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Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.
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Aeolodion
The aeolodion or aeolodicon (also called in Germany Windharmonika) is an obsolete keyed wind instrument resembling the harmonium, its tone being produced from steel springs.
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Aerophone
An aerophone is any musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes, and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound.
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Bagpipes
Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.
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Balalaika
The balalaika (балала́йка) is a Russian stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular wooden, hollow body and three strings.
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Baritone horn
The baritone horn, or sometimes just called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family.
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Barrel drum
Barrel drums are a class of membranophone, or drum, characterized by a barrel-shape with a bulge in the middle.
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Bassoon
The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor clefs, and occasionally the treble.
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Bell
A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument.
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Bellows
A bellows or pair of bellows is a device constructed to furnish a strong blast of air.
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Blown idiophone
A blown idiophone is one of the categories of musical instruments found in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification.
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Boomwhacker
Boomwhackers Tuned Percussion Tubes are lightweight, hollow, color-coded, plastic tubes, tuned to musical pitches by length.
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Botija
The botija (botijuela; bunga) is a Caribbean musical instrument of the aerophone type.
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Bowl
A bowl is a round, open-top container used in many cultures to serve hot and cold food.
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Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.
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Bugle
The bugle is one of the simplest brass instruments, having no valves or other pitch-altering devices.
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Bullroarer
The bullroarer, rhombus, or turndun, is an ancient ritual musical instrument and a device historically used for communicating over great distances.
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Castanets
Castanets are a percussion instrument (idiophone), used in Kalo, Moorish, Ottoman, ancient Roman, Italian, Spanish, Sephardic, Swiss, and Portuguese music.
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Celtic harp
The Celtic harp is a triangular harp traditional to Wales, Brittany, Ireland and Scotland.
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Chordophone
A chordophone is a musical instrument that makes sound by way of a vibrating string or strings stretched between two points.
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Clapper (musical instrument)
A clapper is a basic form of percussion instrument.
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Clapstick
Clapsticks or clappers are a type of drumstick, percussion mallet or claves that belongs to the idiophone category.
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Clarinet
The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments.
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Conch
Conch is a common name that is applied to a number of different medium to large-sized shells.
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Conical drum
Conical drums are a class of membranophone, or drum, that is characterized by sloping sides.
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Crest and trough
A crest is the point on a wave with the maximum value of upward displacement within a cycle.
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Cross-strung harp
The cross-strung harp or chromatic double harp is a multi-course harp that has two rows of strings which intersect without touching.
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Curt Sachs
Curt Sachs (June 29, 1881 – February 5, 1959) was a German-born but American-domiciled musicologist.
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Cylindrical drum
Cylindrical drums are a category of drum instruments that include a wide range of implementations, including the bass drum and the Iranian dohol.
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Cymbal
A cymbal is a common percussion instrument.
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Devil chase
The devil chaser is a percussion instrument originating in Southern Asia and commonly found in India and the Philippines.
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Dewey Decimal Classification
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), or Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system first published in the United States by Melvil Dewey in 1876.
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Didgeridoo
The didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu) is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia potentially within the last 1,500 years and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world.
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Double reed
A double reed is a type of reed used to produce sound in various wind instruments.
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Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.
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Drum kit
A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.
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Edge-blown aerophones
Edge-blown aerophones is one of the categories of musical instruments found in the Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification.
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Electrophone
The electrophone category was added to the Hornbostel-Sachs musical instrument classification system by Sachs in 1940, to describe instruments involving electricity.
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Erich von Hornbostel
Erich Moritz von Hornbostel (25 February 1877 – 28 November 1935) was an Austrian ethnomusicologist and scholar of music.
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Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it.
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Euphonium
The euphonium is a large, conical-bore, baritone-voiced brass instrument that derives its name from the Ancient Greek word εὔφωνος euphōnos, meaning "well-sounding" or "sweet-voiced" (εὖ eu means "well" or "good" and φωνή phōnē means "sound", hence "of good sound").
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Flageolet
The flageolet is a woodwind instrument and a member of the fipple flute family.
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Flexatone
The flexatone or fleximetal is a modern percussion instrument (an indirectly struck idiophone) consisting of a small flexible metal sheet suspended in a wire frame ending in a handle.
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Flue pipe
A flue pipe (also referred to as a labial pipe) is an organ pipe that produces sound through the vibration of air molecules, in the same manner as a recorder or a whistle.
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Flute
The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.
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Frame drum
A frame drum is a drum that has a drumhead width greater than its depth.
