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A Musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound, and can...
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| Classical guitar |
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Musical Performance Role | Guitar | Nylon string guitar |
The "classical guitar" is named such as its construction design is in the fashion the ancient luthiers of northern Europe. The classical guitar, also known as the "nylon string guitar", "gut string guitar", "flamenco guitar","spruce top" and "flat...
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| Clarinet |
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Musical Performance Role | Woodwind instrument |
The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a...
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| Cello |
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Musical Performance Role | String instrument |
The violoncello (abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural cellos or celli—the c is , as in the ch in "checkerboard", thus "Chell-lo") is a bowed string instrument. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument...
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| Double bass |
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Musical Performance Role | Bowed string instruments |
The double bass is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument used in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a standard member of the string section of the symphony orchestra and smaller string ensemble in Western classical music. In...
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| Horn |
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The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. It is descended from the natural horn and is informally known as the French horn.
Most horns have finger-operated rotary valve; some horns like...
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| Harp |
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Musical Performance Role | String instrument |
The harp is a stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicular to the soundboard. All harps have a neck, resonator and strings. Some, known as frame harps, also have a forepillar; those lacking the forepillar are...
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| Harmonica |
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A harmonica is a free reed wind instrument which is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes (reed chambers) or multiple holes. The pressure caused by blowing or drawing air into the reed chambers causes...
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| Koto |
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The koto (琴 or 箏) is a traditional Japan stringed musical instrument derived from Chinese zither (Guzheng). The koto is the national instrument of Japan. Koto are about long and have 13 strings that are strung over 13 movable bridges along the...
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| Oboe |
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Musical Performance Role | Woodwind instrument | Cor anglais |
The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois", "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a...
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| Trombone |
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Musical Performance Role | Brass instrument | Bass Trombone |
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, it is a lip-reed aerophone; sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips (embouchure) cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate. The trombone is...
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| Trumpet |
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Musical Performance Role | Brass |
The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC. They are constructed of brass tubing bent twice into an oblong shape, and are...
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| Tuba |
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Brass instrument |
The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid...
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| Violin |
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Musical Performance Role | String instrument | Baroque violin |
The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifth. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello.
A violin is sometimes informally...
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| Viola |
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Musical Performance Role | String instrument |
The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.
The casual observer may mistake the viola for the violin because of their similarity in size, closeness in pitch range (the...
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| Tin whistle |
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Musical Performance Role | Fipple flutes |
The low whistle, or concert whistle, is a variation of the traditional tin whistle/pennywhistle, distinguished by its lower pitch and larger size. It is most closely associated with the performances of modern Irish musicians and groups such as...
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| Piccolo |
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Musical Performance Role | Woodwind instrument |
The piccolo is a small flute. Like the flute, the piccolo is normally pitched in the key of C, one octave above the concert flute (making it, effectively, a sopranino flute). Music for the piccolo is written one octave lower than concert pitch....
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| Wagner tuba |
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The Wagner tuba is a comparatively rare brass instrument that combines elements of both the horn and the tuba. It was originally created for Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. Since then, other composers have written for it, most...
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| Sampler |
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A sampler is an electronic music instrument closely related to a synthesizer. Instead of generating sounds from scratch, however, a sampler starts with multiple recordings (or "samples") of different sounds, and then plays each back based on how the...
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| Bass clarinet |
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Musical Artist | Woodwind instrument |
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B♭ clarinet, it is usually pitched in B♭ (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B♭), but it plays notes an octave below...
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| Fife |
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A fife is a small, high-pitched, transverse flute that is similar to the piccolo, but louder and shriller due to its narrower bore. The fife originated in medieval Europe and is often used in military and marching band. Someone who plays the fife is...
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| Western concert flute |
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The Western concert flute or C flute (most flutes are tuned to the key of C) is a popular transverse side-blown musical instrument made of metal. It is the most common variant of the flute, an instrument of the woodwind family. It is recognisable by...
