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

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...

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

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...

produced. The most widely used classification system for musical instruments, Hornbostel–Sachs, takes this approach. Musical usage, in particular the traditional...

(organon) 'instrument' and λόγος (logos), 'the study of') is the science of musical instruments and their classifications. It embraces study of instruments' history...

A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument. Capable of continuous glissando (portamento), the sound creates an...

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

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

system of musical instrument classification defines idiophones as all instruments in which sound is produced primarily by way of the instrument itself vibrating...

of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification. According to Sachs, The sound is produced by a membrane ["skin"...

The Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification groups all instruments which make sound primarily by way of electrically driven oscillators...

""A Koto" by Any Other name: Exploring Japanese Systems of Musical Instrument Classification". Asian Music. 49: 38–64. Deal, William E. (2006). Handbook...

original on 8 September 2014. Revision of the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments by the MIMO Consortium "Temple blocks". Virginia Tech Multimedia...

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...

The Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification groups all instruments in which sound is produced through vibrating air. This can include...

The Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification defines chordophones as all instruments in which sound is primarily produced by the vibration...

Quintet. Problems playing these files? See media help. A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which...

Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification (see List of idiophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number). The early classification of Victor-Charles Mahillon...

wind instrument, a set of flutes that falls under more than one modern category in the Hornbostel Sachs system of musical instrument classification. The...

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

and astronomy got a new classification of celestial bodies. Hornbostel–Sachs is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz...

Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first...

Polyphony is a property of musical instruments that means that they can play multiple independent melody lines simultaneously. Instruments featuring polyphony...

Sachs–Hornbostel system of musical instrument classification which he co-authored with Curt Sachs. Hornbostel was born in Vienna into a musical family. The House...

Chinese musical instruments were traditionally classified according to the materials used in their construction. The eight classifications are silk, bamboo...

(also lamellaphone or linguaphone) is a member of the family of musical instruments that makes its sound by a thin vibrating plate called a lamella or...

Angular harp is a category of musical instruments in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification. It describes a harp in which "the...