Folk music includes wind instruments, stringed instruments, plucked instruments and percussion instruments.

1. Wind instruments

Wind instruments are mostly woodwind instruments. Most of them can play smooth melodies, and the general sounds are louder and brighter, which plays an important role in many ensemble forms. Various wind instruments, according to their different structures, can be roughly divided into wind instruments without reed whistle, such as flute and flute. Wind instruments with whistles such as pipes and suona; Reed instruments such as sheng.

2. stringed instruments

most stringed instruments are good at playing singing melodies, and their timbre is generally soft and beautiful, and they have strong adaptability. The commonly used stringed instruments are Jinghu and Erhu.

3. plucked instruments

plucked instruments are mostly good at playing lively and jumping melodies, and have strong rhythm expression. All kinds of plucked instruments can be roughly divided into stringed instruments, such as pipa, Ruan, yueqin, Sanxian and Dongbula, according to their playing postures and forms. Playing stringed instruments such as guqin and Zheng in a flat position; Play stringed instruments such as dulcimer.

4. percussion instruments

There are many kinds of percussion instruments in national musical instruments, which have different colors because of their different shapes and materials. Percussion instruments are mainly rhythmic instruments. Percussion instruments include drums, gongs, cymbals, wooden fish, banjo and tambourine.

related introduction of national musical instruments

national musical instruments refer to the unique musical instruments of ethnic groups all over the world. It is divided into China national musical instruments and other national musical instruments in the world. For example: Guqin is the national musical instrument of China; Sanweixian is a national musical instrument in Japan. China's national musical instruments are generally popular, such as Qin, Zheng, Xiao, flute, suona, erhu, pipa, bamboo and drum, etc. China's national musical instruments represent Chinese traditional musical culture.

technically speaking, the composition of the local style features of instrumental music works involves the whole basic means of expression and the whole means of expression, which are the indispensable basic elements of the composition of the style features of the first instrumental music works. According to the performance characteristics of Chinese traditional folk instrumental music, generally speaking, the important components of local style are playing skills, melody unfolding techniques used in folk traditions and band combination.

refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-National Musical Instruments for the above contents.