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Francis William Galpin
Francis William Galpin (1858 1945) was an English cleric and antiquarian musicologist.
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Free reed aerophone
A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound as air flows past a vibrating reed in a frame.
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French horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the "horn" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.
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Friction idiophone
Friction idiophones is designation 13 in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification.
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Galpin Society
The Galpin Society was formed in October 1946 to further research into the history, construction, development and use of musical instruments (the branch of musicology known as organology).
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Gharha
Gharha (ਘੜਾ), also spelled as Ghara, is a musical instrument used in the folk music, folk songs, and folk dances of the Punjab region.
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Ghatam
The Ghatam (घटः ghatah, கடம் ghatam, ಘಟ ghata, ఘటం ghatam, ഘടം, ghatam) is a percussion instrument used in the Carnatic music of South India.
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Glass harmonica
The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica (derived from ἁρμονία, harmonia, the Greek word for harmony), is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction (instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones).
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Glockenspiel
A glockenspiel (or, Glocken: bells and Spiel: set) is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano.
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Goblet drum
The goblet drum (also chalice drum, tarabuka, tarabaki, darbuka, derbake, debuka, doumbek, dumbec, dumbeg, dumbelek, tablah, toumperleki or zerbaghali, دربوكة / ALA-LC: darbūkah) is a single head membranophone with a goblet shaped body used mostly in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and Eastern Europe.
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Gong
A gong (from Malay: gong;; ra; គង - Kong; ฆ้อง Khong; cồng chiêng) is an East and Southeast Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat, circular metal disc which is hit with a mallet.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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Harmonica
The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.
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Harp
The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers.
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Harpsichord
A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard which activates a row of levers that in turn trigger a mechanism that plucks one or more strings with a small plectrum.
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Idiophone
An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings or membranes.
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Inline chromatic harp
An inline chromatic harp is a harp where the strings for all 12 chromatic notes of the octave are placed in one row (the same way strings are placed on a standard concert harp), as opposed to their being placed in two or three (parallel or crossing) courses.
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Jew's harp
The Jew's harp, also known as the jaw harp, mouth harp, Ozark harp or juice harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame.
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Kazoo
The kazoo is a musical instrument that adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player's voice when the player vocalizes into it.
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Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.
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Koto (instrument)
The koto (Japanese: 箏) is a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument derived from the Chinese zheng, and similar to the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum, and the Vietnamese đàn tranh.
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Kouxian
Kouxian is a general Chinese term for any variety of jaw harp.
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Kubing
The kubing is a type of Philippine jaw harp from bamboo found among the Maguindanaon and other Muslim and non-Muslim tribes in the Philippines and Indonesia.
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Lamellophone
A lamellophone (also lamellaphone or linguaphone, from the Latin root lingua meaning "tongue", i.e., a long thin plate that is fixed only at one end) is any of a family of musical instruments.
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List of aerophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number
The Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification groups all instruments in which sound is produced through vibrating air.
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List of chordophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number
The Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification defines chordophones as all instruments in which sound is primarily produced by the vibration of a string or strings that are stretched between fixed points.
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List of idiophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number
The Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification defines idiophones as all instruments in which sound is produced primarily by way of the instrument itself vibrating without the use of membranes or strings.
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List of membranophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number
The Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification groups all instruments in which sound is produced primarily through a vibrating membrane.
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List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number
The following lists contain musical instruments, categorized according to the Hornbostel-Sachs system by how they make sound.
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List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.21
This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.21 under that system.
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List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.22
This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.22 under that system.
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List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.31
This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.31 under that system.
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List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.311
This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.311 under that system.
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List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.312
This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.312 under that system.
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List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.313
This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.313 under that system.
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List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.321
This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.321 under that system.
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List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.322
This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.322 under that system.
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List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number: 322.11
This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 322.11 under that system.
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List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number: 322.12
This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 322.12 under that system.
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Lithophone
A lithophone is a musical instrument consisting of a rock or pieces of rock which are struck to produce musical notes.
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Lur
A lur, also lure or lurr, is a long natural blowing horn without finger holes that is played by embouchure.
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Lute
A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.
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Mandolin
A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".
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Marimba
The marimba is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with mallets called knobs to produce musical tones.
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Mbira
The mbira is an African musical instrument consisting of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with attached staggered metal tines, played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs.
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Membranophone
A membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane.
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Metallophone
A metallophone is any musical instrument consisting of tuned metal bars which are struck to make sound, usually with a mallet.
