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2. Tin whistle - Wikipedia

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   The tin whistle is the most popular instrument in Irish traditional music today. [ 22 ] In recent years, a number of instrument builders have started lines of "high-end" hand-made whistles, which can cost hundreds of US dollars each—expensive in comparison to cheap whistles, but nevertheless cheaper than most other instruments.

3. List of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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   Instruments classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as struck or friction idiophones, struck or friction membranophones or struck chordophones. Where an instrument meets this definition but is often or traditionally excluded from the term percussion this is noted. Instruments commonly used as unpitched and/or untuned percussion.

4. 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, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)

5. Flageolet - Wikipedia

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   The flageolet is a woodwind instrument and a member of the family of duct flutes that includes recorders and tin whistles. There are two basic forms of the instrument: the French, having four finger holes on the front and two thumb holes on the back; and the English, having six finger holes on the front and sometimes a single thumb hole on the back.

6. Recorder (musical instrument) - Wikipedia

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   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]

7. Fipple - Wikipedia

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   The Hornbostel–Sachs system for classifying musical instruments places this group under the heading "Flutes with duct or duct flutes." [ 1 ] The label "fipple flute" is frequently applied to members of the subgroup but there is no general agreement about the structural detail of the sound-producing mechanism that constitutes the fipple, itself.

8. Low whistle - Wikipedia

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   The low whistle, or concert whistle, is a variation of the traditional tin whistle/pennywhistle, distinguished by its lower pitch and larger size. It is most closely associated with the performances of British and Irish artists such as Tommy Makem, Finbar Furey and his son Martin Furey, Old Blind Dogs, Michael McGoldrick, Riverdance, Lunasa, Donie Keyes, Chris Conway, and Davy Spillane, and is ...

9. Pipe (instrument) - Wikipedia

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   Shepherds often piped both to soothe the sheep and to amuse themselves. Modern manufactured six-hole folk pipes are referred to as pennywhistle or tin whistle. The recorder is a form of pipe, often used as a rudimentary instructional musical instrument at schools, but versatile enough that it is also used in orchestral music.