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  2. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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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 and membranophones)

  3. Xylophone - Wikipedia

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    ' sound of wood ') is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. 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.

  4. Musical instrument classification - Wikipedia

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    The criteria for classifying musical instruments vary depending on the point of view, time, and place. The many various approaches examine aspects such as the physical properties of the instrument (shape, construction, material composition, physical state, etc.), the manner in which the instrument is played (plucked, bowed, etc.), the means by which the instrument produces sound, the quality ...

  5. Brass instrument - Wikipedia

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    Six high brass instruments Left, from top: A reproduction baroque trumpet in D, a modern trumpet in B ♭, a modern trumpet in D, a piccolo trumpet in B ♭ (octave higher), and a flugelhorn in B ♭. Right: a cornet in B ♭. A tenor horn (alto horn) in E ♭, baritone horn in B ♭, and euphonium in B ♭

  6. String instrument - Wikipedia

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    When an electric guitar is plugged into a loud, powerful guitar amplifier with a loudspeaker and a high level of distortion is intentionally used, the guitar produces sustained high-pitched sounds. By changing the proximity of the guitar to the speaker, the guitarist can produce sounds that cannot be produced with standard plucking and picking ...

  7. Musical instrument - Wikipedia

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    A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. A person who plays a musical instrument is known as an instrumentalist. The history of musical instruments dates to ...

  8. Triangle (musical instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The triangle is typically suspended from a triangle clip that suspends the triangle so that it is free to vibrate. When the instrument is played with one beater, the hand that holds the triangle clip can also be used to damp or slightly modify the sound. The triangle is usually struck with a metal beater, giving a high-pitched, ringing tone.

  9. Oboe - Wikipedia

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    The instrument may in fact have had multiple inventors. [20] The hautbois quickly spread throughout Europe, including Great Britain, where it was called hautboy, hoboy, hautboit, howboye, and similar variants of the French name. [21] It was the main melody instrument in early military bands, until it was succeeded by the clarinet. [22]

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