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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. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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)

  6. Resonator guitar - Wikipedia

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    Valco produced a large volume and variety of fretted instruments under many names, with National as its premium brand. By the early 1960s, Valco again produced resonator guitars for mail order under the brand name National. These instruments had biscuit resonators and bodies of wood and fiberglass.

  7. 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.

  8. List of percussion instruments by type - Wikipedia

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    Agogo bells; Anvil; Dayereh (doyra); Frame drum; Finger cymbals; Flexatone; Glass harp; Jam blocks; Jordan Slap; Knee Slap; Marching machine; Monkey stick (mendoza or ...

  9. Family of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification , such as the Hornbostel-Sachs system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families.