Category:Musical instruments

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The main article for this category is Musical instrument.

A musical instrument is a device that has been modified or constructed with the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that somehow produces sound can serve as a musical instrument, but the expression is reserved generally to items that have that specific purpose.

[edit] See also

• List of musical instruments
• Category:Musicians by instrument

Subcategories

This category has the following 38 subcategories, out of 38 total.

Lists of musical instruments + Musicians by instrument A Aerophones Amplified instruments B Brass instruments C Chordophones Continuous pitch instruments Contrabass instruments Crystallophones Custom-made instruments D Musical instrument destruction E Early musical instruments

E cont. Electronic music instruments Experimental musical instruments F Fictional musical instruments Folk musical instruments Friction musical instruments G Gamelan I Idiophones Individual musical instruments Inventors of musical instruments K Keyboard instruments L Lost and extinct instruments M Marching band instruments Mechanical musical instruments

M cont. Membranophones Musical instrument makers Musical instrument manufacturing companies Musical instrument parts and accessories N Musical instruments by nationality O Organology P Percussion Percussion instruments Wikipedia requested photographs of musical instruments S String instruments W Wind-activated musical instruments Woodwind instruments µ Musical instrument stubs

Pages in category "Musical instruments"

The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. Updates to this list can occasionally be delayed for a few days.

Musical instrument Musical instrument classification List of musical instruments * Organology A Array system B Bass (instrument) Bumbulum C Change ringing software Claviola Contrabass

E Eclectic-method Eclecticism in art Electric instrument H Heinrich Christian Eisenbrandt Historically informed performance K Klaxophone M Mrdanga O Orchestral enhancement P Panharmonicon S Shorthand for orchestra instrumentation Signal instrument

S cont. Sordino Sound box String resonance (music) Strähle construction Symphonia T Music instrument technology Transposing instrument V Virtual Orchestra W Wind machine Z Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau

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