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  2. List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number

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    The Hornbostel–Sachs system categorizes musical instruments by how they make sound. It divides instruments into five groups: idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, aerophones, and electrophones. A number of instruments also exist outside the five main classes.

  3. Shō (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    A woman playing the shō. The shō was first used as a solo instrument for contemporary music by the Japanese performer Mayumi Miyata.Miyata and other shō players who specialize in contemporary music use specially constructed instruments whose silent pipes are replaced by pipes that sound notes unavailable on the more traditional instrument, giving a wider range of pitches.

  4. Hornbostel–Sachs - Wikipedia

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    Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie in 1914. [1]

  5. List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 321. ...

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    This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.314 under that system. These instruments may be known as spike frame lutes . 3 : Instruments in which sound is produced by one or more vibrating strings ( chordophones , string instruments ).

  6. List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 311. ...

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    This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 311.121.221 under that system. These instruments are single-stringed heterochord musical bows with an attached resonator but without a tuning noose.

  7. List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 322.221

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    This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 322.221 under that system. These instruments are board zithers that use slats as resonators. 3: Instruments in which sound is produced by one or more vibrating strings (chordophones, string instruments).

  8. 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 ...

  9. List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 314.122

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    This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 314.122 under that system (box zithers). These instruments are board zithers that use slats as resonators. 3: Instruments in which sound is produced by one or more vibrating strings (chordophones, string instruments).