Happy National Buy a Music Instrument Day – 2025

May 23, 2025November 30, 2025

Happy Buy a Music Instrument Day!

Today was National Buy a Music Instrument Day, a month to honor buying that just right instrument to suit the player’s interests. Everyone has a favorite. . .

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A Brief History:
The Music Instrument: A vast array of musical instruments is crafted from different materials and produces sound through various methods. Consequently, these instruments are typically categorized into instrument families within the orchestra, according to the original Hornbostel-Sachs classification system categorizes musical instruments into five primary divisions:

Idiophones
Membranophones
Chordophones
Aerophones
Electrophones

The Hornbostel–Sachs classification system organizes musical instruments based on their sound production methods. Additionally, there are several instruments that fall outside of the five primary categories. Still the orchestral families lie primarily into these following categories:

Strings
Woodwinds
Brass
Percussion

Bonesiii's Lego Musical Instruments (in LDD).jpg

Bonesiii’s Lego Musical Instruments (in LDD) courtesy of Openverse

Different Categories of Music Instrument: A mix of different instruments, to suit the player’s wants and needs. Some instruments can be double-categorized, likely to be included in one or more of these different categories, depending on the deposition for melodic classification. In other words, for example, a bass guitar is both in the “Bass” category and also in the “Strings” category. But when classifying the reasoning, looking at strings, we need to cover all the tiers of octaves. On the other hand when looking at “Bass” we don’t want several different instruments not being able to be heard or in the way of each other. Therefore the instruments must be double and sometimes even triple categorized. Selecting the right aura of instruments is an art. Here is a general list:

Categories of Musical Instruments
Aerophones An aerophone is a type of musical instrument that generates sound mainly by vibrating a body of air, without relying on strings or membranes, and without the instrument’s own vibrations significantly contributing to the sound.	Bass Bass instruments include the bass recorder, bass oboe, bass tuba, bass saxophone, bass sarrusophone, bass trombone, bass guitar, and bass drum. Additionally, there are instruments that are lower than bass.	Brass Instruments A brass instrument is a type of musical instrument that generates sound through the sympathetic vibration of air within a tubular resonator, which resonates in harmony with the vibrations of the player’s lips. Brass instruments encompass French horns, trombones, and trumpets, which come in various shapes to facilitate ease of play.
Chordophones Chordophones refer to all instruments that generate sound primarily through the vibration of one or more strings that are tensioned between fixed points. This category encompasses all instruments commonly referred to as string instruments, in addition to various keyboard instruments, including pianos and harpsichords.	Electrophones Electrophones refer to a category of musical instruments, such as synthesizers or electric organs, that produce sound through electronic means.	Idiophones An idiophone refers to a category of musical instruments that generate sound mainly through the vibration of the instrument itself, without relying on air flow, strings, membranes, or electricity.
Keyboard Instruments A keyboard instrument refers to a musical device that is operated through a keyboard, which consists of a series of levers activated by the fingers. The most prevalent examples of such instruments include the piano, organ, and a range of electronic keyboards, such as synthesizers and digital pianos.	Membranophones A membranophone refers to any musical instrument that generates sound mainly through the vibration of a stretched membrane.	Percussion A percussion instrument refers to a type of musical instrument that produces sound when it is struck or scraped with a beater. This includes instruments with attached or enclosed beaters, as well as rattles that are struck, scraped, or rubbed by hand, or that are struck against another similar instrument.
String Instruments String instruments, sometimes known as chordophones, are musical devices that generate sound through the vibration of strings when a musician strums, plucks, strikes, or otherwise engages the strings in different ways.	Woodwind Instruments Woodwind instruments can produce a diverse range of tones, spanning from the vibrant saxophone to the delicate, classical clarinet. The bassoon is classified as a woodwind instrument. Also, depte not being made of wood, a recorder is also considered a woodwind instrument.	Automatic Instruments Automated instruments are any instrument that is not played by a person, like a drum machine, an machine organ, or automated guitar playing, and just about any other sound that is filled in to replace the presence of a player.
This is a list of popular choice. This by no means is every music instrument category. This is meant for suggestions. AIf you do not see a music instrument category that you are interested in, and it is not on this list, feel free to do an online search.

Musical Instrument display in The Victoria and Albert Museum-London, England.jpg

Musical Instrument display in The Victoria and Albert Museum-London, England courtesy of Openverse

A Few Facts:
I am sharing some important, and not so trivial info on music instruments. . .

Top 5 Pick of Instrument:

Popular String Instrument: Guitar
Popular Bass Instrument: Bass guitar
Popular Percussion Mix: Drum set with cymbals
Popular Keyboard Instrument: Organ/keyboard
Popular Chordophone Instrument: Piano

With having the above instruments, you will have a vast array and diverse coverage to be able to play a melodic work of art. The most important rules are:

Having at least two octaves of on-key musicians playing harmonious notes, including an octave near or at bass area of sound. You will notice that it is very rare to ever have musicians ever play without a bass guitarist. The bass guitarist, while underrated, is a very, very important part of the music.
Having a metronome, usually the drummer. The drummer is considered the heart and soul of any band. The drummer’s job is to keep the whole band’s song on time.
A featured sound:
- Singers
- Brass
- Woodwinds
- Guitars
- Keyboards
- Pianos

EMP Musical Instruments Sculpture courtesy of Openverse

The Present:
People still love to buy a new music instrument. . .the sound, the playing and the players! Grab an instrument, and enjoy!

The Future:
The future definitely needs young recruits to take the stages being musicians all across the world, and into the future. . .

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