Liste d’instruments

Instruments à vent

• accordina (harmonica/accordion hybrid) — Harmonica/Accordion hybrid where the bellows for the accordion bit with buttons/keys receive air though the user blowing into the instrument like an harmonica
• accordion (Commonly used bellowed free reed with keys/buttons) — Invented and developed by several people in the early 1800's, it has an arm operated bellows with keys or buttons at one end and bass buttons at the other.
• alghoza — L’alghoza est une flûte à bec double jouée traditionnellement par les gardiens de chèvres dans la région indienne du Punjab et au Pakistan.
• cor des Alpes — Le cor des Alpes est une trompe conique en bois utilisée pour communiquer dans les montagnes.
• clarinette alto — La clarinette alto est une clarinette en Mi♭ ou parfois en Fa, habituellement avec une partie cintrée.
• flûte en sol — La flûte en sol est une flûte de concert, plus grave que la flûte d’amour.
• alto saxophone (Middle member of the saxophone family) — The most common member of the saxophone family, it is the alto member.
• concertina anglo (Historical hybrid between English and German style concertinas) — Bisonoric and button layout like the German, reeds and hexagonal ends like the english, this concertina was created to rival the popular German variant imported into England.
• antara (Andean single row panpipe) — Used in traditional Andes music, it consists of a single row of pipes.
• arghul — L’arghoul est un instrument à vent traditionnel égyptien à double corps et à anche simple.
• cornemuse — La cornemuse est un instrument composé de tuyaux sonnants alimentés par une poche remplie d’air.
• bandonéon — Invented and used in 1800's Europe, it became popular in Argentina. Unlike concertinas it is square, but alike its button action is parallel, typically it has several reeds per button.
• bansurî — La bansurî est une flûte traversière alto, l’équivalent d’Inde du Nord de la venu.
• saxhorn baryton — Le saxhorn baryton est un instrument de musique à pistons et perce conique de la famille des cuivres. Il est en si♭, inférieur d’un octave à la trompette en si♭.
• baritone saxophone (Middle-Low member of the saxophone family) — The most common of the lower members of the saxophone family, it is the middle-low baritone.
• cervelas baroque (Conical bored compact double reed) — Improved by Johann Christoph Denner sometime around 1730, its "coiled snake" bore now is conical, in addition it is played through a removable metal curled mouth piece.
• trompette baroque (20th century reinvented natural trumpet) — Based on the natural trumpet used in the 1500s to 1700s, this mid 20th century reinvention lacks valves but may have vents.
• orgue de Barbarie — Un orgue de Barbarie est un instrument musical mécanique qui est actionné habituellement par la rotation d’une manivelle qui fait tourner un rouleau sur lequel la musique est encodée.
• clarinette basse — La clarinette basse est une clarinette sonnant exactement à l’octave inférieure de la clarinette soprano en si♭.
• flûte basse — La flûte basse est une flûte sonnant à l’octave inférieure de la flûte traversière en do. Elle mesure environ 1,5 m.
• harmonica basse — L’harmonica basse est une sorte d’harmonica accordé à l’octave dont la note la plus grave (fa) est identique à celle de la guitare basse.
• hautbois baryton — Le hautbois baryton est un instrument de musique à vent de la famille des bois, à anche double, approximativement deux fois plus grand qu’un hautbois régulier.
• flûte à bec basse
• bass saxophone (Second lowest member of the saxophone family) — Second largest and lowest member of the saxophone family. It is similar to the baritone, but larger and with a longer loop near the mouthpiece.
• trombone basse
• trompette basse — La trompette basse est une sorte de trompette dont le registre est similaire au trombone à pistons.
• clarinette de basset
• cor de basset
• basson
• bawu — Le bawu est un instrument à vent chinois. Bien qu’en forme de flûte, c’est un instrument à anche libre avec une seule anche en métal. Il est traversier.
• bayan
• bazooka (telescoping brass tube) — Large wide tube with a very strongly flaring bell, the telescoping creates only subtle fluctuating overtones. It inspired the name of the anti-tank weapon.
• bellowed reed — Free reeds with bellows attached, often in a square shape, thence called squeezebox
• biniou (Small Breton bagpipe) — Developed from the veuze and often accompanying the bombard, the small high-pitched, singular octave bagpipe is used in Breton folk dancing.
• birbynė
• lur en bouleau (Wooden natural brass) — Known from the Viking age, this natural brass trumpet/horn was made of wood or birch bark
• sifflet bosun
• bombarde — Instrument breton à perce conique et à anche double.
• cuivres
• lur en bronze (Bronze age natural brass) — Chiefly Scandinavian, these bronze age natural brass horns were ritualistically buried in pairs.
• clairon
• buisine — Trompette médiévale droite habituellement faite en métal.
