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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)
Long String Instrument, (by Ellen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode) Magnetic resonance piano , (strings activated by electromagnetic fields) Stringed instruments with keyboards
Didgeridoo and clapstick players performing at Nightcliff, Northern Territory Sound of didgeridoo A didgeribone, a sliding-type didgeridoo. The didgeridoo (/ ˌ d ɪ dʒ ər i ˈ d uː /), also spelt didjeridu, among other variants, is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing.
This is a wide-ranging, inclusive list of percussion instruments. It includes: 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.
Balaban (instrument) (Azerbaijan) Bassanelli; Bassoon. Soprano bassoon; Tenoroon; Contrabassoon; Biforaers (Sicily) Bombardeers (France) Catalan shawm; Cromorne (French baroque, different from the crumhorn) Contra Forte; Duduk (Armenia) Dulcian; Dulzaina (Spain) Heckelphone. Piccolo heckelphone; Hichiriki (Japan) Kèn bầu (Vietnam) Mizmar ...
Musical instrument construction is a specialized trade that requires years of training, practice, and sometimes an apprenticeship. Most makers of musical instruments specialize in one genre of instruments; for example, a luthier makes only stringed instruments. Some make only one type of instrument such as a piano.
A musical instrument of the cittern family, common in Corsica. 111.224-4 Crete: lyra [39] Three-stringed fretted, pear-shaped instrument with a hollow body and a vaulted back, propped up on the knee 321.21: Croatia: tamburica and Lijerica [40] [41] tamburitza: Lute-like stringed instrument with a long neck, picked or strummed, variable number ...
Euouae, a medieval musical term, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and the word with the most consecutive vowels. However, the "word" itself is simply a mnemonic consisting of the vowels to be sung in the phrase "seculorum Amen" at the end of the lesser doxology .