ABSTRACT
Aerophones are blown, usually using the mouth, to push air into the instrument. As such they resemble voice production and can have a vocal quality. In the classroom context the risk of spreading germs through their shared use needs to be considered. Cloths and sprays are required to wipe and disinfect the instrument when one person has finished playing. Aerophones can be introduced as distinctive instruments, including flutes, panpipes, and a range of recorders, clarinets, saxophones, double reed instruments, bagpipes, trumpets, horns, trombones, tubas, concertinas, piano accordions, organs and harmoniums. Chordophones create sound through the vibration of strings. Electro-mechanophones produce sound mechanically or through an electronic source. The electric keyboard and the electric guitar are the most common. These instruments were used only rarely during LINK project. However, a small electronic keyboard was introduced for one young person who experimented with the variety of tonal qualities and broadened the scope of instruments being used in the classroom.
