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Music Resources: Musical Instruments

Musical Instruments Resources

Here are some other resources on musical instruments.  Please also see the "Ethnomusicology/World Music" and "Musicology/Music History" sections.

Aerophones

"Aerophone: Sound produced by vibrating air, caused by breath or wind, within a column or tube. Examples include shawms, clarinets, flutes, pipes, trumpets, and horns."--Wesleyan University Virtual Instrument Museum
 

Chordophones

"Chordophone: Sound produced by a vibrating string or cord under tension. Usually acoustically enhanced in conjunction with a resonating chamber of air. Examples include fiddles, zithers, psalteries, musical bows, harps, and lutes."--Wesleyan University Virtual Instrument Museum

Idiophones

"Idiophone: Sound produced by vibrating a solid material which is free of tension. Examples include shakers, scrapers, wood blocks, cymbals, gongs, and xylophones. "--Wesleyan University Virtual Instrument Museum
 

Membranophones

"Membranophone: Sound produced by a vibrating skin or vellum stretched over an opening. Examples include all drums, regardless of shape, that employ a tensioned membrane."--Wesleyan University Virtual Instrument Museum

 

From Ngoni Lute to Kayamba Rattle: African Musical Instruments (by Bernard Musoni, 2010)

Theremin

Theremin - Clara Rockmore play "The Swan" (Saint-Saëns)

Sanza (Lamellophone)

Musical Spoons (Canada)

Thunder Sheet

Ankle Bells

Suzu

Musical Saw

Maracas

Xylophone

Balafon

Gankogui

Gangsa Kantilan

Ghatam

Steel Pan (Cello)

Tawa-tawa

Tama Talking Drum

Bulup or Ngeende

Atwreshie

Cuíca

Timpani

Bongos

The Voice

INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC INSTRUMENTS

Electric Keyboard

Synthesizer (Moog)

Guitars for Everybody - Part III: "Acousticism" 4/6/2011