This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 311.121.221 under that system. These instruments are single-stringed heterochord musical bows with an attached resonator but without a tuning noose.
These instruments may be classified with a suffix, based on how the strings are caused to vibrate.
Instrument | Tradition | Hornbostel–Sachs classification | Description |
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berimbau [1] | Brazil | 311.121.222 | Single-stringed musical bow Toque de Angola on unaccompanied berimbau (help·info) |
Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie in 1914. An English translation was published in the Galpin Society Journal in 1961. It is the most widely used system for classifying musical instruments by ethnomusicologists and organologists. The system was updated in 2011 as part of the work of the Musical Instrument Museums Online (MIMO) Project.
Although this metamorphosis insured the emerging berimbau a higher social status as a Brazilian national instrument.