lamellaphone
~ Percussion instrument
Description
Lamellophones are a family of musical instruments which have one or more long thin plates - "lamella" or "tongues" - which are fixed at one end and free at the other end. The free end is plucked, causing the plate to vibrate.
Annotation
Hornbostel-Sachs: 12
Annotation last modified on 2014-08-05 12:32 UTC.
Relationships
| subtypes: | Guitaret (electric lamellophone) mbira |
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| type of: | plucked idiophone |
| Wikidata: | Q936762 [info] |
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