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By far the most familiar to most Westerners is the chau gong or bullseye gong. Large chau gongs, called tam-tams [7] have become part of the symphony orchestra. Sometimes a chau gong is referred to as a Chinese gong, but in fact, it is only one of many types of suspended gongs that are associated with China. A chau gong is made of copper-based ...
Electrophones are instruments in which sound is generated by electrical means. While it is not officially in any published form of the Hornbostel–Sachs system, and hence, lacking proper numerical subdivisions, it is often considered a fifth main category.
Idiophone Plastic percussion tubes Bougarabou: West Africa Unpitched 211.261.2 Membranophone Bubon: Ukraine Unpitched 232.311 Membranophone Type of skinned Tambourine Buk: Korea Unpitched 211.222.1 Membrarophone Cabasa: Unpitched 112.122 Idiophone Cajón: Peru Unpitched 111.24 Idiophone Box Drum Cajón de rumba: Cuba Unpitched 111.24 Idiophone ...
121.1 Clack idiophones - The lamella is carved in the surface of a fruit shell, which serves as resonator. Cricri; 121.2 Guimbardes and Jaw harps - The lamella is mounted in a rod- or plaque-shaped frame and depends on the player's mouth cavity for resonance.
A slit drum or slit gong is a hollow percussion instrument. In spite of its often being called a drum, it is not a true drum because it lacks a drumhead, the membrane stretched across the top of a true drum. It is classed instead as an idiophone in which the entire instrument vibrates.
A rudimentary form of lithophone is the "rock gong", usually a natural rock formation opportunistically adapted to produce musical tones, such as that on Mfangano Island, in Lake Victoria, Kenya. The Gaval Dash in Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve outside Baku , Azerbaijan is a natural stone that sounds like tambourine when struck ...
Set of bell plates, range C2–E4, a struck idiophone (played with mallets) or friction idiophone (bowed) Claves (foreground), a struck idiophone. An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity (electrophones).
1: Idiophones. instrument in which the substance of the instrument itself produces sounds, without requiring stretched membranes or strings. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.