The
most prominent type of the musical instrument
known as the mandolin is the
Neapolitan, a
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Mandolin |
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Oboe |
The oboe is a soprano
- range, double - reed woodwind highly important
as a solo
and
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The
largest and most complex of all musical
instruments, the organ,
sometimes more
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Organ |
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Piano |
The piano, the
common abbreviation of pianoforte, is a chordophone
(stringed musical
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The
family of saxophones patented in 1846 by Adolphe
Sax combines the single reed of
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Saxophone |
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Snare Drum |
The snare drum,
also called side drum, is the smallest drum in
ordinary use. It is cylindrical
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A
small, shallow drum with a single head, the tambourine
has metallic "jingles" fitted into
its
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Tambourine |
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Trombone |
The trombone emerged
as a variation of the medieval TRUMPET when the
slide, in the
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A trumpet is a
tube whose enclosed air column is vibrated by
buzzing the lips on a mouth
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Trumpet |
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Tuba |
Tuba refers to
a family of lip-vibrated, upright, valved, metal
wind instruments with a folded
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The
violin, the most commonly used member of the modern
string family, is the
highest
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Violin |
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Xylophone |
A xylophone is
formed of a series of acoustically undercut, graduated
wooden bars suspend
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In
the broadest sense a zither is a stringed instrument
consisting basically of a string or strings
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Zither |
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