Idiophone, the Glossary
An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity (electrophones).[1]
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62 relations: Acoustic membrane, Aeolodion, Aerophone, Đàn môi, Bell, Blown idiophone, Bow (music), Ceramic, Curt Sachs, Cymbal, Daxophone, Drum, Drum stick, Electronic musical instrument, Flexatone, Friction idiophone, Güiro, Glass, Glass harmonica, Glass harp, Hammer, Handpan, Hornbostel–Sachs, Ideophone, Jew's harp, Kouxian, Lamellophone, List of idiophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number, Lithophone, Maraca, Marimba, Mbira, Membranophone, Metal, Music box, Musical instrument, Musical instrument classification, Musical saw, Nail violin, Noisemaker, Orchestra, Percussion instrument, Percussion mallet, Percussion section, Phonograph, Pitched percussion instrument, Pizzicato, Plants used as musical instruments, Rattle (percussion instrument), Standing bell, ... Expand index (12 more) »
Acoustic membrane
An acoustic membrane is a thin layer that vibrates and is used in acoustics to produce or transfer sound, such as a drum, microphone, or loudspeaker.
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Aeolodion
The aeolodion or aeolodicon (also called in Germany Windharmonika) is an obsolete keyed wind instrument resembling the harmonium, its tone being produced from steel springs.
Aerophone
An aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes (which are respectively chordophones and membranophones), and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound (or idiophones).
Đàn môi
Derived from the mouth harp of the Hmong people, Đàn môi (in Đàn môi, "lip lute") is the Vietnamese name of a traditional musical instrument widely used in minority ethnic groups in Vietnam (including the Jrai "Rang Leh").
Bell
A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument.
Blown idiophone
A blown idiophone is one of the categories of musical instruments found in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification. Idiophone and blown idiophone are idiophones.
See Idiophone and Blown idiophone
Bow (music)
In music, a bow is a tensioned stick which has hair (usually horse-tail hair) coated in rosin (to facilitate friction) affixed to it.
Ceramic
A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature.
Curt Sachs
Curt Sachs (29 June 1881 – 5 February 1959) was a German musicologist.
Cymbal
A cymbal is a common percussion instrument. Idiophone and cymbal are idiophones.
Daxophone
The daxophone, invented by Hans Reichel, is an electric wooden experimental musical instrument of the friction idiophones category.
Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.
Drum stick
A drum stick (or drumstick) is a type of percussion mallet used particularly for playing snare drum, drum kit, and some other percussion instruments, and particularly for playing unpitched percussion.
Electronic musical instrument
An electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry.
See Idiophone and Electronic musical instrument
Flexatone
The flexatone or fleximetal is a modern percussion instrument (an indirectly struck idiophone) consisting of a small flexible metal sheet suspended in a wire frame ending in a handle. Idiophone and flexatone are idiophones.
Friction idiophone
Friction idiophones is designation 13 in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification.
See Idiophone and Friction idiophone
Güiro
The güiro is a percussion instrument consisting of an open-ended, hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side.
Glass
Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid.
Glass harmonica
The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica (derived from ἁρμονία, harmonia, the Greek word for harmony), is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction (instruments of this type are known as friction idiophones).
See Idiophone and Glass harmonica
Glass harp
A glass harp (also called musical glasses, singing glasses, angelic organ, verrillon or ghost fiddle) is a musical instrument made of upright wine glasses.
Hammer
A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object.
Handpan
A handpan from the first production run of Pantheon Steel. Handpan is a term for a group of musical instruments that are classified as a subset of the steelpan.
Hornbostel–Sachs
Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the italic in 1914.
See Idiophone and Hornbostel–Sachs
Ideophone
An ideophone is any word in a certain word class evoking ideas in sound imitation (onomatopoeia) to express an action, manner, or property.
Jew's harp
The Jew's harp, also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame.
Kouxian
Kouxian is a general Chinese term for any variety of jaw harp.
Lamellophone
A lamellophone (also lamellaphone or linguaphone) is a member of the family of musical instruments that makes its sound by a thin vibrating plate called a lamella or tongue, which is fixed at one end and has the other end free.
See Idiophone and Lamellophone
List of idiophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number
The Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification defines idiophones as all instruments in which sound is produced primarily by way of the instrument itself vibrating without the use of membranes or strings.
