Nothing here is a recording. Every sound on this page is built in your browser from a recipe — which is why 109 of them weigh less than one MP3. Tap any of them.
Hearing comes before reading. A child who cannot tell ship from sheep will not spell either of them, and no amount of phonics worksheets fixes that — only listening does.
Each one carries twenty recipes — a pluck is not a strum and neither is a drone. Open an instrument to see what it can be asked to do.
The recipes above are a catalogue, not a player — they describe what each instrument can be asked for. The components bench plays them.
Tap to play, tap again to stop. Several can run at once — rain under birdsong, a bowl over both.