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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, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
Oddmusic A website dedicated to unique, odd, ethnic, experimental and unusual musical instruments and resources. From the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Ethnomusicology Collection: A collection of photographs of over 250 musical instruments from around the world. Idiophones; Membranophones; Chordophones; Aerophones
Instruments commonly part of the percussion section of a band or orchestra. These three groups overlap heavily, but inclusion in any one is sufficient for an instrument to be included in this list. However, when only a specific subtype of the instrument qualifies as a percussion instrument, only that subtype is listed here.
Pages in category "Lists of musical instruments" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
And there is the center pan el of the "Virgin and Child", attributed to Pedro (Pere) Serra (c. 1390), as painted for the church of Santa Clara, Tortosa, Spain and now in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona—a group of angels gathered around the Virgin Mary, playing musical instruments, one of them playing a cylindrical recorder. [2]
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 ...
A musical instrument is a device that has been modified or constructed specifically for the purpose of making music.In principle, anything that somehow produces sound can serve as a musical instrument, but the term is generally reserved for items having this specific purpose.
The history of musical instruments dates to the beginnings of human culture. Early musical instruments may have been used for rituals, such as a horn to signal success on the hunt, or a drum in a religious ceremony. Cultures eventually developed composition and performance of melodies for entertainment. Musical instruments evolved in step with ...