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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). It is the first of the four main divisions in the original Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical ...
Category:Idiophones. Category. : Idiophones. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Idiophones. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, idiophones are designated as '1'. 1: Idiophones. instrument in which the substance of the instrument itself produces sounds, without requiring stretched membranes or strings.
111.242 Idiophone Commonly used in Samba. Agung: Philippines Unpitched 111.241.2 Idiophone Agung a tamlang: Philippines 111.24 Idiophone Alarm device: Both May be electronic or mechanical Alfaia: Brazil Unpitched 211.212.1 Membranophone Alligator drum: China Unpitched 211.2 Membranophone Angklung: Indonesia Pitched 111.232 Idiophone [1] Anvil ...
This is a list of musical instruments, ... H-S Number Origin Common classification Relation Afoxé: idiophones: 112.122: Edo (Nigeria), Brazil ...
Struck idiophone. Struck idiophones is one of the categories of idiophones (that is, any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings or membranes) that are found in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification. Struck idiophones are categorised as 11 in ...
Blown idiophone. A blown idiophone is one of the categories of musical instruments found in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification. These idiophones produce sound when stimulated by moving air. For example, the aeolsklavier features sticks while the piano chanteur features plaques.
The balafon (pronounced / ˈ b æ l ə f ɒ n /, or, by analogy with xylophone etc., / ˈ b æ l ə f oʊ n /) is a gourd-resonated xylophone, a type of struck idiophone. [1] It is closely associated with the neighbouring Mandé, Bwaba Bobo, Senoufo and Gur peoples of West Africa, [1] [2] particularly the Guinean branch of the Mandinka ethnic group, [3] but is now found across West Africa from ...
An ideophone is any word in a certain word class evoking ideas in sound imitation (onomatopoeia) to express an action, manner, or property. The class of ideophones is the least common syntactic category cross-linguistically; it occurs mostly in African, Australian, and Amerindian languages, and sporadically elsewhere.