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There are lots of tuned percussion instruments. Among the most common are the xylophone, marimba, the glockenspiel, the cowbells and the temple blocks. Other authorities cited here however say that temple blocks are not considered pitched instruments. ^ "Marching machine". Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary.
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, flutes are edge-blown aerophones. [1]
Suling, transverse bamboo flute, Papua, New Guinea. The word suling describes mostly lengthways flutes but also some transverse flutes made of bamboo. The suling (Sundanese: ᮞᮥᮜᮤᮀ) is a musical instrument of the Sundanese people in Indonesia. It is used in the Degung ensemble.
Hotchiku. Natural utaguchi without inlay. The hotchiku (法竹 ほっちく, "bamboo of [the] dharma "; lit. 'dharma bamboo'), sometimes romanized as hocchiku or hochiku, is a Japanese aerophone, an end-blown bamboo flute, crafted from root sections of bamboo. [1] The bamboo root is cleaned and sanded, resulting in a surface patterned with many ...
Hsaing waing ensemble is seen behind the singers. The hsaing waing (Burmese: ဆိုင်းဝိုင်း, pronounced [sʰáiɰ̃ wáiɰ̃]; also spelt saing waing), commonly dubbed the Burmese traditional orchestra (မြန်မာ့ဆိုင်း), is a traditional Burmese folk musical ensemble that accompanies numerous forms of rituals, performances, and ceremonies in modern ...
Shinobue. The shinobue (kanji: 篠笛; also called takebue (kanji: 竹笛) in the context of Japanese traditional arts) is a Japanese transverse flute or fue that has a high-pitched sound [citation needed]. It is found in hayashi and nagauta ensembles, and plays important roles in noh and kabuki theatre music. [citation needed]
Free reed aerophone. A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound as air flows past a vibrating reed in a frame. Air pressure is typically generated by breath or with a bellows. In the Hornbostel–Sachs system, it is number: 412.13 (a member of interruptive free aerophones).
Squeezebox. Diatonic button accordion (German make, early 20th century). The term squeezebox (also squeeze box, squeeze-box) is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows -driven free reed aerophones such as the accordion and the concertina. The term is so applied because such ...