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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)
Woman playing a tambourine, from "The Assumption of the Virgin" by Matteo di Giovanni. Hourglass drum: Images in miniatures in the Cantigas de Santa Maria and the Valcavado Beatus show an hourglass drum was in use in Spain. Such drums are used in northern Africa and may have entered Europe with the Moorish soldiers who conquered the Iberian ...
The clavichord is an example of a period instrument.. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written.
One of a few instruments that has a connection between Stradivarius and Nicola Amati, with whom Stradivarius may have worked as an apprentice. The violin includes the label Alumnus Nicolais Amati. [1] ex-Sachs: c. 1666 Madame Sachs Historically important and one of the earliest known violins by Stradivari. In 2008 for sale by Poesis Fine ...
Lists of women in music cover different categories of women in music, including composers, conductors, groups, musicians and singers. They are organized by instrument, nationality, style and so on. They are organized by instrument, nationality, style and so on.
Other instruments in common use in the region included vertical harps derived from those of the Orient, lutes of Egyptian design, various pipes and organs, and clappers, which were played primarily by women. [48] Evidence of musical instruments in use by early civilizations of India is almost completely lacking, making it impossible to reliably ...
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.
Woman playing pulluvan veena. Musical instruments of the Indian subcontinent can be broadly classified according to the Hornbostel–Sachs system into four categories: chordophones (string instruments), aerophones (wind instruments), membranophones (drums) and idiophones (non-drum percussion instruments).