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  2. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    The instrument name comes from the category plasmaphones, in which the sound comes from plasma. unpitched percussion: Pyrophone: plasmaphone: Uses explosions to produce sound in pipes. Weak similarity to pipe organ or calliope (which run air/steam through pipes, but producing sound through the friction of air on ducts). pitched percussion ...

  3. List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number

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    A number of instruments have been invented, designed, and made, that make sound from matter in its liquid state. This class of instruments is called hydraulophones . Hydraulophones use an incompressible fluid, such as water, as the initial sound-producing medium, and they may also use the hydraulic fluid as a user-interface.

  4. List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 321.314

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    This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.314 under that system. These instruments may be known as spike frame lutes. 3: Instruments in which sound is produced by one or more vibrating strings (chordophones, string instruments).

  5. Shorthand for orchestra instrumentation - Wikipedia

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    The shorthand for the instrumentation of a symphony orchestra (and other similar ensembles) is used to outline which and how many instruments, especially wind instruments, are called for in a given piece of music. The shorthand is ordered in the same fashion as the parts of the individual instruments in the score (when read from top to bottom).

  6. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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    Long String Instrument, (by Ellen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode) Magnetic resonance piano , (strings activated by electromagnetic fields) Stringed instruments with keyboards

  7. Category:Lists of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Lists of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number (40 P) P. Lists of percussion instruments (1 C, 15 P) T. ... List of musical instruments of Cameroon;

  8. Family of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification, such as the Hornbostel-Sachs system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families. Some commonly recognized families are: Strings family; Woodwind family ...

  9. List of chordophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number - Wikipedia

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    311.111 Mono-idiochord musical bows - Containing one string only 311.112 Poly-idiochord musical bows or harp-bows - Containing several strings that pass over some type of bridge. 311.12 Heterochord musical bows - The string is of separate material from the bearer. 311.121 Mono-heterochord musical bows - The bow has one heterochord string only.