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A Musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound, and can somehow be controlled by a musician, can serve as a musical instrument. (See e.g. the hardart.) A Musical... more

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Classical guitar		Musical Performance Role	String instruments	Nylon string guitar	A classical guitar, also known as known as "nylon string guitar" or "Spanish guitar" (referring to its origin, not repertoire), is a musical instrument from the family of musical instruments called chordophone. The classical guitar is...
Classical guitar		Musical Performance Role	Guitar	Nylon string guitar
Clarinet		Musical Performance Role	Woodwind instrument		The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular type of trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a...
Cello		Musical Performance Role	String instruments		The violoncello, usually abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural celli (the c is , as in the ch in "checkers"so it is like "Chell-lo") is a bowed string instrument. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo...
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Double bass		Musical Performance Role	String instruments		The double bass (also known as the contrabass, string bass, upright bass, or bass) is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument used in the modern symphony orchestra. It is a standard member of the string section of the symphony...
Double bass		Musical Performance Role	Bowed string instruments
Horn					The horn (informally known also as the French horn) is a brass instrument descended from the natural horn that consists of about 12 feet (for a single horn in the key of F) of mostly conical tubing (like the tuba or euphonium), wrapped into a...
Harp		Musical Performance Role	String instruments		The harp is a stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicular to the soundboard. All harps have a neck, resonator and strings. Some, known as frame harps, also have a forepillar; those lacking the forepillar are...
Harmonica		Musical Performance Role			A harmonica is a free reed wind instrument. Tones or notes are made by blowing air into or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes (reed chambers) or multiple holes. The pressure caused by blowing or drawing air into the reed chambers...
Koto					The koto (琴 or 箏) is a traditional Japan stringed musical instrument derived from Chinese zither (Guzheng). The koto is the national instrument of Japan. Koto are about long and have 13 strings that are strung over 13 movable bridges along the...
Oboe			Woodwind instrument	Cor anglais	The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois", "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, as close as...
Trombone		Musical Performance Role	Brass instrument	Bass Trombone	The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, it is a lip-reed aerophone; sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips (embouchure) cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate. The trombone is...
Trumpet		Musical Performance Role	Brass		The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family, and produces a "bright" sound. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC. They are constructed of brass tubing bent twice...
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Tuba			Brass instrument		The tuba is the largest and lowest pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid...
Violin		Musical Performance Role	String instruments	Baroque violin	The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifth. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello. A violin is sometimes informally...
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Viola		Musical Performance Role	String instruments		The viola (French, alto; German Bratsche) is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello. The casual observer may mistake the viola for the violin because of their similarity in size,...
Tin whistle		Musical Performance Role	Fipple flutes		The tin whistle, also called the tinwhistle, whistle, pennywhistle or Irish whistle, is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It can be described as an end blown fipple flute, putting it in the same category as the flageolet, recorder, Native...
Piccolo		Musical Performance Role	Woodwind instrument		The piccolo is a small flute. Like the flute, the piccolo is normally pitched in the key of C, one octave above the concert flute (making it, effectively, a sopranino flute).It has been used in rock and roll. Music for the piccolo is written one...
Wagner tuba					The Wagner tuba is a comparatively rare brass instrument that combines elements of both the horn and the tuba. It was originally created for Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. Since then, other composers have written for it,...
Sampler					A sampler is an electronic music instrument closely related to a synthesizer. Instead of generating sounds from scratch, however, a sampler starts with multiple recordings (or “samples”) of different sounds, and then plays each back based on how the...
Bass clarinet		Musical Artist	Woodwind instrument		The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B♭ clarinet, it is usually pitched in B♭ (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B♭), but it plays notes an octave below...
Bass clarinet		Musical Performance Role	Woodwind instrument
Fife					A fife is a small, high-pitched, transverse flute that is similar to the piccolo, but louder and shriller due to its narrower bore. The fife originated in medieval Europe and is often used in military and marching band. Someone who plays the fife is...
Western concert flute					The term flute most commonly applies to the popular transverse side-blown musical instrument made of metal. The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. The flute is recognisable by its clean, pure sound. The most common variant is a...
Organum					An organum is any one of a number of musical instruments which were the forerunners of the organ. The name comes from the Latin organum, meaning any tool in general or any musical instrument in particular (or an organ of the body), which in turn...
Pate					A Pate is a Samoa percussion instrument. It is made from a hollowed-out log, and produces a distinctive and loud sound. it comes in different sizes.
Regal					The regal was a small late-medieval portable organ, furnished with beating reeds and having two bellows like a positive organ. In Germany, the name was also given to the reed stops (beating reeds) of a large organ, and more especially the vox humana...
Jug					The jug as a musical instrument reached its height of popularity in the 1920s, when jug band, such as Cannon's Jug Stompers were popular. The eponymous jug is just that: a jug (usually made of glass or stoneware) played with the mouth. With an...
Tama					The talking drum is a West Africa drum whose pitch can be regulated to the extent that it is said the drum "talks". The player puts the drum under one shoulder and beats the instrument with a stick. A talking drum player raises or lowers the pitch...
Babendil					The babendil is a single, narrow-rimmed Philippine gongused primary as the “timekeeper” of the Maguindanao kulintang ensemble. The babendil usually has a diameter of roughly one foot making it larger than the largest kulintang gong and comparable...
Dabakan					The dabakan is a single-headed Philippine drum, primarily used as a supportive instrument in the kulintang ensemble. Among the five main kulintang instruments, it is the only non-gong element of the Maguindanao ensemble. The dabakan is frequently...
Gandingan					The gandingan is a Philippine set of four, large hanging gongs used specifically by the Maguindanao as part of their kulintang ensemble. When integrated into the ensemble, it functions as a secondary melodic instrument after the main melodic...
Buccin					The buccin is a visually distinctive trombone popularized in military bands in France between 1810–1845 which subsequently faded into obscurity. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians devotes but two sentences to the buccin: “A form of...