Glossary of Musical Instruments & Styles
- Antara - term used by the Quechua people of Peru for the Andean panpipes (of clay).
- Atabal - cylindrical double-headed bass drum of the Basque region; wider than tall.
- Atabaque - general term for a conical single-headed drum of Brazil; usually played in threes, each of different size.
- Aud - Egyptian lute (see ud).
- Baglama - long-necked turkish lute, about 1m, member of the saz family.
- Balafon - African xylophone: set of three: bass, mid range and high one for soloing.
- Balalaika - lute-type; triangle shape; national instrument of Russia.
- Bamboo xylophone - (Papua New Guinea) - pair of large bamboo xylophones erected on ladders, beaten with rubber flipflops (sandals) or thongs.
- Bandola - modern lute of Colombia; tear-drop shape, flat or concave back.
- Bandoneon - square-built button accordion; used in Argentinian tango.
- Bandura - type of psaltery found in the Ukraine; short neck, oval, flat body; held vertically.
- Bandurria - small 12 string mandolin type instrument with a very short wide neck, popular in Spain.
- Bata drums - set of double-headed drums.
- Bata (Afican) - set of three drums: the 'iyailu' or "mother drum", a talking drum; the 'emele abo' is the second drum, smaller and higher pitched; the 'omele' is the base of the set and consists of 3 or 4 small drums tied together, and plays steady grooves.
- Bayan - chromatic accordian of Russia and Belorussia, with button keyboard.
- Bawoo - Chinese wind instrument; bamboo tube with rectangular hole carved in side near closed end, with reed fastened across; finger and thumb holes.
- Biniou - Breton bagpipe with single drone, pitched an octave higher than usual.
- Bodhran - single-headed frame drum of Ireland; membrane, of animal skin, usually nailed to frame; hand-held using criss-cross system of cord, wire or sticks over open end.
- Bombarde - Breton shawm, usually pitched in Bb, sometimes C. Traditionally played as a duet with the Biniou.
- Bombo - large sheepskin drum.
- Bombo (2) - One of at least 45 Aboriginal words for didjeridu
- Bouzouki - Greek long necked lute; 3 or 4 double courses of metal strings.
- Caja - frame drum, sometimes with snare, of Spain and the New World.
- Cajon - Cuban box drum, made from a wooden box.
- Calabash - dried hollow shell of a gourd, used as a rattle.
- Campana - ball.
- Celtic folk harp - small instrument of 24 to 34 strings.
- Charango - ten string instrument, made from the shell of an armadillo; an Amerindian version of the imported European mandolin; found in an Andean region.
- Cheng - 1) half tube plucked zither of the Han chinese; 2) chinese gong.
- Choquella - predecessor of the kena, but bigger.
- Chordophone - class of instruments compreising strings stretched between fixed points, including: zithers, lute types (lute, violin, guitar, etc), harp types.
- Cittern - small wire-strung plucked instrument; played with a plectrum; popular from renaissance to baroque times, modern citterns are much bigger, and more like mandolins in shape.
- Clarsach - Scottish folk harp, 25 to 34 strings usually.
- Cobsa - short-necked lute of Romania; pear-shaped, 5-7-sectioned resonator.
- Cuatro - of the guitar family; found in South America and the West Indies.
- Cuica - Brazilian friction drum with a remarkable pitch range.
- Cura - smallest of the saz family, about 75cm.
- Cymbalom - box zither of Hungary, related to the English dulcimer.
- Daduk - Bulgarian fipple flute.
- Daire - round, single-headed drum of south-eastern Europe, Asia etc.
- Darabuka - one-sided goblet-shaped drum; Northern Africa, Middle East
- Derbacki - hand drum.
- Dholak - (or Dhol) double ended drum traditionally used in weddings across the Indian subcontinent.
- Didjeridu - traditionally used by aborigines of Northern Australia; an end-blown, straight, natural trumpet, without separate mouthpiece, made from termite hollowed eucalyptus branch, stripped of its outer bark, with beeswax at mouth end. Also made from bamboo. Yidaki and yidaki; Two of about 45 Aboriginal words for didjeridu. Didjeridu not an Aboriginal word
- Divan - largest member f the saz family, about 140cm.
- Dizi - transverse flute of the Han Chinese.
- Djembe - one-sided drum from west coast of Africa, usually carved from a single tree trunk.
- Dobro - guiatr with one or more metal resonator discs mounted inside body.
- Dohollah - the brass Tabla.
- Duduk - flute of Bulgaria; 20-100cm long; 6 finger holes.
- Duf - a Mazhar but without the cymbals.
- Dulcimer - name applied to certain musical instruments of the box zither type.
- Dumbeg - (or Dumbeck)hour glass-shaped drum similar to darabuka.
- Dumbra - lute of the Tartar people.
- Dundun - African; set of 4 drums, the 'iyailu' member is shaped like an hour glass and has a skin on each side, linked by tension strings (by pressing these, up to 2 octaves can be played); but only played one-sided.
- Dvoyanka - Bulgarian double fipple flute.
- Emele abo - see Bata
- Erhu - chinese 2 string fiddle.
- Fa'atete - Tahitian drum, covered in a tight, single membrane; distinct, high sound like a drum roll.
- Fender Rhodes - Jazz: electric piano.
- Fipple - a word meaning the sharp edge of the lip (of a flute or recorder).
- Flugelhorn - valved brass instrument resembling a large cornet
- Gadulka - Bulgarian type of fiddle played upright; usually rests on knee.
- Gangan - Nigiran drum, smaller than Dundun; palyed under the arm.
- Gasbah - rim-blown flute.
- Gayda - Bulgarian bagpipe; single reed; mouth blown.
- Ghatam - South Indian clay pot; classical percussion.
- Gilo stones - (Solomon Islands, Pacific) music is created by striking certain stones with bamboo sticks of varying lengths, prodrucing mellifluous xylpophonic sounds, like running water.
- Gousli - traditional Russian zither/harp with 16 metal strings.
- Guiro - scraper of the Caribbean; long, fretted gourd rubbed with stick.
- Guitar-Charango - based on the European guitar and mandolin, this intrument with 10 strings has a "sound body"
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