List of musical instruments
The following is a list of musical instruments, categorized by section. Please add to List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number also.
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2 String instruments 3 Keyboard instruments 4 Free reed instruments 5 Percussion instruments 6 Voice 7 Electronic instruments 8 Other |
Wind instruments
Woodwind instruments
- Bagpipe
- Bassoon
- Bombarde
- Clarinet
- Contrabassoon
- Cor Anglais | English Horn
- Crumhorn
- Flute
- Heckelphone
- Jug
- Oboe
- Ocarina
- Pan pipes
- Piccolo
- Recorder flute
- Sarrusophone
- Saxophone
- Shakuhachi
- Shawm
- Slide whistle
- Tarogato
Brass instruments
(not necessarily made from brass)- Alphorn
- Baritone horn
- Bazooka
- Bugle
- Cornet
- Cornett or Cornetto
- Didgeridoo
- Euphonium
- Flugelhorn
- French Horn
- Mellophone
- Ophicleide
- Sackbut
- Serpent
- Shofar
- Sousaphone
- Tenor Horn / Alto Horn (same instrument)
- Trombone
- Trumpet
- Tuba
- Wagner tuba
String instruments
- Aeolian harp
- Appalachian Dulcimer
- Balalaika
- Banjo
- Bouzouki
- Musical bow
- Cello
- Crwth
- Double Bass
- Fiddle
- Fiddle and Violin
- Violin
- Gayageum
- Geomungo
- Guitars:
- Hammered dulcimer
- Hardanger
- Harp
- Hurdy gurdy
- Jew's harp
- Komungo
- Kora
- Koto
- Lute
- Lyre
- Mandolin
- Mbira
- Psaltery
- Samisen (or shamisen)
- Sitar
- Ukulele
- Vieille
- Vihuela
- Viol da gamba
- Viola
- Viola d'amore
- Washtub bass
- Xalam (or khalam)
- Zither
Keyboard instruments
Free reed instruments
- Accordion
- Concertina
- Harmonica
- Harmonium
- Melodica
- Pipe organ (some pipes; others are woodwind)
- Sheng
Percussion instruments
- Bell
- Castanets
- Chimes
- Cymbals:
- Crash cymbal
- Hi-Hat cymbal
- Ride cymbal
- Splash cymbal
- Drums
- Abïa drum
- African drum
- Bass drum
- Bodhran
- Bongo drum
- Conga
- Taiko
- O Daiko
- Kettle drum
- Octaban
- Octapad
- Snare
- Steel drum
- Tabla
- Tambourine
- Timpani
- Tom-Tom
- Udu
- Gong
- Guiro
- Glockenspiel
- Maracas
- Marimba
- Metallophone
- Steelpan
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Washboard
- Xylophone
- Xylorimba
Voice
Electronic instruments
- Denis d'or
- Drum machine
- Hammond organ
- Mellotron
- Moog
- Ondes Martenot
- Rhodes piano
- Synclavier
- Synthesizer
- Teleharmonium
- Theremin
Other
- Bull-roarer
- Joe Ahmed
- Musical Saw
