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2. List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number

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   A number of instruments have been invented, designed, and made, that make sound from matter in its liquid state. This class of instruments is called hydraulophones . Hydraulophones use an incompressible fluid, such as water, as the initial sound-producing medium, and they may also use the hydraulic fluid as a user-interface.

3. String instrument - Wikipedia

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   All string instruments produce sound from one or more vibrating strings, transferred to the air by the body of the instrument (or by a pickup in electronically amplified instruments). They are usually categorised by the technique used to make the strings vibrate (or by the primary technique, in the case of instruments where more than one may ...

4. Musical instrument - Wikipedia

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   A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. A person who plays a musical instrument is known as an instrumentalist. The history of musical instruments dates to ...

5. Hornbostel–Sachs - Wikipedia

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   Present-day ethnomusicologists, such as Margaret Kartomi (page 173) and Ellingson (PhD dissertation, 1979, p. 544), might support the suggestion that, in keeping with the spirit of the original Hornbostel–Sachs classification scheme, of categorization by what first produces the initial sound in the instrument, that the supposed class 412.13 ...

6. List of keyboard instruments - Wikipedia

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   A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, ... Idiophones produce sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, ...

7. Brass instrument - Wikipedia

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   Instruments made mostly from plastic emerged in the 2010s as a cheaper and more robust alternative to brass. [14] [15] Plastic instruments could come in almost any colour. The sound plastic instruments produce is different from the one of brass, lacquer, gold or silver. [16]