How do you like the New Year’s Concert and the Goldener Saal in the Musikverein where the concert took place? Or is the orchestra playing in the open air? In that case you are watching the Summer Night Concert in front of the Schönbrunn palace.
More than 50 instruments are playing at the same time! Do you know what they are all called?
Woodwind instruments
Flute
Piccolo flute
Clarinet
Oboe
Bassoon
Brass instruments
Horn
Trumpet
Trombone
Tuba
Percussion instruments
Timpani
Drums
Cymbals
Triangle
Xylophone
Stringed instruments
Violin
Viola
Cello
Double bass
Harp
Other instruments can also be involved but these are not found as often in a professional orchestra. These include, for example, the piano.
Did you see the large pipes in the background in the Musikverein’s Goldener Saal? These are not part of any orchestra instrument. Maybe you have already seen something like this in a church? Do you know what it is called?
That’s right: It’s an organ.