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Expands the H&S classification by adding electrophones
What is the “The Knight-Revision of Hornbostel-Sachs” ?
Wind activates this instrument's sound
What is the aeolian harp?
Free aerophones are subdivided into these 3 categories
What are displacement free aerophones, interruptive freed aerophones & plosive aerophones?
This reptile is sometimes used to make string instruments
What is a snake?
His system was informed by the Natya Shastraan an Indian treatise said to have been written in 200 BCE
What is Mahillon?
The spirit of "this" mythical figure gives "this" instrument the power of love in Turino's article
What are the Sirena & charango?
Armadillo shell was used for the body of this instrument
What is the charango?
This is an example of a non-idiophonic interruptive whirling aerophone
What is a bullroarer?
This animal's hair is used to make bows
What is a horse?
fieldwork and other methods of observation are employed to gather detailed musical, ethnographic, and synchronic data for cultures who rely on this type of tradition
What is oral tradition?
This bridged double harp lute has 21 strings
What is the kora?
The sanshin is played in this island
Where is Amami?
Reeds are subdivided into 3 categories
What are oboes, clarinets, and reed pipes with free reeds?
The neck of this violin-sized bow lute from India is made out of
What is bamboo?
This country conceived a system which divides instruments based on natural elements, as sources of sound and considered seasons and the relationship between matter and sprit
Where is China?
Graham's Brazilian berimbau is often accompanied by this membranophone
What is the atabaque?
This Welsch instrument has three rows of strings
What is the triple harp?
Carved hollow by termites, mimics dingos & kangaroos
What is the didjeridoo?
The large body of this African string instrument is made out of this
What is a (large globular) gourd?
Some instruments can be viewed as non-human living subjects because they are said to possess this
What is a spirit or a soul?
There is something epic about this instrument in Knight (2000)
What is the bana?
The Chinese Qin is classified as . . .
What is a zither?
This is an example of a vessel fipple flute, often made out of clay
What is the ocarina?
The virtual version of this instrument is an object of much debate
What is the guitar?
Instruments that embody forms of cultural knowledge, memory, and history are considered
What are archives?
This instrument is simultaneously ethnically White and Dominican
What is the accordion?
The saung-gauk is an ancient instrument from this country
Where is Burma?
the pop gun, botija, ghatam & udu are examples of
What are plosive aerophones?
Giant volcanic reeds are used to make
what are Otavalan transverse flutes?
Although not sentient, ontological organologists considered instruments ...
What are non-human living subjects?
The fontonfrom and the atumpan are featured in his documentary
Who is Mantle Hood?
The harp is played upside down in this Peruvian dance
What is baile de las tijeras? Que es Scissors dance?
The suona became "this" instrument in the largest Caribbean island
What is the corneta china?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
This Asante talking drum is carved out wood from this tree
What is the tweneboa tree or cedar tree?
Ashanti drummers use the atumpan for three modalities
What are speech, signal and dance mode?
Racy tells us that this instrument may be just too idiosyncratic to lend itself to the markedly different sound of its urban variant
What's the mijwiz?
She is one of the few jazz harpists
Who is Alicia Coltrane?
This double clarinet is played in the Arab Levant
What is the mijwiz?
Sonevytsky says this instrument is made out of pure sleek, young, sexy, and predominantly masculine American-ness
What is the electric guitar?
This author concludes that instruments are not simply tools but "historical artifacts and sound-making objects whose "social life" is re-created through and in acts of musical performance.
Who is Maria Sonevytsky?