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  2. Triangle (musical instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The triangle is a musical instrument in the percussion family, classified as an idiophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system. Triangles are made from a variety of metals including aluminum, beryllium copper, brass, bronze, iron, and steel.

  3. Alan Abel (musician) - Wikipedia

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    Alan Abel (December 6, 1928 – April 25, 2020) was an American percussionist, music educator, and inventor of musical instruments.He was the associate principal percussionist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1959 until his retirement in 1997.

  4. Johann Nepomuk Maelzel - Wikipedia

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    After several years of study and experiment, he produced an orchestrion instrument, which was publicly exhibited, and afterward sold for 3,000 florins. In 1804, he invented the panharmonicon, an automaton able to play the musical instruments of a military band, powered by bellows and directed by revolving cylinders storing the notes. [1]

  5. Metronome - Wikipedia

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    In 1815, German inventor Johann Maelzel patented a mechanical, wind-up metronome as a tool for musicians, under the title "Instrument/Machine for the Improvement of all Musical Performance, called Metronome". [1] In the 20th century, electronic metronomes and software metronomes were invented.

  6. Tuba - Wikipedia

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    The original Wieprecht and Moritz instrument used five valves of the Berlinerpumpen type that was the forerunner of the modern piston valve. The first tenor tuba was invented in 1838 by Moritz's son Carl Wilhelm Moritz.

  7. Vibraslap - Wikipedia

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    I found out that it was an animal skull that you would strike, and the sound would come from the teeth-rattling in the loose sockets. So I took that concept and invented the Vibraslap, which was my first patent." [6] The vibraslap was the first patent granted to the instrument manufacturing company Latin Percussion. [7

  8. Musical instrument - Wikipedia

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    Despite the influences of Greece and Rome, most musical instruments in Europe during the Middles Ages came from Asia. The lyre is the only musical instrument that may have been invented in Europe until this period. [77] Stringed instruments were prominent in Middle Age Europe.

  9. Trigonon - Wikipedia

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    Woman with psaltērion or trigonon in red-figure pottery from Apulia , ca. 320–310 BC C. Anzi (British Museum). A trigonon (trígōnon, from Greek "τρίγωνον", "triangle") is a small triangular ancient Greek harp occasionally used by the ancient Greeks and probably derived from Assyria or Egypt.