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  2. List of idiophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number - Wikipedia

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    Cymbals, in pairs. Clash Cymbals in pairs. 111.2 Percussion Idiophones. 111.21 Percussion sticks or bars. 111.211 Individual percussion sticks. Dhantal. Triangle. 111.212 Sets of percussion sticks in a range of different pitches combined into one instrument. - All xylophones, as long as their sounding components are not in two different planes.

  3. List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number

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    Electrophones are instruments in which sound is generated by electrical means. While it is not officially in any published form of the Hornbostel–Sachs system, and hence, lacking proper numerical subdivisions, it is often considered a fifth main category. Croix Sonore. Denis d'or. Drum machine.

  4. Idiophone - Wikipedia

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    An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity (electrophones). It is the first of the four main divisions in the original Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical ...

  5. Triangle (musical instrument) - Wikipedia

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    111.211 Individual percussion sticks. The triangle is a musical instrument in the percussion family, classified as an idiophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system. Triangles are made from a variety of metals including aluminum, beryllium copper, brass, bronze, iron, and steel. The metal is bent into a triangular shape with one open end.

  6. Category:Idiophones - Wikipedia

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    Category:Idiophones. Category. : Idiophones. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Idiophones. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, idiophones are designated as '1'. 1: Idiophones. instrument in which the substance of the instrument itself produces sounds, without requiring stretched membranes or strings.

  7. Xylophone - Wikipedia

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    Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use. The term xylophone may be used generally, to include all such instruments such as the marimba, balafon and even the ...

  8. Lamellophone - Wikipedia

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    A Jew's harp. A lamellophone (also lamellaphone or linguaphone) is a member of the family of musical instruments that makes its sound by a thin vibrating plate called a lamella or tongue, which is fixed at one end and has the other end free. When the musician depresses the free end of a plate with a finger or fingernail, and then allows the ...

  9. Struck idiophone - Wikipedia

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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. Struck idiophones are categorised as 11 in ...