Why does an orchestra have many people playing the same instruments? How does it add to the overall performance?
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I’ll explain in an analogy, imagine each instrument as a separate ingredient for a cake. Some are sugar, eggs, flour, vanilla extract, and some are water. The baking is the performance. You need a different combination of ingredients to bake and you need a different combination of instruments for a performance of different kinds of music. Each ingredient on its own is great but the combination of ingredients is what makes a cake so good.
You also need way more grains of sugar than eggs. With instruments, you need way more string instruments compared to wind instruments for the orchestra.
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