In understanding what musical sounds is, first lets consider sound itself. What is sound? the answer is simple and is taken from different angles.
Sounds are vibrations emitted from a medium when it is being hit, plucked, ringed, tapped, or stroked. Having said that, we now consider musical sounds.
What is musical sounds?
Musical sounds are vibrations emitted from musical instruments when they are being hit, plucked, ringed, tapped, or stroked.
Difference between musical sounds and other sounds(noise)
A sound is a noise when that has an irregular beat. They are irregular vibrations that comes from any kind of medium, while musical sounds are regular beats or vibrations emitted out from mediums such as musical instruments.
In layman’s’ understanding, noise are irregular sounds while musical sounds are regular sounds. That is why when a musical instrument plays our hearts grows fonder because it reaches our ear uniformly.
Musical instruments are use to produce musical sounds, and we have three main types of musical instrument. They are:
String Instruments: The Guitars, the Banjos, the Violins, and the Harps.
Percussion Instruments: The Drums, the Tambourines, the Cymbals, the Bells, the Gongs, and the Pianos.
Wind Instruments: The Trumpets, the trumpets, and others.
The string instruments are played by plucking the strings, and the percussion instruments by hitting, ringing or striking, while the winds instruments by blowing air into the air columns.