Musical instruments Musical instruments The acoustic bass guitar is an acoustic string instrument based on the configuration of the electric bass pioneered by Leo Fender's electric Fender Precision Bass. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acoustic bass guitar"
An acoustic instrument is an musical instrument which does not produce sound using electronics, as does an electronic musical instrument. Electric instruments include both electronic instruments and electrically amplified acoustic instruments. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acoustic instrument"
An aeolian harp (or æolian harp or wind harp) is a musical instrument that is "played" by the wind. It is named for Aeolus, the ancient Greek god of the wind. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aeolian harp"
An aerophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes, and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound. It is one of the four main classes (class 4) of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aerophone"
The AGO pedalboard is a specification for the pedalboard on a pipe organ. It is part of the organ console specification promulgated by the American Guild of Organists. The specification calls for a pedalboard of 32 pedals, C-g', in a concave radiating pattern. That is, the fronts of the pedals (farthest from the organ console) are closer together than the backs, and the leftmost and rightmost pedals are elevated somewhat compared to the pedals in the center. The lengths of the pedals are specified, as is the length of the elevated section of the black notes, the height by which the black notes rise above the white notes, and the profile of the upper surface of the pedals. The specification is similar to the British RCO Pedalboard of the Royal College of Organists. ...more on Wikipedia about "AGO pedalboard"
Gamelan angklung (anklung) is a style of gamelan ensemble found primarily in Bali, Indonesia. Angklung is also the name of a bamboo musical instrument, popular throughout Southeast Asia, from which the ensemble gets its name but only occasionally employs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Angklung"
The archlute, a European plucked string instrument was developed soon after 1600 as a compromise between the very large theorbo, the size and re-entrant tuning of which made for difficuties in the performance of solo music, and the Renaissance tenor lute, which lacked the double bass notes of the theorbo. Essentially a tenor lute with the theorbo's neck extension appended, the archlute lacked the power in the tenor and the bass that the theorbo's large body and string length provided. The archlute then, was used as a solo instrument for the first three-quarters of the 17th century, but is rarely mentioned as a continuo instrument in this period, the theorbo being the lute class instrument with this role. ...more on Wikipedia about "Archlute" http://www.shortopedia.com - forget the rest. shortopedia
Henri Arnault de Zwolle (ca.1400 - 1466) was employed as a physician and an astronomer to Philip III, Duke of Burgundy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arnault de Zwolle"
The asor (Hebr. for "ten") was a musical instrument "of ten strings" mentioned in the Bible, about which authors are not agreed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Asor"
The authentic performance movement is an effort on the part of musicians and scholars to perform works of classical music in ways similar to how they were performed when they were originally written. The movement had its beginnings in the performance of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music, but subsequently came to incorporate the Classical and even Romantic eras as well. The two methods adopted by authentic performance artists have been to use historically appropriate instruments and to rely on written evidence from the past to gain insight into how the works were originally played. ...more on Wikipedia about "Authentic performance"
The balafon is a pentatonic or heptatonic xylophone of West Africa. The Susu and Malinké people of Guinea are closely associated with it. Famous balafon players include El Hadj Djeli Sory Kouyaté and, early in his career, superstar Mory Kanté. ...more on Wikipedia about "Balafon"
* A "banjolin" is a type of mandolin popularized in the 1920's. It is tuned and played the same as a mandolin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Banjolin"
A "lip-vibrated aerophone," the baroque trumpet is a musical instrument in the brass family (Smithers 1988). A baroque trumpet is an original instrument used in the 16th through 18th centuries, or a modern replica of an original instrument. Modern reproductions include both natural trumpets and the slightly embellished vented trumpets (Barclay 1998). ...more on Wikipedia about "Baroque trumpet"
A barrel organ is a mechanical musical instrument made of a series of pipes, and bellows, like any other traditional organ, and of a cylinder studded with staples or bridges or pins corresponding in their placement to a particular tune. While the cylinders are called barrels, they are usually much smaller than the barrels used as storage containers for several centuries. Usually made of finely crafted metal, the organ barrels had to be extremely sturdy in order to keep their precise alignment over the years, since they played the same programming role as piano rolls and had to deal with more mechanical stress given the greater number of rods and levers involved. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barrel organ"
