How can the orchestra make so many different sounds? It's quiet and gentle, loud and piercing, funny, powerful, beautiful, frightening - and many other things besides. Composers for hundreds of years have used the same instruments in a whole variety of ways.
Which instrument belongs to which section of the orchestra? Does a violin really have a belly? What exactly is a 'ondes martenot'? And what do these inst ruments do when they venture outside the orchestra?
With your guiding star, Evelyn Glennie you too can become an expert. You'll even know your heckelphone from your sackbut and your tom-tom from your tam-tam - all by spending hours of fun with words, pictures and music, in the book and on the interactive CD-ROM.
Sound: Listen to the instruments plus: History of the Instruments, Star Players, Instrumental Families.