• accordéon clavier « boutons »
• calliope
• Cembalet (electric piano with reeds) — electromechanical piano with stainless steel reeds and an amplified pick-up. not to be confused with "cembalo" which is another name for Harpsichord
• chalumeau — Le chalumeau est un instrument à vent à anche simple de la fin de la période baroque, début de la période classique.
• orgue de chambre — Un orgue de chambre est un petit orgue à tuyaux.
• chirimía (oboe-like double-reed from South-America) — Cousin de la chamélie, introduit en Amérique latine par les espagnols au XVIe et XVIIe siècles.
• accordéon chromatique à clavier « boutons » (Accordion with buttons arranged chromatically)
• harmonica chromatique
• cimbasso (19th century bass trombone) — Its name variously used to describe the serpentone, the ophicleide and the bombardon, the modern cimbasso was developed by instrument making firm Pelitti under instruction guidance by Verdi; it had a forward facing bell and 3 to 6 valves. The modern instrument has a characteristic bend.
• clarinette
• Claviola (free reed aerophone with pitching pipes.) — Instrument à anches libres, joué comme un mélodica mais porté comme un accordéon, et dont la longueur des tuyaux détermine la hauteur des notes.
• concertina
• conque — conque
• clarinette contrebasse
• flûte contrebasse
• flûte à bec contrebasse
• contrabass saxophone (Largest member of the saxophone family) — The largest and lowest pitch member of the saxophone family (ignoring the subcontrabass tubax)
• contrebasson
• cor anglais (Curved bulb belled transposing oboe) — While also known as English horn, it is neither a horn nor English, but a transposing member of the oboe family, pitched at F
• cornamuse — La cornemuse est un instrument à anche double de la Renaissance, semblable au tournebout mais à cloche fermée.
• cornet (19th century brass trumpet-like) — Early 19th century brass instrument with a conical bore, it is more compact and mellower than the trumpet which it resembles.
• cornett (Wooden medieval wind instrument) — Cornett, cornetto or zink (not to be confused with the cornet) was a medieval wind instrument popular from 1500 to 1650.
• tournebout — Le tournebout, utilisé en Europe du 14e au 17e siècle
• taegum — Le taegŭm est une grande flûte traversière de Corée fabriquée en bambou.
• danso (Korean educational end-blown bamboo flute) — Used in folk music and educationally in Korean schools, it is a notched, vertically end-blown bamboo flute which, like its bigger cousin the Tungso, was derived from the Chinese xiao in the 19th century.
• diatonic button accordion (Accordion with buttons arranged diatonically) — For the organ also known as Melodeon, see reed organ.
  For the mouth blown keyed MELODION, see melodica.
  Also known as Melodeon, it has 1 to 2 rows of buttons that each produce two tones (bisonoric).
• didgeridoo
• đing buốt — Ede traditional flute, four finger holes, blowing reed
• đing năm — Le đing năm est un orge à bouche avec calebasse utilisé par des groupes ethniques minoritaires des hautes terres du centre du Vietnam.
• ding tac ta — Le dinc tac ta est un instrument à vent à anche libre joué par la minorité Ê Đê du Vietnam. Il est composé d’un tube en bambou avec trois trous et une calebasse.
• dizi — Le dizi est une flûte traversière chinoise habituellement en bambou. Parfois appelée simplement 笛 (di), mais en japonais 笛 (fue) référant de manière plus générique à la classe entière de flûtes plutôt qu’à l’instrument spécifique.
• instrument à anche double
• appeau — Short wooden flute used to imitate the sound of ducks
• duduk — Le duduk est un instrument à vent en bois traditionnel arménien à anche double.
• douçaine — La douçaine (ou doulciane) est un instrument à vent en bois à anche double qui est un ancêtre du basson datant du 16e siècle.
• dulzaina
• clarinette en mi bémol — La petite clarinette en Mi♭ est un membre de la famille des clarinettes.
• flûte à embouchure
• concertina anglais (Unisonoric concertina) — Unisonoric concertina with hexagonal sides and concertina reeds.
• flageolet anglais (English "improved" flageolet) — working to improve on its design, the English flageolet had 6 finger holes in front and one thumb hole in the back.
• euphonium
• fifre — Small, high-pitched, transverse flute, similar to the piccolo, but with a narrower bore.
• flûte à conduit — Fipple or duct flutes have a mouthpiece that is breathed into, but no reeds
• flaviol (Small Catalan fipple flute) — Small Catalan flageolet used in the cobla ensemble, unlike other tabor-pipes it is also played with both hands.
• flageolet (french 16th century fipple flute) — Bien oublié aujourd'hui, il a été amélioré au fil de quatre siècles.Le flageolet du Midi de la France possède quatre trous sur le dessuset deux trous pour les pouces en-dessous.
