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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, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
Media in category "Musical instruments in art" The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. Georges Braque, 1909-10, La guitare (Mandora, La Mandore), oil on canvas, 71.1 x 55.9 cm, Tate Modern, London.jpg 1,287 × 1,536; 225 KB
Instruments classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as struck or friction idiophones, struck or friction membranophones or struck chordophones. Where an instrument meets this definition but is often or traditionally excluded from the term percussion this is noted. Instruments commonly used as unpitched and/or untuned percussion.
A musical instrument is a device that has been modified or constructed specifically for the purpose of making music.In principle, anything that somehow produces sound can serve as a musical instrument, but the term is generally reserved for items having this specific purpose.
A crystallophone is a musical instrument that produces sound from glass. One of the best known crystallophones is the glass harmonica, a set of rotating glass bowls which produce eerie, clear tones when rubbed with a wet finger. Musical glasses, the glass harp, were documented in Persia in the 14th century. [1]
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Calliope on the Minne-Ha-Ha, a stern-wheeler on Lake George, New York Kitch Greenhouse Steam Calliope at the Ohio Historical Society – July 2006 Fairground calliope trailer being hauled by a U.S.-built traction engine – New Orleans Mardi Gras 2007 Steam calliope (c. 1901) built by George Kratz and used on the showboat French's New Sensation at The Mariners' Museum
This is the more common arrangement for modern instruments, and an instrument described simply as a "virginal" is likely to be a spinet virginals. The principal differences in construction lie mainly in the placement of the keyboard: Italian instruments invariably had a keyboard that projected from the case, whilst northern virginals had their ...