Transcription: For sheer magnificence of sound, no listening experience rivals hearing a live symphony orchestra. Sometimes numbering 100 musicians, the symphony orchestra seems an almost casual sprawl of various instruments. However, these instruments divide into four very distinct sounding families. The strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. String instruments produce sound by drawing a bow of horsehair across strings suspended over an exquisitely crafted wooden body. In the orchestra, the strings far outnumber the other instruments and play them most often. They include two different sections of violi ...