Glossary of Musical Instruments
- Guitarron - large bass guitar of Chile and Mexico.
- Guoqin - 7-stringed Chinese zither.
- Gyterne - short-necked lute.
- Hammond - Jazz: electric organ, often times equipped with built in rotating Leslie speaker for tremolo effect.
- Hardanger fiddle - folk violin of western Norway; 8/9 strings; narrower, shorter-necked and more arched than the ordinary violin.
- Harmonium - small, portable, bellow-blown reed organ used in India; player usually sits on ground, one hand fingering keyboard, other pumping bellows. European and American Harmoniums have a pedestal, and foot pedals to pump the bellows. The player sits in a chair and uses both hands!
- Iyailu - see Bata drums.
- Jaleika - from Tver, Russia; wind instrument made from reed-tipped cow horn.
- Jarana - five course guitar of Mexico, smaller than the normal guitar.
- Jouhikko - bowed lyre of Finland.
- Kalimba - played with the thumbs; "thumb piano"; its sound is produced by the vibration of toungues of metal or wood; small in size.
- Kanoun - (also 'quanun') zither/psaltry of the Middle East.
- Kantele - known by other names including 'gousli'; Finnish folk instrument of the psaltery type.
- Kanun - 72 stringed harp of the Near East.
- Kaval - long, rim-blown flute from Bulgaria.
- Kawala - special type of egyptian bamboo flute (different from the nay); played in religious festivals.
- Kena - shepherd's pipe; shepherd's flute (pre-Colombian times) without mouthpiece, carved in a bamboo cane; originally carved from animal bone.
- Kobsa - plucked lute.
- Konghou - historical Chinese string instrument; harp.
- Koto - longest of the long zithers of East Asia; about 6 feet long; 13 silk strings; this narrow harp is laid horizontally, each string with its own movable bridge.
- Lali - (Beqa, the Pacific) two large slit log drums.
- Laud - a flat back lute from Spain, with 12 metal strings in 6 courses and pear shaped body.
- Lojki - wooden spoons, popular Russian percussion.
- Lute, class of instruments related to the violin and guitar; do not necessarily have to have a 'body'; plucked or bowed; many types.
- Marimbas - modern commercially manufactured, fully resonated orchestral xylophone.
- Mazhar - a very large tambourine.
- Melodeon - 1) button accordion, In England this term includes all button keyed accordions, in Ireland and Scotland it is more specific to the one row 10 keyed variety.
- 2)small reed organ with single keyboard;
- Metallophone - percussion instrument consisting of a row of tuned metal bars.
- Mizmar - Arabic wind instrument with single or double reed.
- Moxenos - family of three wooden flutes of variable size(large, medium and small) that are always played simutaneously.
- Nai - panpipes of Romania; concave row of 20 pipes of different lengths and diameters, glued together in order of size with lower ends resting on a slightly curved stick; lower ends stopped with cork, then filled with beeswax to determine tuning.
- Nay - Egyptian bamboo flute.
- Norwegian tusselfloyte - a Norwegian flute.
- Nyckelharpa - keyed fiddle used throughout Scandinavia and N. Germany.
- Ocarina - extremely popular vessel flute usually made of terracotta; all-in-one large, elongated egg-shaped with flattened tube in its side and finger holes.
- Omele - see Bata.
- Oud - Egyptian lute.
- Ovcharska svirka - Bulgarian shepherd's pipe, smaller version of the kaval.
- Pahu - Tahitian bass drum; double-headed membranophone; Western origin; can be of hollowed out coconut trunks, covered by either sharkskin or calfskin.
- Pahu Tupa'l Rima - Tahitian single membrane drum, not unlike a tall conga.
- Pandeiro - either frame drum or tambourine of Portugal, Brazil and Galicia (Spain).
- Paraguayan harp - 36 strings; built by the Guarani tribe of Indians from carefully selected local wood that must then be stored for at least 2 generations.
- Pate - (Cook Islands, the Pacific) slit log drums.
- Pencilina - A one of a kind electric ten stringed collision of the hammer dulcimer, slide guitar, koto and fretless bass with six pickups of varied types. It is struck with sticks, plucked and bowed.
- Pinquillo - very small wooden flute with mouthpiece.
- Pipa - 4-stringed guitar-like plucked instrument; pear-shaped box.
- Psaltery - box zither; raised wooden board or box with soundholes, with strings stretched parallel to the soundboard and attached at either side by wooden pegs or metal pins; usually plucked.
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