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  2. Category:Improvised musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Musical instruments that are made or adapted from objects designed for other purposes. Pages in category "Improvised musical instruments" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.

  3. Musical improvisation - Wikipedia

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    Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians. [1]

  4. Experimental musical instrument - Wikipedia

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    Iner Souster (born in 1971) is a builder of experimental musical instruments, visual artist, musician, fauxbot designer and film maker who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Souster builds most of his instruments from trash, found, and salvaged materials. Some of his instruments are one-string string instruments, or thumb pianos. One of his ...

  5. Hang (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The Hang uses some of the same basic physical principles as a steelpan, but modified in such a way as to act as a Helmholtz resonator. [7] The creation of the Hang was the result of many years of research on the steelpan and other instruments. [8]

  6. Santoor - Wikipedia

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    In Kashmir the santoor was used to accompany folk music. It is played in a style of music known as the Sufiana Mausiqi. Some researchers slot it as an improvised version of a primitive instrument played in the Mesopotamian times (1600–900 B.C.) [3] Sufi mystics used it as an accompaniment to their hymns.

  7. Washboard (musical instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The frottoir, also called a Zydeco rub-board, is a mid-20th century invention designed specifically for Zydeco music. It is one of the few musical instruments invented entirely in the United States and represents a distillation of the washboard into essential elements (percussive surface with shoulder straps).

  8. Koto (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    Some instruments may have tuning pins (like a piano) installed, to make tuning easier. The makura ito, the silk thread used in the instrument, is a pivotal part of its construction. This feature was not seen on the speculated nobility-style instruments because they used a more tension of theirs and valued the relict nature of their instruments.

  9. Washtub bass - Wikipedia

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    A small washtub bass being played. The washtub bass, or gutbucket, is a stringed instrument used in American folk music that uses a metal washtub as a resonator. Although it is possible for a washtub bass to have four or more strings and tuning pegs, traditional washtub basses have a single string whose pitch is adjusted by pushing or pulling on a staff or stick to change the tension.