- I can't play the violin.
- The piano is my favourite instrument.
But: - I’d like to have a piano.
- There was a keyboard in the corner of the room.
- He bought a guitar and started to learn how to play.
The prefix ‘contra’The prefix ‘contra’ in music language is used to form the names of
instruments having a pitch of an octave below that of the instrument
named:
contrabassoon: double bassoon; an octave lower in pitch than the
usual bassoon
contrabass: double bass
Did you know? The world’s best-selling musical instrument is surprisingly the
harmonica. In 2009 researchers in Germany published details of flutes found in
southwest Germany thought to be 35,000 years old.“Music is the art of thinking with sounds.”- Jules Combarieu