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Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first...

medieval musical instruments Fictional music#Fictional musical instruments List of folk music traditions List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number...

The Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification groups all instruments in which sound is produced primarily through a vibrating membrane...

The Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification defines idiophones as all instruments in which sound is produced primarily by way of the...

This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 314.122 under that system (box zithers)...

is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 111 under that system. These instruments are...

It is one of the five main divisions of instruments in the Hornbostel–Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification. Hornbostel–Sachs divides chordophones...

in 1914. Hornbostel and Sachs used most of Mahillon's system, but replaced the term autophone with idiophone. The original Hornbostel–Sachs system classified...

category 12 in the Hornbostel–Sachs system for classifying musical instruments, plucked idiophones. There are two main categories of plucked idiophones...

or a plectrum. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, the term refers to a larger family of similarly shaped instruments that also includes the...

most widely used classification system for musical instruments, Hornbostel–Sachs, takes this approach. Musical usage, in particular the traditional division...

below it. This number indicates the instrument's classification within the Hornbostel-Sachs system (H-S), which organizes instruments numerically based...

music recordings of many genres across the world. Almost all membranophones are drums and percussion instruments. The Hornbostel-Sachs number is given after...

lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in...

sound table (in the Hornbostel–Sachs system). The strings are attached to pegs or posts at the end of the neck, which have some type of turning mechanism...

series of condensations and rarefications by various means." Aerophones are one of the four main classes of instruments in the original Hornbostel–Sachs system...

produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, flutes are edge-blown aerophones. A musician...

harps is a category in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system for musical instruments, a type of harp. The instrument may also be called bow harp...

Tanzania von Hornbostel, Erich M.; Sachs, Curt (March 1961). "Classification of Musical Instruments: Translated from the Original German by Anthony Baines...

instruments). An electric instrument modeled on the kora (but made primarily of metal) called the gravikord was invented in the late 20th century by instrument...