musical instrument classification - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Cornett: Encyclopedia Ii - Cornett - Construction
The cornett takes the form of a tube, typically about 60 cm. long, made of ivory or wood with woodwind-style fingerholes. Usually the cor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chordophone: Encyclopedia - Chordophone
A chordophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating string or strings stretched between two poin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cornett: Encyclopedia - Cornett
The cornett or cornetto is an early wind instrument, dating from the Renaissance period. It was used in what are now called alta capellas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aerophone: Encyclopedia - Aerophone
An aerophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wind Instrument: Encyclopedia - Wind Instrument
A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube), in which a column of air is set into vib...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Drum: Encyclopedia - Drum
A drum is a musical instrument in the percussion family , technically classified as a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - String Instrument: Encyclopedia Ii - String Instrument - Types Of String Insturuments
String instruments are usually categorized by the technique used to produce sound. In order for a string instrument to produce sound, its...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - String Instrument: Encyclopedia Ii - String Instrument - Types Of String Instruments
String instruments are usually categorized by the technique used to produce sound. In order for a string instrument to produce sound, its...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wind Instrument: Encyclopedia Ii - Wind Instrument - Types Of Wind Instruments
Wind instruments fall into one of the following categories: Brass instruments Woodwind instruments Although brass instruments were orig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Drum: Encyclopedia Ii - Drum - Examples
Some examples of drums from different origins. Drum - Latin and Brazilian. bongo drum conga drums surdo steel drum - not a membranopho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hornbostel-sachs: Encyclopedia Ii - Hornbostel-sachs - The Skeleton Of The System
Formally, Hornbostel-Sachs is based on the Dewey Decimal classification. It has four top level classifications, with several levels below...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - String Instrument: Encyclopedia Ii - String Instrument - Contact Points Along The String
In bowed instruments, the bow is normally placed perpendicularly to the string, at a point half way between the end of the fingerboard an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - String Instrument: Encyclopedia Ii - String Instrument - Sound Amplification
String instrument - Through resonance. A vibrating string on its own makes only a very quiet sound, so string instruments are usually c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hornbostel-sachs: Encyclopedia Ii - Hornbostel-sachs - Suffixes And Composite Instruments
After the number described above, a number of suffixes may be appended. An 8 indicates that the instrument has a keyboard attached, while...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - String Instrument: Encyclopedia Ii - String Instrument - Contact Points Along The String
In bowed instruments, the bow is normally placed perpendicularly to the string, at a point half way between the end of the fingerboard an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cornett: Encyclopedia Ii - Cornett - Playing The Cornett
The cornett is generally agreed to be a difficult instrument to play. It embodies a design that survives in no modern instrument; that is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cornett: Encyclopedia Ii - Cornett - Music For The Cornett
Historically, the cornett was frequently used in consort with sackbutts (2 cornetts, 3 sackbutts), often to double a church choir. This w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - String Instrument: Encyclopedia Ii - String Instrument - Through Resonance
A vibrating string on its own makes only a very quiet sound, so string instruments are usually constructed in such a way that this sound ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hornbostel-sachs: Encyclopedia Ii - Hornbostel-sachs - The System Applied In Practice
Beyond these top two groups are several further levels of classification, so that the xylophone, for example, is in the group labelled 11...   » Read the article