In organology, the study of musical instruments, many methods of classifying instruments exist. Most methods are specific to a particular cultural group...
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A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it...
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This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Celesta Crystallophone Glass Harmonica Glass...
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musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification,...
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produced. The most widely used classification system for musical instruments, Hornbostel–Sachs, takes this approach. Musical usage, in particular the traditional...
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In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer...
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Chinese musical instruments are traditionally grouped into eight categories (classified by the material from which the instruments were made) known as...
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electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry. Such an instrument sounds by outputting...
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organon 'instrument' and λόγος logos 'the study of') is the science of musical instruments and their classifications. It embraces study of instruments' history...
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A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument. Capable of continuous glissando (portamento), the sound creates an...
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Membranophone (category Musical instruments by material)
of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification. According to Sachs, The sound is produced by a membrane ["skin"...
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triangle, or musical triangle, is a musical instrument in the percussion family, classified as an idiophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system....
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Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification (see List of idiophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number). The early classification of Victor-Charles Mahillon...
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List of idiophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number (redirect from List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number: 1)
system of musical instrument classification defines idiophones as all instruments in which sound is produced primarily by way of the instrument itself vibrating...
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Whirly tube (redirect from Tube (musical instrument))
resonator, also sold as Free-Ka in the 1960s-1970s, is an experimental musical instrument which consists of a corrugated (ribbed) plastic tube or hose (hollow...
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Quintet. Problems playing these files? See media help. A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which...
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""A Koto" by Any Other name: Exploring Japanese Systems of Musical Instrument Classification". Asian Music. 49: 38–64. Deal, William E. (2006). Handbook...
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Hornbostel–Sachs (category Classification systems)
Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, first published...
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The Hornbostel–Sachs system categorizes musical instruments by how they make sound. It divides instruments into five groups: idiophones, membranophones...
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Kurdish musical instruments (Kurdish: ئامێرە میوزیکییە کوردییەکان, romanized: Amêre mîwzîkiye Kurdiyekan) are traditional instruments used in the music...
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Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe...
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original on 8 September 2014. Revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments by the MIMO Consortium "Temple blocks". Virginia Tech Multimedia...
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/rʊˈbɑːb/) or robab is a lute-like musical instrument of Central Asian origin. It is the national musical instrument of Afghanistan and is also commonly...
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List of music genres and styles (redirect from Musical genres)
new audiences, however classification is useful to find music and distribute it. Lists portal Music portal Genealogy of musical genres This list is split...
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Music of Ethiopia (redirect from Ethiopian musical instruments)
Instruments (on Mekatecha - Tigrina Language News and Culture website) "Playing the maqwamiya, senasel and kebero explained" – via youtube. "Musical Instruments"...
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Nail violin (category Bowed instruments)
The nail violin is a musical instrument that consists of a semicircular wooden soundboard, with nails of various lengths arranged to produce a chromatic...
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Fictional music (redirect from Fictional musical instrument)
altered Chapman stick. In the Futurama television series, a fictional musical instrument called "the Holophonor" was introduced. It resembles an oboe and produces...
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Glossary of music terminology (redirect from Musical terms)
popular music Glossary of Schenkerian analysis List of musical symbols List of musical instruments Collins Music Encyclopedia, 1959. Apel, Willi (ed.) (1969)...
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The pochette is a small stringed instrument of the bowed variety. It is a small violin-like instrument designed to fit in a pocket, hence the name "pochette"...
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The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as internal duct flutes: flutes with a whistle mouthpiece, also known as fipple...
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