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| Organum |
An organum is any one of a number of musical instruments which were the forerunners of the organ.
The name comes from the Latin organum, meaning any tool in general or any musical instrument in particular (or an organ of the body), which in turn...
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| Pate |
A Pate is a Samoa percussion instrument. It is made from a hollowed-out log, and produces a distinctive and loud sound. it comes in different sizes.
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| Regal |
The regal was a small late-medieval portable organ, furnished with beating reeds and having two bellows like a positive organ. In Germany, the name was also given to the reed stops (beating reeds) of a large organ, and more especially the vox humana...
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| Jug |
The jug as a musical instrument reached its height of popularity in the 1920s, when jug band, such as Cannon's Jug Stompers were popular. (Recording of jug band with two jugs, demonstrating pitch-bending (portamento), double- and triple-tonguing: 20...
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| Tama |
The talking drum is a West Africa drum whose pitch can be regulated to the extent that it is said the drum "talks". The player puts the drum under one shoulder and beats the instrument with a stick. A talking drum player raises or lowers the pitch...
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| Babendil |
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The babendil is a single, narrow-rimmed Philippine gongused primary as the “timekeeper” of the Maguindanao kulintang ensemble.
The babendil usually has a diameter of roughly one foot making it larger than the largest kulintang gong and comparable...
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| Dabakan |
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The dabakan is a single-headed Philippine drum, primarily used as a supportive instrument in the kulintang ensemble. Among the five main kulintang instruments, it is the only non-gong element of the Maguindanao ensemble.
The dabakan is frequently...
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| Gandingan |
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The gandingan is a Philippine set of four, large hanging gong used specifically by the Maguindanao as part of their kulintang ensemble. When integrated into the ensemble, it functions as a secondary melodic instrument after the main melodic...
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| Buccin |
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The buccin is a visually distinctive trombone popularized in military bands in France between 1810–1845 which subsequently faded into obscurity.
The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians devotes but two sentences to the buccin: “A form of...
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| Kane |
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The (IPA: kɑːnɛ) is a type of bell from Japan. The same pronunciation of the word in Japanese can also mean metal or money.
Often accompanying Japanese folk music, or min'you, is a dish-shaped also called "Syou" from chainese pronunciation. It...
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| Ligature |
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A ligature is a device which holds a reed on to the mouthpiece of some woodwind instruments such as the saxophone and clarinet. On early clarinets the reed was instead secured by wrapping it with string, and this method is still preferred by most...
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| Organ | |||||
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| Flute | Musical Performance Role | Woodwind instrument | Fipple flutes | ||
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| Brass | Musical Performance Role | Wind instruments | Natural brass instruments | ||
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| Slide brass instruments | |||||
| Trumpet | |||||
| Natural brass instruments | Musical Performance Role | Brass | Bugle | ||
| Ophicleide | |||||
| Shofar | |||||
| Conch | |||||
| Didgeridoo | |||||
| Bugle | Musical Performance Role | Natural brass instruments | |||
| Ophicleide | Musical Performance Role | Natural brass instruments | |||
| Shofar | Musical Performance Role | Natural brass instruments | |||
| Other string instruments | Musical Performance Role | String instrument | Aeolian harp | ||
| Hurdy gurdy | |||||
| Washtub bass | |||||
| Aeolian harp | Musical Performance Role | Other string instruments | |||
| Hurdy gurdy | Musical Performance Role | Other string instruments | |||
| Washtub bass |
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Musical Performance Role | Other string instruments |
washtub bass, or "gutbucket," is a stringed instrument used in American folk music that uses a metal washtub as a resonator. Although it is possible for a washtub bass to have four or more strings and tuning pegs, traditional washtub basses have a...
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| Percussion instruments |
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Musical Performance Role | Drums |
A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. The term usually applies to an object used in a rhythmic context or...
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| Pandeiro | |||||
| Drums | Musical Performance Role | Percussion instruments | |||