Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. What is a percussion instrument? Well, in the simplest terms it's ...

The Vegetable Orchestra, which only plays instruments that are carved out of vegetables, earned a Guinness World Record for ...

The double bass is a standard member of the orchestra's string ... tango and many types of folk music. History The double bass is generally regarded as a modern descendant of the string family of ...

During the Baroque period between around 1600 and 1750, the composition of the orchestra was not standardized, and often used ...