLEX HARMONIC
RESONENCE.PREDOMINATELY
USED IN HINDUSTANI CLASSICAL
MUSIC.THIS IS THE ONLY
INSTRUMENT HAVING MALE AND
FEMALE CATEGORY.