See Idiophone and List of idiophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number
Lithophone
A lithophone is a musical instrument consisting of a rock or pieces of rock which are struck to produce musical notes. Idiophone and lithophone are idiophones.
Maraca
A maraca, sometimes called shaker or chac-chac, is a rattle which appears in many genres of Caribbean and Latin music.
Marimba
The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets.
Mbira
Mbira are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe.
Membranophone
A membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane.
See Idiophone and Membranophone
A metal is a material that, when polished or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well.
Music box
A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or ''lamellae'') of a steel comb.
Musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds.
See Idiophone and Musical instrument
Musical instrument classification
In organology, the study of musical instruments, many methods of classifying instruments exist.
See Idiophone and Musical instrument classification
Musical saw
A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument.
Nail violin
The nail violin is a musical instrument which was invented by German violinist Johann Wilde in 1740. The instrument consists of a semicircular wooden soundboard, approximately by in size, with iron or brass nails of different lengths arranged to produce a chromatic scale when bowed.
Noisemaker
A noisemaker is something intended to make a loud noise, usually for fun.
Orchestra
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument.
See Idiophone and Percussion instrument
Percussion mallet
A percussion mallet or beater is an object used to strike or beat a percussion instrument to produce its sound.
See Idiophone and Percussion mallet
Percussion section
The percussion section is one of the main divisions of the orchestra and the concert band.
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Phonograph
A phonograph, later called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910), and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of recorded sound.
Pitched percussion instrument
A pitched percussion instrument (also known as a melodic or tuned percussion instrument) is a percussion instrument used to produce musical notes of one or more pitches, as opposed to an unpitched percussion instrument which is used to produce sounds of indefinite pitch.
See Idiophone and Pitched percussion instrument
Pizzicato
Pizzicato (translated as 'pinched', and sometimes roughly as 'plucked') is a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of a string instrument.
Plants used as musical instruments
Live plants have been used as musical instruments, especially in electronic music. Idiophone and plants used as musical instruments are idiophones.
See Idiophone and Plants used as musical instruments
Rattle (percussion instrument)
A rattle is a type of percussion instrument which produces a sound when shaken.
See Idiophone and Rattle (percussion instrument)
Standing bell
A standing bell or resting bell is an inverted bell, supported from below with the rim uppermost.
See Idiophone and Standing bell
Steel tongue drum
A steel tongue drum, tank drum, or hank drum is a round steel slit/tongue drum in the idiophone family originally fashioned from a propane cylinder.
See Idiophone and Steel tongue drum
String (music)
In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration.
See Idiophone and String (music)
String instrument
In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.
See Idiophone and String instrument
Struck idiophone
Struck idiophones is one of the categories of idiophones (that is, any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings or membranes) that are found in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification.
See Idiophone and Struck idiophone
Styrophone
A styrophone is an acoustic device made from expanded polystyrene foam (often referred to by the genericized trademark Styrofoam). Idiophone and styrophone are idiophones.
Triangle (musical instrument)
The triangle is a musical instrument in the percussion family, classified as an idiophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system.
See Idiophone and Triangle (musical instrument)
Verrophone
A verrophone ("glass-euphonium") is a musical instrument, invented in 1983 by Sascha Reckert, which, "uses tuned glass tubes,"Rossing, Thomas D. (2000).
Vibraphone
The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family.
Victor-Charles Mahillon
Victor-Charles Mahillon (March 10, 1841 in Brussels – June 17, 1924 in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France) was a Belgian musician, instrument builder and writer on musical topics.
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Whirly tube
The whirly tube, corrugaphone, or bloogle resonator, also sold as Free-Ka in the 1960s-1970s, is an experimental musical instrument which consists of a corrugated (ribbed) plastic tube or hose (hollow flexible cylinder), open at both ends and possibly wider at one end (bell), the thinner of which is rotated in a circle to play.
Wood
Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
Woodblock (instrument)
A woodblock (also spelled as two words, wood block) is a small slit drum made from a single piece of wood.
See Idiophone and Woodblock (instrument)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiophone
Also known as Idiophon, Idiophones, Idiophonic, Stamped idiophone.
, Steel tongue drum, String (music), String instrument, Struck idiophone, Styrophone, Triangle (musical instrument), Verrophone, Vibraphone, Victor-Charles Mahillon, Whirly tube, Wood, Woodblock (instrument).