There are a range of musical instruments that can be collectively be regarded as bass instruments. They belong to different families of instruments and can cover a wide range of musical roles, often going well beyond simply providing a rhythmic and harmonic foundation for other instruments to build on. What they have in common is that they are the lowest tuned instruments of their respective families. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bass (instrument)"
The Bassanelli was a Medieval and/or Renaissance woodwind instrument which was described in 1619 by Michael Praetorius in his Syntagma Musicum thusly: ...more on Wikipedia about "Bassanelli"
A boatswain's pipe or boatswain's call (pronounced "Bosun") is a whistle that is made of a tube(called the barrel) that directs air over a grape-sized metal sphere with a hole cut in the top. The player’s hand holds over the sounding chamber and causes a change in the pitch ,by changing the air path of leaving air, by opening and closing the hand. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boatswain's pipe"
A bombard is a type of medieval cannon or mortar, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls. The modern term bombardment derives from this. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bombard"
A bumbulum, or bombulum, was a fabulous musical instrument described in an apocryphal letter of St. Jerome to Dardanus I and illustrated in a series of illuminated manuscripts of the 10th to the 11th century, together with other instruments described in the same letter. These are the Psalter of Emmeran, 10th century, described by Martin Gerbert, who gives a few illustrations from it; the Cotton manuscript of Tiberius C. VI. in the British Museum, 11th century; the famous Boulogne Psalter, Ar), 1000; and the Psalter of Angers, 9th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bumbulum"
A carillon is a musical instrument composed of at least 23 cup-shaped bells played from a keyboard using fists and feet. Carillon bells are made of bell bronze, approximately 78% copper and 22% tin. Carillons are normally housed in towers ( campaniles). The carillon has the widest dynamic range of any mechanical (non-electric) musical instrument. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carillon"
The celesta ( IPA )) or celeste ( ) is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. The keys are connected to hammers which strike a graduated set of metal (usually steel) plates suspended over wooden resonators. There is a pedal to sustain or dampen the sound. ...more on Wikipedia about "Celesta"
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The 'cello (often formally referred to as the violoncello) is a stringed instrument and a member of the violin family. A cello player is called a cellist. Cellists are often gregarious by nature, and will insist that more cellos (or celli, as they are familiarly called) are better, up to at least twelve . ...more on Wikipedia about "Cello"
Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a series of mathematical patterns called "changes", without attempting to ring a conventional tune. It originated in England and remains most popular there today, as well as in countries around the world with British influence. On continental Europe, by contrast, a different form of campanology, carillon ringing (which does aim at recognizable melodies), is much more popular. Like carillons, change-ringing bells are often found in church towers; but the two methods are entirely different not only in their musical aims but also in their physical set-ups. A carillon consists of a large number of bells which are struck by hammers all tied in to a central framework so that one carilloneur can control them all; change ringing, by contrast, uses a smaller number of bells and typically requires a ringer for each bell. ...more on Wikipedia about "Change ringing"
(Chordophone) A corpophones is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating string or strings stretched between two points. It is one of the four main divisions of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chordophone"
Citole, also spelled Sytole, Cytiole, Gytolle, etc. (probably a French diminutive form of cithara, and not from Latin cista, a box), an archaic musical instrument of which the exact form is uncertain. It is generally shown as a four-string instrument, with a body generally referred to as "holly-leaf" shaped. There is a surviving instrument from around 1300 from Warwick Castle which is now in the British Museum. It is frequently mentioned by poetical writers of the 13th to the 15th centuries, and is found in Wycliffes Bible (1360) in 2 Samuel vi. 5, Harpis and sitols and tympane. The Authorized Version has psaltiries, and the Vulgate lyrae. It has been supposed to be another name for the psaltery, a box-shaped instrument often seen in the illuminated missals of the middle ages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Citole"
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