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2. Category : Musical instruments played with soft mallets

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   Pages in category "Musical instruments played with soft mallets" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.

3. Woodblock (instrument) - Wikipedia

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   The sound of a woodblock. A woodblock (also spelled as two words, wood block) is a small slit drum made from a single piece of wood. The term generally signifies the Western orchestral instrument, but may also refer to the Chinese woodblock. Alternative names sometimes used in ragtime and jazz are clog box and tap box.

4. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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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 and membranophones)

5. Musical instrument classification - Wikipedia

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   The criteria for classifying musical instruments vary depending on the point of view, time, and place. The many various approaches examine aspects such as the physical properties of the instrument (shape, construction, material composition, physical state, etc.), the manner in which the instrument is played (plucked, bowed, etc.), the means by which the instrument produces sound, the quality ...

6. Shawm - Wikipedia

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   The shawm was reserved almost exclusively for outdoor performance—for softer, indoor music, other instruments such as the crumhorn and cornamuse were preferred. These were double reed instruments fitted with a capsule that completely enclosed the reed, which softened the sound but still did not allow for any variation in dynamics.

7. Xylophone - Wikipedia

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   ' sound of wood ') is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale , whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use.

8. Balaban (instrument) - Wikipedia

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   Balaban, which is often called also yasti (flat) balaban for flat mouthpiece and soft sound, consists of body made of apricot wood, cane, barrow and cover. The body has 8 holes on the surface and 1 on the back in the middle of the first and second holes (sound fret) on the surface. [9] It consists of a stem, a reed, a regulator, and a cap. [10]

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. Some commonly recognized families are: Strings family; Woodwind family ...