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Abraham Bloemaert playing a bagpipe.. 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.
Instrument Picture Classification H-S Number Elementary organology class Origin Common classification Relation Celesta-struck idiophone-metallophone-set of percussion plaques
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]
Gendang beleq is a dance and music performance from Lombok island, Indonesia. [1] It is a popular performance among the native Sasak people.. The name gendang beleq is a Sasak language term, which means "big drum (big gendang)", [2] as the performance is about a group of musicians playing, dancing and marching with their traditional instruments, centered on two big drum (gendang) players.
A Murut Sompoton.. Accordion; Harmonium - used in classical Malay music of Malay Ghazal.; Nafiri - used in classical Malay music of Nobat; Seruling; Serunai - used in classical Malay music of Nobat and traditional performances such as Wayang Kulit, Menora and Silat.
Bredow, Moritz von. 2012. "Rebellische Pianistin. Das Leben der Grete Sultan zwischen Berlin und New York." (Biography). Schott Music, Mainz, Germany. ISBN 978-3-7957-0800-9 (Contains important references to Curt Sachs, who became a most helpful friend of pianist Grete Sultan, as Professor in Berlin and New York).
Gage Averill playing an experimental hydraulophone pipe organ made from a piece of sewer drainage pipe and plumbing fittings in 2006 . An experimental musical instrument (or custom-made instrument) is a musical instrument that modifies or extends an existing instrument or class of instruments, or defines or creates a new class of instrument.
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.