Top 10 Orchestral Instruments

What are your favourite instruments of the orchestra?
The Top Ten
1 Cello The cello or violoncello is a bowed or plucked string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths.
2 Violin 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.

It's not possible to have an orchestra without violins,

No violins, no orchestra.

3 Harp

This is my instrument. I think it sounds beautiful and graceful, with lovely soft melodic notes. In mythology it is often played by the forces of good like angels, gods and goddesses.

4 Flute The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening.
5 French Horn
6 Viola
7 Double Bass
8 English Horn
9 Clarinet
10 Piano The piano is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands.
The Contenders
11 Tuba
12 Accordion Accordions are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.
13 Organ
14 Bassoon
15 Trombone
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