Christchurch Symphony Orchestra At YMS!

Kia Ora!
My name is Maddiosn and welcome back to my blog
. Today at Yaldhurst we had a special visitor coming to yaldhurst. It was the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

They had way less people than the original Orchestra usually there can be around 60- 100 people depending on the song. We learnt about the different families of instruments. There is a family of strings with things like Violin or the Cello. Then there is the Woodwind family with Flutes and Clarinets ( squidward in spongebob plays this instrument ) and finally there is Bass with Tubas and Trumpets. They are names these things based of the how the sound is made.


 My favorite instrument shown was the Harp.
What I learnt about the harp. You have to pluck the strings to make noise and vibration. There is pedals so using the pedals you can make evernote ( there is 12 all together ) sound different so every note can be used in three different ways. Finally the strings are all different colours so you can tell what one is a c note or an f note.
 I learnt that the bigger the instrument is the lower the sound can make and the smaller the instrument is the higher the pitch and the noise is.
Did you know that most musicians have to learn to play piano before other instruments for training. 


Here are some of the videos of the music we have heard if your a Harry Potter or Star Wars fan you might enjoy these.

 My Reflection! I really enjoyed this even though I don't usually listen to this type of music before. I enjoyed this because it opened my world into a whole different element of music and how the instruments worked to make sounds. The instruments really depend on the vibration. My favorite part was learning about the harp or hearing the Harry Potter song that they played, It was awesome seeing the different notes the instruments could play and how different note could make you feel.



 Thank you all so much for coming onto my blog! I hope you all come back again and have enjoyed this. What's your favorite song? What area of music do you enjoy? do you play any different musical instruments? If yes how long have you been playing for?