Since the visit of the Istana Budaya's Orchestra Simfoni Remaja, I have felt a revival of sorts in music. I reverted back to an old habit of listening to good soothing and inspiring music from my laptop while working which helps to brings down the stress level.
As promised, we will continue your virtual informal education in music on the blog here after your real life encounter with the instruments and the wonderful handsome and beautiful musicians of Istana Budaya. We can't bring back the orchestra to be with you everyday in real life much as we would love to but you can still hear the sounds and remember the instruments for a long time if you reinforce the real learning with the virtual. 
Let's do some quick revision. Question 1 .Name these two instruments below. Hint: The first one was something you did not manage to answer correctly when Madam Mayya asked you all at both sessions so it is imperative you must now learn and get to know the name of this instrument.
The colorful diagram above shows how the musicians were arranged by instruments they play. Can you name the instruments from 1 to 14?
The orchestra OSR was also sitting in this arrangement in our school hall except for instrument No 14. If you can name the instruments anytime off hand when I next ask this at assembly, I think you have learned a lot and if I should have an extra gift on hand, I think I should give it to the students who know the answer.
Last question for today - who can name the 4 families of instruments?
I also discovered many good websites which give you the music played by each instrument.
I find the two websites below to be very helpful and interactive. You could trying surfing them.
I find the two websites below to be very helpful and interactive. You could trying surfing them.
•http://datadragon.com/education/instruments/winds.shtml
Happy learning! .
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