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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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