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Public catalog clues linked to this instrument include percussion, rumba, son, rhythm. This guide turns the available catalog record into a serious starter pathway: setup, sound production, technique priorities, listening…
Bar or pole shaped chimes, usually arranged in a line or circle, hanging free or struck with mallets. For the instrument often used in bell towers, see carillon. For the…
Public catalog clues linked to this instrument include strings, keys, late middle ages, renaissance. This guide turns the available catalog record into a serious starter pathway: setup, sound production, technique…
Public catalog clues linked to this instrument include hs 111.142. This guide turns the available catalog record into a serious starter pathway: setup, sound production, technique priorities, listening research, self-checks,…
Originally produced by Hohner from 1964 to 1982, it had keys with rubber-clad metal tines that tapped metal strings and two electric pickups. Its sound has been recreated in many…
Developed chiefly as a folk instrument for accompanying singing and dancing, its front has a intricately carved soundhole and slants towards the bottom where the 5 double (sometimes triple courses)…
Free reed melodica-like instrument that is worn like an accordion, with differing length pipes which control the pitch. Catalog context: free reed aerophone with pitching pipes. Public catalog clues linked…
13th century or earlier South Indian fretless slide lute used in Carnatic music. Hollow body made of jack-fruit with a secondary resonator of hollowed out gourd, it has 6 main,…
An early analogue synthesizer, it had a vacuum tube oscillator and high/low pass filtering to produce vibrato. Catalog context: electronic keyboard, forerunner to analogue synthesizers. Public catalog clues linked to…
Catalog context: Accordion with buttons arranged chromatically. Public catalog clues linked to this instrument include chromatic, button, bellows. This guide turns the available catalog record into a serious starter pathway:…