Organology

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Aerophone

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the air itself is the vibrator in the primary sense; usually called wind instruments or air instruments; Sub-classes: 1. Straight/Plain tubes and pipes, 2. Reeds: clarinet (single-reed), oboe (double-reed)+, Free; through the sound of agency of wind

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Bamboo

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Banjo

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Brass

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Celeste

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Chinese Classification

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Chordophone

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instruments w/ strings stretched between fixed points; strings may be struck with sticks, plucked with the bare fingers or a plectron, bowed or sounded by wind; has 4 fundamental types: zither, lute, lyre, and harp

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Clarinet

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Earth (pottery)

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Eight Sounds (elements/materials)

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Free Aerophone

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air and wind but air no enclosed in tube and pipe

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Gourd

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Guitar

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Harp

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strings are slanted instead of being horizontal; is the only instrument in which the plane of the strings is vertical, not parallel, to the soundboard; the strings are attached to the soundboard, but run vertically away from it, and not along it

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Harpschord

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Hornbostel, Erich von

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Father of ethnomusicology

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Idiophone

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substance of the instrument itself, owing to its solidity and elasticity, yields the sounds, without requiring stretch membranes of strings; extensions of striking or clapping sounds or stamping feet. Ex: cymbals; struck, clap, stamp, scrape, pluck, rubbed/friction

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Lute

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is composed of a body, and of a neck, which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the string(s) beyond the body
- has a neck along which the strings travel

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Lyre

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has a body with a yoke in place of a neck (two arms projecting upward, upper ends connected by crossbar), strings are stretched over soundboard and fastened at the top of a crossbar (plucked or bowed)

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Mandolin

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Membranophone

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sound is excited by membranes tightly stretched over an opening, most are drums; classified features: material, shape, skin, fastening of the skins, playing position, and manner of playing

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Metal

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Monogenetic

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Oboe

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Organ

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Organology

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implement tools and utensils; the study of the structure and function

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Pa Yin

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Percussion

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Polygenetic

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Reed(s)

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clarinet (single-reed), oboe (double-reed)

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Sachs, Curt

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Silk

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Skin

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tone

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trings

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Synthesizer

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Wood

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Woodwinds

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Zither

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a zither has no neck or yoke; strings are stretched between two ends of a body, w/ or w/o a resonator; ex: stick, tube, board, and long zither