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An assortment of musical instruments in an Istanbul music store. This is a list of musical instruments , including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones and membranophones)
A musical instrument of the cittern family, common in Corsica. 111.224-4 Crete: lyra [39] Three-stringed fretted, pear-shaped instrument with a hollow body and a vaulted back, propped up on the knee 321.21: Croatia: tamburica and Lijerica [40] [41] tamburitza: Lute-like stringed instrument with a long neck, picked or strummed, variable number ...
Butting – a bow with a single hemp 5 string, plucked with a small stick. Faglong – a two-stringed, lute-like instrument of the B'laan; made in 1997. Budlong – bamboo zither. Kolitong – a bamboo zither. Pas-ing – a two-stringed bamboo with a hole in the middle from Apayao people. Kudyapi – a two-stringed boat lute from Mindanao.
Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...
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 is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. A person who plays a musical instrument is known as an instrumentalist.
San-no-tsuzumi (三の鼓) – hourglass-shaped double-headed drum; struck only on one side. Sasara (ささら) – clapper made from wooden slats connected by a rope or cord. Sekkin – a lithophone either bowed or struck. Shime-daiko ( 締太鼓) – small drum played with sticks.
A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification, such as the Hornbostel-Sachs system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families. Some commonly recognized families are: Strings family. Woodwind family.
Bamboo is also used to make slit drums. Traditional Philippine bamboo ensemble use a variety of bamboo musical instruments, including the marimba, angklung, panpipes and bumbong, as well as bamboo versions of western instruments, such as clarinets, saxophones, and tubas. [2] The Las Piñas Bamboo Organ in the Philippines has pipes made of ...