這些常見樂器，你知道幾樣？

　　violin [?vai??lin] 小提琴

　　The violin is a wooden string instrument in the violin family. It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use.

　　He plays the violin for the fun of it.

　　她拉小提琴只是為了好玩。

　　harp [hɑ?p] 豎琴

　　The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to itssoundboard, which are plucked with the fingers. Harps have been known since antiquity in Asia, Africa and Europe, dating back at least as early as 3500 BC. The instrument had great popularity in Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, where it evolved into a wide range of variants with new technologies, and was disseminated to Europe's colonies, finding particular popularity in Latin America.

　　She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.

　　她用手指劃過豎琴的琴弦。

　　banjo ['bænd???] 班卓琴，五弦琴

　　The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head. The membrane, or head, is typically made of plastic, although animal skin is still occasionally but rarely used, and the frame is typically circular. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in America, adapted from African instruments of similar design.

　　The boy picked the banjo.

　　小男孩彈著班卓琴。

　　piano [p?'æn??] 鋼琴 (pianoforte縮寫)

　　The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. The word piano is a shortened form of pianoforte, the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument, which in turn derives from gravicembalo col piano e forte and fortepiano.

　　He accompanied her on the piano.

　　他用鋼琴為她伴奏。

　　pipe organ [pa?p] ['??gn] 管風(fēng)琴

　　The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called wind) through organ pipes selected via a keyboard.

　　gong [g??] 鑼

　　A gong is an East and South East Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat, circular metal disc which is hit with a mallet. It originated in China and later spread to Southeast Asia, and it can also be used in the percussion section of Western symphony orchestra.

　　He beats the gong twice.

　　他篩了兩下鑼。

　　saxophone ['sæks?f??n] 薩克斯管; 薩克斯風(fēng) (also informal sax)

　　a metal musical instrument that you blow into, used especially in jazz

　　The pianist doubles on saxophone.

　　那鋼琴演奏者兼作薩克斯管吹奏員。

　　flute [flu?t] 長笛

　　a musical instrument of the woodwind group, shaped like a thin pipe. The player

　　holds it sideways and blows across a hole at one end.

　　樂器演奏者怎么說?

　　有些樂器有特定的名稱，在其后接-ist或-er，就表示對應(yīng)的演奏者

　　如violin violinist

　　drum drummer

　　獨(dú)奏solo，而獨(dú)奏演員叫soloist

　　如果沒有特定名稱，那就在樂器名稱后加player

　　viola player中提琴演奏者

　　涉及流行樂或爵士樂，即使有薩克斯管吹奏者(saxophonist)或低音吉他/提琴手(bassist)等特定名稱，依舊習(xí)慣用player

　　a brilliant young sax player

　　才華橫溢的青年薩克斯管吹奏者

　　這些用法要注意：

　　泛指演奏樂器時(shí)，通常會在樂器名稱前加定冠詞the

　　He played the trumpet in a jazz band.

　　他在爵士樂隊(duì)吹小號。

　　涉及兩種或兩種以上樂器時(shí)，則一般不用定冠詞the

　　She teaches violin, cello and piano.

　　她教小提琴，大提琴和鋼琴。

　　指演奏樂器要用介詞on (注意不要用其它介詞)

　　She sang and he accompanied her on the piano. 她演唱，他用鋼琴伴奏。

　　流行或爵士音樂家的演奏通常不用定冠詞the

　　Miles Davis played trumpet 邁爾斯戴維斯吹小號

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