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This work includes electrophones as a category of instrument classification
What is the “The Knight-Revision of Hornbostel-Sachs” ?
This string instrument is wind powered
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?
This "two" are the central figures of this article that explores socializing practices in the Andes
What are "the charango and the Sirena"?
This 10-string instrument used to be made with armadillo shell
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
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 composite chordophone has 21 strings and is more accurately classified as a bridged double harp lute
What is the kora?
This fiddle came to Amami from China
What is the sanshin?
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?
This instrument (name it) is classified as a ******* *** and it developed under Portuguese colonial rule?
What is the berimbao musical bow?
Robin Huw Bowen is a master player of this Irish instrument
What is the triple harp?
This tubular trumpet is native to Australia
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?
This less known Indian instrument structures the relationship between musicians and patrons
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 may be considered archives when they
What is they are receptacles of knowledge, cultural memory, and history?