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  2. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)

  3. List of percussion instruments - Wikipedia

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    Instruments commonly part of the percussion section of a band or orchestra. These three groups overlap heavily, but inclusion in any one is sufficient for an instrument to be included in this list. However, when only a specific subtype of the instrument qualifies as a percussion instrument, only that subtype is listed here.

  4. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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    Toggle Stringed instruments with keyboards subsection. 5.1 Struck. 5.2 Plucked. 5.3 Bowed. 5.4 Other/hybrid. 6 Stringed instruments by country. 7 See also. 8 References.

  5. Fret - Wikipedia

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    Instruments with straight frets like guitars require a special compensation on the saddle and nut. Every time a string is fretted it is also stretched, and as it stretches the string rises in pitch, making all fretted tones sound sharp. When the saddle is positioned properly, however, the fretted tones all sound sharp to the same degree as long ...

  6. List of national instruments (music) - Wikipedia

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    Fretted stringed instrument with a hollow body 321.322: Puerto Rico: cuatro [118] Fretted stringed instrument with a hollow body, derived from the Spanish tiple and other stringed instruments, made from carved wood with strings (ten, in five sets of two) of leather strips or dried animal gut 321.322: Rome, Ancient: tibiae [119] aulos (Greek name)

  7. List of percussion instruments by type - Wikipedia

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  8. String instrument - Wikipedia

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    Bowed instruments include the string section instruments of the orchestra in Western classical music (violin, viola, cello and double bass) and a number of other instruments (e.g., viols and gambas used in early music from the Baroque music era and fiddles used in many types of folk music).

  9. List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 321.321

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    This is a list of instruments sorted according to the Hornbostel-Sachs number system, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.321 under that system. These instruments may be known as necked bowl lutes. 3: Instruments in which sound is produced by one or more vibrating strings (chordophones, string instruments).