Music instruments

Music instruments

Devices constructed or adapted for the purpose of making musical sounds.

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tambourine

Music; Music instruments

A percussion instrument resembling a shallow drum with small metal disks in slots around the edge, played by being shaken or hit with the hand.

glockenspiel

Music; Music instruments

A musical percussion instrument having a set of tuned metal pieces mounted in a frame and struck with small hammers.

trombone

Music; Music instruments

A large brass wind instrument with straight tubing in three sections, ending in a bell over the player's left shoulder, different fundamental notes being made using a forward-pointing extendable ...

horn

Music; Music instruments

A wind instrument, conical in shape or wound into a spiral, originally made from an animal horn (now typically brass) and played by lip vibration.

clonewheel

Music; Music instruments

The name of an electronic or digital instrument which recreates or imitates the sound of a tonewheel-based Hammond organ.

Strumento musicale ad arco e corde della famiglia dei liuti di sonorita` piu` grave della viola. L`accordature e` giusto un` ottava inferiore di quella della viola. Il violoncello legge in chiave di ...

Anthropomorphic harp

Music; Music instruments

Linked to the Colonial past of Zaire, which is now Democratic Republic of Congo, this instrument is attributed to Mangbetu people. It is an arched harp made of twisted copper wire, with a geometric, ...