A lamellophone (also lamellaphone or linguaphone) is a member of the family of musical instruments that makes its sound by a thin vibrating plate called...
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Jew's harp, also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached...
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Mbira (category Comb lamellophones)
on the west coast of Africa about 3,000 years ago, and metal-tined lamellophones appeared in the Zambezi River valley around 1,300 years ago. Metal-tined...
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Marímbula (redirect from Marimba (lamellophone))
usually classified as part of the lamellophone family of musical instruments. Unlike typical African lamellophones, such as the mbira, used to produce...
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(company), a language-training provider Linguaphone (musical instrument) or lamellophone, a class of musical instruments Language lab, an audio-visual installation...
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Federation. Its most distinctive national instrument is the khomus, a lamellophone. The Yakut people are a large ethnic group in Sakha. They are known for...
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Jew's harp, amplified cactus, kouxian, dan moi, music box and mbira (lamellophone or thumb piano); blown idiophones, of which there are a very small number...
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Latin percussion is a family of percussion, membranophone, lamellophone and idiophone instruments used in Latin music. Trap drums Abakua and Arará drums...
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Jew's harp music (redirect from List of pieces which use a lamellophone)
songs that include or feature the Jew's harp or other resonance based lamellophones. Jew's harp music is Library of Congress Subject Heading M175.J4. Famous...
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a musical drum with no snares Tom (Ethiopian instrument), a plucked lamellophone thumb piano Tune-o-matic, a guitar bridge design Tom, Oklahoma, US Tom...
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The African lamellophone, thumb piano or mbira...
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The following is a list of players of the mbira, an African plucked lamellophone musical instrument. Tendayi Gahamadze Thomas Mapfumo Chartwell Dutiro...
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Guitaret (category Comb lamellophones)
The Guitaret is an electric lamellophone made by Hohner and invented by Ernst Zacharias, in 1963. Zacharias also invented similar instruments like the...
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Smaller electric pianos used short slivers of steel to produce the tone (a lamellophone with a keyboard & pickups). The earliest electric pianos were invented...
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Space Harp (category Comb lamellophones)
The space harp, also known as a frankiphone, is an electrified lamellophone invented by Phil Cohran as part of a musicological experiment exploring his...
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Persian musical instruments (section Lamellophones)
Persian musical instruments or Iranian musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories: classical, Western and folk. Most of Persian...
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(gourd rattle), Agidigbo (thumb piano that takes the shape of a plucked Lamellophone), Saworo (metal rattles for the arm and ankles, also used on the rim...
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Kontigi (West Africa) Krakebs (Algeria) Krar (Ethiopia) Kwitra (Algeria) Lamellophone Lesiba (Southern Africa) Litungu (Kenya) Lokanga bara (Madagascar) Malimbe...
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from Bantu (Kongo languages) marímbula – plucked musical instrument (lamellophone) of the Caribbean islands merengue (dance) – possibly from Fulani mererek...
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meaning "voice of the ancestors", which is an instrument related to many lamellophones ubiquitous throughout Africa. At independence, the policies of racial...
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Comb (category Comb lamellophones)
was the inspiration for the kazoo, a membranophone. The comb is also a lamellophone. Comb teeth have harmonic qualities of their own, determined by their...
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Kisanji (category Comb lamellophones)
Lamellophone instrument...
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Ilimba (category Comb lamellophones)
The ilimba is a lamellophone from Tanzania. It is a traditional instrument of the Gogo ethnic group and its most famous player in the 20th century was...
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New York: McGraw-Hill. Kubik, Gerhard (1998). Kalimba—Nsansi—Mbira. Lamellophone in Afrika. Berlin: Museum fur Volkerkunde. ISBN 3886094391. Laroche,...
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Tom (Ethiopian instrument) (category Comb lamellophones)
The tom is a plucked lamellophone thumb piano used in the traditional music of the Nuer and Anuak ethnic groups of western Ethiopia. The instruments is...
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amplifier. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of musical instruments, lamellophones are considered plucked idiophones, a category that includes various...
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part of the traditional mbira piece "Nhema Mussasa". The mbira is a lamellophone. The left hand plays the ostinato bass line while the right hand plays...
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Music box (category Comb lamellophones)
"The Blue Danube" (0:58) Polyphon metal disc (1890) Problems playing this file? See media help. A music box (American English) or musical box (British...
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accompaniment, though qachel may also refer to a small bell. The toom, a lamellophone, is used among the Nuer, Anuak, Majangir, Surma, and other Nilotic groups...
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infrequently than males who use it for short distance courtship. Jaw harp Lamellophone Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kubing. Hila, Antonio C (2006)...
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