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This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones and membranophones)
Welcome to our alphabetical list of musical instruments A-Z! Today, we’re covering everything that makes a beautiful melody and beat from accordion to zither and everything in between. We’ve listed all of the most-popular musical instruments around the world, as well as some lesser-known but equally important music makers for your review.
- Mesopotamian lyre. This imposing silver lyre was played in Mesopotamia (modern-day southern Iraq) over 4,000 years ago. Music was an important aspect of many celebratory and ritual occasions in ancient Mesopotamia.
- Medieval citole. This richly decorated instrument, dripping with carved foliage, has an interesting story. It was originally made between 1280 and 1330 as a citole, a medieval guitar-like instrument, usually with four strings.
- Ancient Egyptian harp. Harps like this highly decorated example were played at ancient Egyptian banquets – they're often shown in scenes covering the walls of tombs.
- Arabian lute. This Arabian lute (oud in Arabic) was made by the famous Iraqi luthier Fawzi Monshid of Basra in 1981. The cedar wood soundboard has decorative details in ebony, rosewood and bone and the belly is made of strips of north Indian rosewood.
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- Accordion. An accordion is an instrument that uses reeds and air to create sound. Reeds are thin strips of material that air passes over to vibrate, which in turn creates a sound.
- Conductor's Baton. In the 1820s, Louis Spohr introduced the conductor's baton. A baton, which is the French word for "stick," is used by conductors primarily to enlarge and enhance the manual and bodily movements associated with directing an ensemble of musicians.
- Bell. Bells may be categorized as idiophones, or instruments sounding by the vibration of resonant solid material, and more broadly as percussion instruments.
- Clarinet. The clarinet's predecessor was the chalumeau, the first true single reed instrument. Johann Christoph Denner, a famous German woodwind instrument maker of the Baroque era, is credited as the inventor of the clarinet.
- Wind Instrument
- String Instrument
- Percussion Instrument
- Electronic Instrument
- Other Instrument
- Ensemble
- Family
- Unclassified Instrument
akete (set of Nyabinghi drums) — Three-parts drumset (baandu, funde and kete) commonly used in Burru and Nyabinghi musics.bīn (Family of ancient Indian stick zither chordophones) — One of the two subfamilies of Indian chordophones, the North Indian stick zither used in classical Hindustani music has two (or more) larg...claviorganum (Fifteenth century organ harpsichord hybrid) — Popular in the fifteenth century, it was a combination of a pipe organ and harpsichord, often with two keyboards, one for the strings and...
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. A person who plays a musical instrument is known as an instrumentalist.
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Sep 7, 2024 · The principal types of such instruments, classified by the method of producing sound, are percussion, stringed, keyboard, wind, and electronic. Bone whistle, c. 10,000 bc; in the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford, Eng. Musical instruments are almost universal components of human culture: archaeology has revealed pipes and whistles in the Paleolithic ...
