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Arched harp with a curving neck and large soundholes, made from two sticks [12] [13] shoulder harp: Ancient Egypt: 322.11 Arched harp with a boat-shaped hollow body surrounded by a skin membrane, with ten soundholes and traversed and punctured by one or two sticks to which the string is attached; [5] [14] shovel harp: Ancient Egypt: 322.11
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
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).
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.
The Hornbostel–Sachs system categorizes musical instruments by how they make sound. It divides instruments into five groups: idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, aerophones, and electrophones. It divides instruments into five groups: idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, aerophones, and electrophones.
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 ...
Hornbostel–Sachs classification Description Aeolian harp æolian harp, wind harp 314.122 Box zither placed near a window so that wind stimulates the strings chakhe [1] [2] [3] charakhe, jakhe, ja-khe, krapeu, takhe, takkhe: Cambodia, Thailand: 314.122-6 [4] Fretted zither with three strings that are plucked with a plectrum cimbalom [5]
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