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African harp: multiple cultures including Egypt 322.11 Arched harp ennanga: Uganda: 322.11 Arched harp [9] Kafir Harp: Music of northern Afghanistan, Nuristan Province: 322.11 Arched harp [9] ladle harp: Ancient Egypt: 322.11 Ladle-shaped arched harp [10] Pagan harp: Pagan Kingdom: 322.11 Arched harp with a thick and blunt neck, only slightly ...
The first three Hornbostel Sachs numbers describe instruments that make sound from matter in its solid state. The fourth HS number describes instruments that make sound from matter in its gaseous state (air). The fifth HS number describes instruments that make sound from electricity and/or electrical energy.
Hornbostel–Sachs classification Description Assyrian harp: Assyrian {{{Number}}} Oldest-documented angular harp [1] brnt: Egypt: 322.12 Used in widely varying forms, though originally semi-circular and with five to seven strings, number of strings increased over time, while the size decreased [2] [3] chang: Persian: 322.12 Angular harp [2 ...
This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 322.212.1 under that system. These instruments are chromatic frame harps with strings in one plane. 3: Instruments in which sound is produced by one or more vibrating strings (chordophones, string instruments).
Instrument Tradition Hornbostel–Sachs classification Description harp, Paraguayan [1] [2] [3]: Paraguay: 322.211 Diatonic harp with 32, 36, 38 or 40 strings, made from tropical wood and with songs in the Guarani language, with an exaggerated neck-arch, played with the fingernail
Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie in 1914. [1] An English translation was published in the Galpin Society Journal in 1961.
This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 32 under that system. This category includes all string instruments in which the resonator cannot be removed without resulting in the destruction of the instrument, labelled as composite chordophones.
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.