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Mouthpiece (brass)
On brass instruments the mouthpiece is the part of the instrument placed on the player's lips.
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Music box
A music box or musical box is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or ''lamellae'') of a steel comb.
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Musical bow
The musical bow (bowstring or string bow) is a simple string musical instrument part of a number of South African cultures, also found in other places in the world through the result of slave trade.
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Musical instrument classification
Throughout history, various methods of musical instrument classification have been used.
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Nail violin
The nail violin is a musical instrument which was invented by German violinist Johann Wilde in 1740.
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Natural trumpet
A natural trumpet is a valveless brass instrument that is able to play the notes of the harmonic series.
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Oboe
Oboes are a family of double reed woodwind instruments.
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Ocarina
The ocarina is an ancient wind musical instrument—a type of vessel flute.
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Ophicleide
The ophicleide is a keyed brass instrument similar to the tuba.
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Organology
Organology (from Greek: ὄργανον – organon, "instrument" and λόγος – logos, "study") is the science of musical instruments and their classification.
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Paiban
The paiban is a clapper made from several flat pieces of hardwood or bamboo, which is used in many different forms of Chinese music.
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Pedal harp
The pedal harp (also known as the concert harp) is a large and technically modern harp, designed primarily for art music and may be played either solo, as part of a chamber ensemble, or in an orchestra.
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Pellet drum
Pellet drums, or rattle drums, are a class of membranophone, or drum, characterized by their construction and manner of playing.
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.
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Piano
The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.
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Pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called wind) through organ pipes selected via a keyboard.
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Ratchet (instrument)
A ratchet, also called a noisemaker or Knarre (German) (or, when used in Judaism, a gragger or grogger (etymologically from גראַגער), raganella or ra'ashan (רעשן)), is an orchestral musical instrument played by percussionists.
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Rattle (percussion instrument)
A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when shaken.
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Recorder (musical instrument)
The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument in the group known as internal duct flutes—flutes with a whistle mouthpiece.
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Reed aerophone
Reed aerophones is one of the categories of musical instruments found in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification.
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Reed pipe
A reed pipe (also referred to as a lingual pipe) is an organ pipe that is sounded by a vibrating brass strip known as a reed.
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Royal Conservatory of Brussels
Starting its activities in 1813, the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (French: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, Dutch: Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium) received its official name in 1832.
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Saxophone
The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.
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Shofar
A shofar (pron., from Shofar.ogg) is an ancient musical horn typically made of a ram's horn, used for Jewish religious purposes.
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Single-reed instrument
A single-reed instrument is a woodwind instrument that uses only one reed to produce sound.
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Siren disk
A siren disk is used in pneumatic sirens and has holes which are variously spaced apart.
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Snare drum
A snare drum or side drum is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin.
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Spoon (musical instrument)
Spoons can be played as a makeshift percussion instrument, or more specifically, an idiophone related to the castanets.
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Standing bell
A standing bell or resting bell is an inverted bell, supported from below with the rim uppermost.
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String instrument
String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.
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Struck idiophone
Struck idiophones is one of the categories of idiophones (that is, any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings or membranes) that are found in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification.
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Suffix
In linguistics, a suffix (sometimes termed postfix) is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.
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Theremin
The theremin (--> originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer).
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Timpani
Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
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Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.
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Trumpet
A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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Tuba
The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.
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Tubular bells
Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
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Udu
The udu is a plosive aerophone (in this case implosive) and an idiophone of the Igbo of Nigeria.
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University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (U of T, UToronto, or Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.
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Victor-Charles Mahillon
Victor-Charles Mahillon (March 10, 1841 in Brussels – June 17, 1924 in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France) was a Belgian musician, instrument builder and writer on musical topics.
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Violin
The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.
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Watering trough
A watering trough (or artificial watering point) is a man-made or natural receptacle intended to provide drinking water to animals, livestock on farms or ranches or wild animals.
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Whirly tube
The whirly tube, corrugaphone, or bloogle resonator, is a experimental musical instrument or toy which consists of a corrugated (ribbed) plastic tube or hose (hollow flexible cylinder), open at both ends and possibly wider at one end (bell), the thinner of which is rotated in a circle to play.
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Whistle
A whistle is an instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air.
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Wind instrument
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube), in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator.
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Xun (instrument)
The xun (Cantonese.
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Xylophone
The xylophone (from the Greek words ξύλον—xylon, "wood" + φωνή—phōnē, "sound, voice", meaning "wooden sound") is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.
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Zither
Zither is a class of stringed instruments.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbostel–Sachs
