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...

This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. AlphaSphere Audiocubes Bass pedals Continuum...

electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry. Such an instrument sounds by outputting...

The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as internal duct flutes: flutes with a whistle mouthpiece, also known as fipple...

In organology, the study of musical instruments, many methods of classifying instruments exist. Most methods are specific to a particular cultural group...

In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer...

Grouping of musical instruments, Tang dynasty Chinese musical instruments are traditionally grouped into eight categories known as bā yīn (八音). The eight...

Musical instruments of the Indian subcontinent can be broadly classified according to the Hornbostel–Sachs system into four categories: chordophones (string...

The triangle is a musical instrument in the percussion family, classified as an idiophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system. Triangles are...

double reed instrument with two pipes, is the origin of the word Hydr-aulis (water-aerophone). The organ is a relatively old musical instrument, dating from...

Traditional Japanese musical instruments, known as wagakki (和楽器) in Japanese, are musical instruments used in the traditional folk music of Japan. They...

A sampler is an electronic musical instrument that records and plays back samples (portions of sound recordings). Samples may comprise elements such as...

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of...

experimental musical instrument (or custom-made instrument) is a musical instrument that modifies or extends an existing instrument or class of instruments, or...

This is a list of musical instruments used in traditional music of Assam, India.Folk instruments of assam "Home". Anvesha.co.in. Archived from the original...

rub) are used as a percussion instrument, employing the ribbed metal surface of the cleaning device as a rhythm instrument. As traditionally used in jazz...

pochette is a small stringed instrument of the bowed variety. It is essentially a very small violin-like wood instrument designed to fit in a pocket,...

Call-and-response remains a central aspect of Breton music regardless of the instruments used. Prior to World War I, a given pair of Soners (musicians) would...

Persian musical instruments or Iranian musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories: classical, Western and folk. Most of Persian...

Arabic musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories: string instruments (chordophones), wind instruments (aerophones), and percussion...

A clapper is a basic form of percussion instrument. It consists of two long solid pieces that are struck together producing sound. They exist in many forms...

The word shaker describes various percussive musical instruments used for creating rhythm in music. They are called shakers because the method of creating...

Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (株式会社河合楽器製作所, Kabushiki-gaisha Kawai Gakki Seisakusho, TYO: 7952) is a musical instrument manufacturing...

a mono string instrument falling in the lute category, slightly similar to some of the traditional Indian stringed musical instruments such as the ravanahatha...

family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification...

A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that when struck vibrates in a single strong strike...

Fletcher, Neville H.; Rossing, Thomas D. (1998). The Physics of Musical Instruments. Springer Publishing. p. 569. ISBN 978-0387983745. Adato, Joseph...

United States, spoons as instrument are associated with American folk music, minstrelsy, and jug and spasm bands. These musical genres make use of other...

Traditional Korean musical instruments comprise a wide range of string, wind, and percussion instruments. Many traditional Korean musical instruments (especially...

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the...