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  2. List of musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    An assortment of musical instruments in an Istanbul music store. This is a list of musical instruments , including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)

  3. Country music - Wikipedia

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    Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.First produced in the 1920s, country music is primarily focused on singing stories about working-class and blue-collar American life.

  4. List of period instruments - Wikipedia

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    The clavichord is an example of a period instrument. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments".

  5. Banjo - Wikipedia

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    The Old Plantation, c. 1785–1795, the earliest known American painting to picture a banjo-like instrument, which shows a four-string instrument with its 4th (thumb) string shorter than the others; thought to depict a plantation in Beaufort County, South Carolina The oldest extant banjo, c. 1770–1777, from the Surinamese Creole culture.

  6. Appalachian music - Wikipedia

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    Early recorded country music (i.e., late 1920s and early 1930s) typically consisted of fiddle and banjo players and a predominant string band format, reflecting its Appalachian roots. Due in large part to the success of the Grand Ole Opry, the center of country music had shifted to Nashville by 1940.

  7. List of national instruments (music) - Wikipedia

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    The musical instrument, which has 6 wires and is the main instrument in traditional Iranian music, is produced by Mazzrab. 314.122-4: Ireland: Irish Harp (Cruit or Cláirseach) Polychord wire-strung harp with a fore-pillar 322.221: Ireland: Great Irish Warpipes Píob Mhór: In modern times this instrument is essentially identical to the Great ...

  8. Category : North American musical instruments by country

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  9. 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