List of musical instruments

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The following is a list of musical instruments, categorized by section. Please add to List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number also. See also List of instruments by nationality and

Wind instruments

See also: List of woodwind instruments

Flutes

Single reed instruments

Double reed instruments

Bagpipes (single and double reed)

Brass instruments

(not necessarily made from brass)

Free reed instruments

Voice

Free aerophones

String instruments

Main article: List of string instruments

Percussion instruments

See also: List of percussion instruments

Drums

Other Percussion Instruments

Electronic instruments

Keyboard instruments

Other

External links

Oddmusic A website dedicated to unique, odd, ethnic, experimental and unusual musical instruments and resources.



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A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. In principle anything that, produces sound, and can somehow be controlled by a person playing it, can serve as a musical instrument.
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At various times, and in various different cultures, various schemes of musical instrument classification have been used.

The most commonly used system in use in the west today divides instruments into string instruments, wind instruments and percussion instruments.
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Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification  

Idiophone | Membranophone | Chordophone | Aerophone | Electrophone

List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number
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Folk music is one of the major divisions of music. There are many styles of folk music, all of which can be classified into various traditions, generally based around some combination of ethnic, racial, religious, tribal, political or geographic boundaries.
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Main article: Woodwind instrument.

Flutes

Open

Side-blown

  • Bansuri (India)
  • Dizi (China)
  • Flute
  • Fife
  • Piccolo

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The duduk (pronounced [duˈduk]) is a traditional woodwind instrument of Armenian origins.[1][2]
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didgeridoo (or didjeridu) is a wind instrument of the Indigenous Australians of northern Australia. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or "drone pipe". Musicologists classify it as an aerophone.
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Hocchiku (, also hochiku or hotchiku) is a Japanese end-blown flute, crafted from root sections of bamboo. After cleaning and sanding, the heavy root end of the bamboo stalk reveals many small circular knots where the roots formerly joined the stalk.
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hun is a Korean ocarina made of baked clay or ceramic. It is globular shape, with a blowing hole on top and several finger holes. It is used primarily in court music ensembles, although in the late 20th century some contemporary Korean composers began to use it in their
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Traditional instruments of the Southern Philippines
Maguindanao Kulintang Ensemble
Kulintang - Agung - Gandingan - Babendil - Dabakan
Other non-ensemble instruments
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The khloy is a vertical duct flute from Cambodia. It is generally made of bamboo, though instruments are also made from plastic. The khloy is very similar to the Thai khlui, though there are differences in tuning between the two instruments.
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The khlui (ขลุ่ย) is a vertical duct flute from Thailand. It is generally made of bamboo, though instruments are also made from hardwood or plastic.
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The koudi (Chinese: ; pinyin: kǒudí; also spelled kou di) is a very small Chinese flute made from bamboo. It was invented in 1971 by the late dizi master Yu Xun Fa.

One of the most famous compositions for koudi is YunQue.
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The nose flute is a popular musical instrument played in Polynesia and the Pacific Rim countries. Other versions are found in Africa, China and India.

Hawaii

'Ohe hano ihu in Hawaiian means "bamboo, breath, nose.
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The ocarina (IPA: /ɒkəˈriːnə/) is an ancient flute-like wind instrument.[1] While several variations exist, an ocarina is typified by an oval-shaped enclosed space with four to twelve finger
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The paixiao (traditional: ; simplified: ; pinyin: páixiāo; also pái xiāo, pai-hsiao) is an ancient Chinese wind instrument, a form of pan pipes.
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palendag is a type of Philippine bamboo flute, the largest one used by the Maguindanaon. A lip-valley flute, it is considered the hardest of the three bamboo flutes (the others being the tumpong and the suling) to use because of the way one must shape one's lips against its end to
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pan flute (also known as panpipes) is an ancient musical instrument based on the principle of the stopped pipe, consisting usually of ten or more pipes of gradually increasing length (and, at times, girth).
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palendag is a type of Philippine bamboo flute, the largest one used by the Maguindanaon. A lip-valley flute, it is considered the hardest of the three bamboo flutes (the others being the tumpong and the suling) to use because of the way one must shape one's lips against its end to
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The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes — whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle and ocarina.
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The ryūteki (kanji: ; hiragana: りゅうてき; literally "dragon flute") is a Japanese transverse flute made of bamboo. It is used in gagaku, the Shinto classical music associated with Japan's imperial court.
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The shakuhachi (尺八 ( しゃくはち )
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Shinobue (kanji: ; also called takebue) is a Japanese transverse flute that has a high-pitched sound. It is found in hayashi and nagauta ensembles, and plays important roles in noh and kabuki theatre music.
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A slide whistle (variously known as a swanee whistle, piston flute or less commonly jazz flute) is a wind instrument consisting of a fipple like a recorder's and a tube with a piston in it.
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A suling is an Indonesian/Philippine flute made out of bamboo. It is used in gamelan ensembles.

Depending on the regional genre, a suling can be tuned into different scales.
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The tin whistle, also called the tinwhistle, whistle, pennywhistle, or Irish whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. The Irish words for the instrument are feadóg ('whistle' or 'flute') or feadóg stáin ('tin whistle');
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The Tonette is a small, end-blown flute made of plastic, which was once popular in American elementary music education. It has largely been superseded by the recorder. The range of the instrument is from middle C (c4) to d4. It is also known as a song flute.
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Traditional instruments of the Southern Philippines
Maguindanao Kulintang Ensemble
Kulintang - Agung - Gandingan - Babendil - Dabakan
Other non-ensemble instruments
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The vertical flute is a special variation of the standard flute, or, more specifically, the concert flute. The vertical flute is specially designed to be played in an upright position.
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A washint is an Ethiopian end-blown flute with four finger holes. The instrument is made of wood or cane. It is similar to the foodhir and the ney.
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