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The instrument uses a calabash gourd as the body of the instrument, covered by skin, with a stick for a neck. [1] [2] Modern instrument have had the gourd replaced by a can, such as a large sardine can. [1] [3] The neck on the Kontigi has "metal disk surrounded by small rings" which make noise as the instrument is moved or played. [2]
The instrument is usually held by a loop of some form of thread or wire at the top curve, to enable the triangle to vibrate and it is struck with a metal rod called a "beater". The triangle theoretically has indefinite pitch, [1] and produces a plurality of overtones when struck with an appropriate beater.
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 ...
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
The instrument is typically constructed of a single piece of Jezo spruce approximately a metre long. [1] Its shape is traditionally said to resemble a woman's body, and the corresponding words are used for its parts. [citation needed] A pebble is placed within the body-cavity of the instrument, granting it a "soul". [3]
The instrument may have a relationship with the mythological yali, the word for which (யாழி) is linguistically similar to the word for this arched harp (முகம்). Whatever relationship the words may or may not have linguistically, some researchers believe the mythological yali was carved into the tip of the yazh harp's neck. [ 3 ]
Cylix of Apollo with the chelys lyre, on a 5th-century BC drinking cup (). The chelys or chelus (Greek: χέλυς, Latin: testudo, both meaning "turtle" or "tortoise") was a stringed musical instrument, the common lyre of the ancient Greeks, which had a convex back of tortoiseshell or of wood shaped like the shell.
The atoll of Tetiʻaroa in French Polynesia. An atoll (/ ˈ æ t. ɒ l,-ɔː l,-oʊ l, ə ˈ t ɒ l,-ˈ t ɔː l,-ˈ t oʊ l /) [1] is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon. There may be coral islands or cays on the rim. [2] [3] Atolls are located in warm tropical or subtropical parts of the oceans and seas where ...