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Cromorne is a French woodwind reed instrument of uncertain identity [clarification needed], used in the early Baroque period in French court music. The name is sometimes confused with the similar-sounding name crumhorn, a musical woodwind instrument probably of different design, called "tournebout" by French theorists in the 17th century. [1] [2]
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
Console of the organ, an electrically actuated lithophone. The Great Stalacpipe Organ is an electrically actuated lithophone located in Luray Caverns, Virginia, USA.Covering 3.5 acres of the cavern, it is considered the world's largest instrument by Guinness World Records.
The organ is the world's largest pipe organ located in a sacred building. The console has 874 switches for activating the stops, and the action is electro-pneumatic. The instrument is estimated to weigh over 124 tons, and is organized in 23 divisions. [39] It is continually being enlarged. This organ is played for more than 300 services each year.
The organ was awarded four entries in Guinness World Records, including the largest and loudest musical instrument ever constructed. It is one of only two organs in the world to have an open 64-foot pipe rank, and the only organ to have pipes voiced on 100 inches of wind pressure (3.6 psi or 0.25 atm ) and a console featuring 7 manuals and ...
The French C tuba was the standard instrument in French orchestras until overtaken by F and C tubas since the Second World War. One popular example of the use of the French C tuba is the Bydło movement in Ravel 's orchestration of Mussorgsky 's Pictures at an Exhibition , though the rest of the work is scored for this instrument as well.
Didgeridoo and clapstick players performing at Nightcliff, Northern Territory Sound of didgeridoo A didgeribone, a sliding-type didgeridoo. The didgeridoo (/ ˌ d ɪ dʒ ər i ˈ d uː /), also spelt didjeridu, among other variants, is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using a special breathing technique called circular breathing.
Long String Instrument, (by Ellen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode) Magnetic resonance piano , (strings activated by electromagnetic fields) Stringed instruments with keyboards