• bugle
• flumpet (Hybrid between trumpet and flugelhorn) — As long as a trumpet, it shares the piston valve design of both instruments with a mellow sound between the two.
• flûte (Reedless aerophone) — Reedless Aerophone, usually a tube
• flûte d’amour — La flûte d’amour (aussi appelée flûte ténor) est la mezzo-soprano de la famille des flûtes.
• flutina — Early predecessor to the diatonic accordion, it was similar to the German concertina and had 4 fold bellows and brass reeds.
• footbass (Foot operated bass bellows) — Large square spring-containing bellows operated by the feet, it was used by accordion players as bass accompaniment in early 20th century Wallonia.
• instrument à anche libre
• cor d’harmonie
• fujara — La fujara est une grande flûte de berger originaire de Slovaquie centrale.
• gaida (Southeastern Europe and Balkan bagpipe) — Small Bulgarian/Macedonian and Balkan goat or sheep-skin bagpipe used in folk, pastoral or other traditional settings. There are many similarly named small bagpipes in this area.
• gaita asturiana (Larger Asturian bagpipe) — Larger than the gallega, it has been in use since atleast the 13th century, traditionally with only one chanter and drone, it has very colourfully decorated fur.
• gaita de boto (Cloth covered Aragonese bagpipe) — Historically solo instrument used in traditional and ritual dances, the drones have reinforced pewter rings and the goatskin bag is covered with a colourful fabric.
• gaita gallega (Two to three drone Galician bagpipe) — Used at-least since the 9th century, it has two to three drones with bag and pipe both decorated with fur. Used in festivals by marching players accompanied by percussion.
• gaita sanabresa (Small single drone Sanabrian bagpipe) — From Sanabria, it is distinct from other Spanish bagpipes, with its single drone and open fingering, it is accompanied by percussion in folk music.
• gajdy (Large Silesian bellow-blown bagpipe) — Czech-polish bellow-blown large goatskin bag with a 6 finger hole chanter and a long angular drone pipe that is balanced over the shoulder, the two flared pipes have inlaid metal designs and can have goat head decorations.
• flûte à bec Exilent
• garmon (Russian diatonic folk accordion) — Used in Russian, Mari and Caucasus folk music, it has two rows of buttons in a diatonic scale, as well as additional bass buttons.
• flûte en corne (Medieval chamois or goat horn) — Médiéval et éventuellement plus vieux encore, il était fabriqué en corne de chèvre ou plus rarement en terre cuite. Avec que peu de trous et une amplitude d'une seule octave, il était utilisé par les bergers. Les variantes modernes sont plus compliquées et sont généralement fabriquées en corne de bœuf.
• concertina allemand (Bisonoric concertina) — More usually square than hexagonal, with long plate reeds
• gralla — La gralla est un instrument traditionnel catalan à anche double de la famille des hautbois.
• flûte à bec grande basse
• Great Highland bagpipe (Large Scottish bagpipe) — Known since 1400, traditionally in military context, today it is the most widespread and famous of bagpipes.
• guan — Le guan est un instrument à vent à anche double en bois dur ou en bambou.
• härjedalspipa (fipple flute from Härjedalen, Sweden) — Flûte à bec traditionnelle suédoise à six trous.
• harmonica (mouth organ) — Used especially in blues, American folk and country, it consists of a rectangle shape with soundholes along the wide side, where air is blown and drawn across free reeds which are mounted on a plate inside.
• harmonium (Portable Indian reed organ) — Not to be confused with European upright reed organ also commonly known as "Harmonium".
  Also known as the samvadini, it was developed in India from imported reed organs. Consists of a wooden box-shape with a keyboard and a bellows in the back; both are operated by the same player, often a singer. While upright versions exist, they are rare.
• heckelphone
• hélicon
• hichiriki (Japanese double reed flute) — Used in gagaku, it is a double reed flute
• flûte hmông — flûte hmông
• cor
• hotchiku — Le hotchiku est une flûte en bambou japonaise à embouchure.
• hue puruhau (Māori taonga pūoro large bass gourd) — large gourd (hue) with no finger-holes, it is blown like a jug and has a booming bass sound.
• hulusi — Le hulusi est un instrument à vent à anche libre chinois constitué de trois tuyaux de bambou traversant une calebasse.
• flûte irlandaise (19th century transverse flute) — wooden flute of the simple-system type, popular in Irish folk music
• cruche — Une cruche vide (habituellement de verre ou en grès) jouée avec la bouche.
• k’lông pút (Vietnamese Air Xylophone) — Played by manipulating the airstream through bamboo pipes using cupping and clapping, this Vietnamesian "Air Xylophone" was traditionally played in the rice-field.
• kagurabue (Japanese transverse bamboo flute) — Used in gagaku, this traditional bamboo flute has six holes.
• kaval — