List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs number: 311.211

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This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 311.211 under that system. It includes instruments that are Stick zithers, musical bow cum stick, with rigid string carrier, curved flexible end, one attached resonator gourd.

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3 : Instruments in which sound is produced by one or more vibrating strings (chordophones, string instruments).
31 : Instruments which consist solely of a string bearer or a string bearer with a resonator that is not integral to the instrument
311 : Instruments with a string bearer shaped like a bar, or consisting of a sideways board (bar zithers)
311.2 : Instrument has a rigid and inflexible string carrier (stick zither)
311.21 : Instrument has a string carrier with one curved, flexible end (musical bow)
311.211 : Instrument has one resonator gourd

These instruments may be classified with a suffix, based on how the strings are caused to vibrate.

Plectrum small flat tool used to pluck or strum a stringed instrument

A plectrum is a small flat tool used to pluck or strum a stringed instrument. For hand-held instruments such as guitars and mandolins, the plectrum is often called a pick and is a separate tool held in the player's hand. In harpsichords, the plectra are attached to the jack mechanism.

In music, a bow is a tensioned stick with hair(usually horse-tail hair), coated in rosin to facilitate friction, affixed to it that is moved across some part of a musical instrument to cause vibration, which the instrument emits as sound. The vast majority of bows are used with string instruments, such as the violin, although some bows are used with musical saws and other bowed idiophones.

Musical keyboard musical instrument part

A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave. Depressing a key on the keyboard makes the instrument produce sounds—either by mechanically striking a string or tine, plucking a string (harpsichord), causing air to flow through a pipe organ, striking a bell (carillon), or, on electric and electronic keyboards, completing a circuit. Since the most commonly encountered keyboard instrument is the piano, the keyboard layout is often referred to as the piano keyboard.

List

InstrumentTraditionHornbostel–Sachs classificationDescription
Kse diev
Khsae muoy
Cambodia 311.211Stick zithers, musical bow cum stick, with rigid string carrier, curved flexible end, one attached resonator gourd
Phin namtao
Lanna (Northern Thailand)311.211Chest-resonated stick zither with one string, equivalent to Kse diev
Phin pia [1]
Pin pia
Lanna (Northern Thailand)311.211Chest-resonated stick zither with two to five strings

Related Research Articles

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.

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Notes

  1. McGraw, Andrew (Summer–Fall 2007). "The Pia's Subtle Sustain: Contemporary Ethnic Identity and the Revitalization of the Lanna 'Heart Harp'". Asian Music. 38 (2): 115–142. doi:10.1353/amu.2007.0035.