instrumentfamilie
An instrument family is a group of musical instruments that share similar modes of sound production, material construction, or playing technique. In musicology and pedagogy, grouping instruments into families helps describe their timbre, range, and role within ensembles, and supports orchestration and teaching.
In Western classical practice, the principal instrument families are strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and keyboard, with
The Hornbostel-Sachs system classifies instruments by their sound production method: aerophones, chordophones, idiophones, membranophones, and electrophones.
In contemporary music, instrument families help performers understand balance and orchestration; many instruments cross family boundaries,