In organology, the study of musical instruments, many methods of classifying instruments exist. Most methods are specific to a particular cultural group...

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...

produced. The most widely used classification system for musical instruments, Hornbostel–Sachs, takes this approach. Musical usage, in particular the traditional...

This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Celesta Crystallophone Glass Harmonica Glass...

In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer...

musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification,...

Chinese musical instruments are traditionally grouped into eight categories (classified by the material from which the instruments were made) known as...

electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry. Such an instrument sounds by outputting...

organon 'instrument' and λόγος logos 'the study of') is the science of musical instruments and their classifications. It embraces study of instruments' history...

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...

of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification. According to Sachs, The sound is produced by a membrane ["skin"...

Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification (see List of idiophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number). The early classification of Victor-Charles Mahillon...

triangle, or musical triangle, is a musical instrument in the percussion family, classified as an idiophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system....

system of musical instrument classification defines idiophones as all instruments in which sound is produced primarily by way of the instrument itself vibrating...

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...

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...

Kurdish musical instruments (Kurdish: ئامێرە میوزیکییە کوردییەکان, romanized: Amêre mîwzîkiye Kurdiyekan) are traditional instruments used in the music...

""A Koto" by Any Other name: Exploring Japanese Systems of Musical Instrument Classification". Asian Music. 49: 38–64. Deal, William E. (2006). Handbook...

Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, first published...

new audiences, however classification is useful to find music and distribute it. Lists portal Music portal Genealogy of musical genres This list is split...

/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...

original on 8 September 2014. Revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments by the MIMO Consortium "Temple blocks". Virginia Tech Multimedia...

Instruments (on Mekatecha - Tigrina Language News and Culture website) "Playing the maqwamiya, senasel and kebero explained" – via youtube. "Musical Instruments"...

Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe...

popular music Glossary of Schenkerian analysis List of musical symbols List of musical instruments Collins Music Encyclopedia, 1959. Apel, Willi (ed.) (1969)...

stringed instrument, but it is seldom clear which instrument is meant. In the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification, both lyres...

altered Chapman stick. In the Futurama television series, a fictional musical instrument called "the Holophonor" was introduced. It resembles an oboe and produces...

The nail violin is a musical instrument that consists of a semicircular wooden soundboard, with nails of various lengths arranged to produce a chromatic...

The Hornbostel–Sachs system categorizes musical instruments by how they make sound. It divides instruments into five groups: idiophones, membranophones...

Angular harp is a category of musical instruments in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification. It describes a harp in which "the...