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The instrument generates a buzzing sound from the slit between the two tongues when the instrument is struck against the lower palm of the hand of the player. Furthermore, the sound can be altered by covering and uncovering a hole found on the bottom half of the instrument with the thumb of the hand which grasps the instrument.
A number of instruments have been invented, designed, and made, that make sound from matter in its liquid state. This class of instruments is called hydraulophones . Hydraulophones use an incompressible fluid, such as water, as the initial sound-producing medium, and they may also use the hydraulic fluid as a user-interface.
Instruments in which a cord, attached to the membrane, is rubbed. 232.1 Instruments in which the drum is held stationary while playing 232.11 Instruments which have only one usable membrane; 232.12 Instruments which have two usable membranes; 232.2 Instruments in which the drum is twirled by a cord, which rubs in a notch on the stick held by ...
"Philippine Music Instruments". National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Archived from the original on December 1, 2008; Manuel, E. Arsenio (1978). "Towards an Inventory of Philippine Musical Instruments: A Checklist of the Heritage from Twenty-three Ethnolinguistic Groups" (PDF). Asian Studies.
A lip-valley flute like the palendag, the tumpong makes a sound when players blow through a bamboo reed placed on top of the instrument and the air stream produced is passed over an airhole atop the instrument. This masculine instrument is usually played during family gatherings in the evening and is the most common flute played by the ...
From C. R. Day, Plate XVI. The sruti upanga ("drone bagpipe", or bhazana-śruti, [1] druthi, [2] or nosbug [3]) is a type of bagpipe played in Tamil Nadu, southern India. [4] The instrument was often used to supply a drone to accompany mukha vina (Tamil oboe) music.
The bonang is an Indonesian musical instrument used in the Javanese gamelan. [1] It is a collection of small gongs (sometimes called "kettles" or "pots") placed horizontally onto strings in a wooden frame (rancak), either one or two rows wide. All of the kettles have a central boss, but around it the lower-pitched ones have a flattened head ...
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