The popular instruments used in live bands have become a rage for weddings in Singapore are of four categories.
1) Brass Instruments
Brass instruments are sounds made by sympathetic vibrations of air produced by the force of the player’s lips. It is blown into the tubular hollow part of the musical instrument. There are various types of brass instruments which are differentiated on the basis of the properties like:-
a) Valved Brass Instruments which use a set of valves that changes the overall length of the instrument like the Tuba.
b) Slide Brass Instruments require a slide to change the length of the musical instrument, like sackbut, trombone, and the bazooka.
c) Natural Brass Instruments play notes on the instrument like the horn and trumpet.
d) Fingered or Keyed Brass Instrument has holes on the instrument which when covered produces music. Like the keyed trumpet and the keyed bugle.
Other aspects that differentiate the instruments are geometrically (taper and diameter of the bore, cylindrical and conical bore and whole tube and half tube instruments)
2) Woodwind instruments
Woodwind instruments are within the general type of wind instruments. The basic bifurcation is flute and reed instruments.
a) The Flute is a cylindrical tube with holes made at specific points on the body of the instrument. The player blows into this instrument and uses his fingers to cover some holes to create sound. Transverse flute, organ pipe, panpipe, and ocarina are a few known flutes.
b) Reed instruments require air that is blown into the mouthpiece which causes the reeds to vibrate.
They are further segregated by single reed and double reed, saxophone, clarinet, bagpipes, and harmonica. The accordion is a free-reed aerophone instrument.
3) String-Based Instruments
a) Bass produces low-pitched tones either by a bow (a stick with hair to horizontally move on the strings) or by hand.
b) Guitar creates medium-ranged sounds when the strings are struck by a plectrum or fingers which create a sound.
c) Violin produces high-pitch tones by using a bow.
4) Piano
The piano is one of the key instruments in the jazz world. It can be used alone or can be collaborated with any other jazz instrument known. The piano has been the base for the majority of jazz tracks that are known to mankind. The melody and harmony made improve the quality of music. Even if other instruments are the main focus of the soundtrack, yet the piano finds itself at least in the background as a supporting rhythm. Orchestras are incomplete without the presence of a pianist.