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Percussion instruments. Gumbe — a French Guianan frame drum. Kayamb (caïamb/kayanm) — a shaken Réunionnais idiophone. Pahu — a French Polynesian drum. Pate — a French Polynesian and Wallisian/Futunan log drum. Rouleur — a Réunionnais drum. Sunaglieri — Corsican mule bells. Timpanu — a Corsican triangle.
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. A person who plays a musical instrument is known as an instrumentalist.
The grouping of instruments includes (from the bottom, clockwise) a zhangu, pipa, two headed drum, tambourine, konghou, sheng, and two end-blown flutes (such as xiao or pipes. Chinese musical instruments are traditionally grouped into eight categories known as bā yīn ( 八音 ). [ 1] The eight categories are silk, bamboo, wood, stone, metal ...
A family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification, such as the Hornbostel-Sachs system, are based on a hierarchy of instrument families and families of families. Some commonly recognized families are: Strings family. Woodwind family.
Pages in category "Bulgarian musical instruments". The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Bulgarian folk music is known for its asymmetrical rhythms (defined by the famous Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist Béla Bartók as "Bulgarian rhythms"), where meter is split into uneven combinations of short (two metric units) and long (three metric units) beats, corresponding to the dancers' short and long steps.
Min Huifen ( 閔惠芬; 1945–2014) was born in Yixing, Jiangsu. She first became known as the winner of the 1963 fourth Shanghai Spring Art Festival. She studied with Lu Xiutang and Wang Yi, and graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1968, and became the erhu soloist with the Shanghai Folk Orchestra.