Category:Musical instruments

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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.

Subcategories

This category has the following 56 subcategories, out of 56 total.

Lists of musical instruments (3 C, 38 P)
Musical instruments by genre (8 C)
Categories by instrument (6 C)
Musical instruments by continent (7 C)
Musical instruments by era of invention (4 C)
Musical instruments by manufacturer (4 C)
Musical instruments by material (4 C, 1 P)
Musical instruments by country (159 C, 1 P)

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Musical instrument parts and accessories (5 C, 44 P)
Music educators by instrument (6 C)

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Composers by instrument (26 C)
Musicians by instrument (21 C)
Compositions by instrumentation (34 C, 1 P)

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Aerophones (12 C, 27 P)
Amplified instruments (2 C, 37 P)

B

Basso continuo instruments (9 P)

C

Chordophones (3 C, 23 P)
Lists of compositions by instrumentation (23 P)
Musical instrument construction (2 C, 1 P)
Continuous pitch instruments (2 C, 52 P)
Contrabass instruments (2 C, 39 P)

D

Diatonic instruments (1 C, 6 P)

E

Effects units (1 C, 71 P)
Electronic musical instruments (18 C, 138 P)
Experimental musical instruments (6 C, 59 P, 1 F)

F

Friction musical instruments (3 C)

H

History of musical instruments (5 C, 15 P)

I

Idiophones (6 C, 83 P)
Improvised musical instruments (14 P)
Individual musical instruments (3 C, 5 P)
Instruments of musicians (2 C, 21 P)

K

Keyboard instruments (9 C, 110 P)

L

Musical instrument libraries (3 P)

M

Marching band instruments (12 P)
Mechanical musical instruments (4 C, 34 P)
Medieval musical instruments (14 P)
Membranophones (6 C, 66 P)
Monophonic musical instruments (1 C, 1 P)
Music instrument endorsement lists (2 P)
Musical instrument museums (3 C, 69 P)
Musical instrument retailers (2 C, 7 P)
Musical instruments in art (4 C, 345 P, 3 F)
Mythological musical instruments (6 P)

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Organology (3 C, 8 P)

P

Percussion (13 C, 2 P)
Percussion instruments (10 C, 5 P)

S

Sacred musical instruments (38 P)
Songs about musical instruments (5 C, 20 P)
Sound sculptures (1 C, 16 P)
Speech-surrogate instruments (3 P)
String instruments (25 C, 161 P)

T

Toy instruments and noisemakers (36 P, 1 F)
Transposing instruments (8 C, 4 P)

W

Wind-activated musical instruments (11 P)
Woodwind instruments (13 C, 21 P)

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Musical instrument stubs (5 C, 52 P)

Pages in category "Musical instruments"

The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

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Vintage musical equipment

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List of musical instruments

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H

I

J

Janzi (musical instrument)

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Lead instrument

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Planephones

S

Shorthand for orchestra instrumentation

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W

Woodwind instrument

Z

Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau

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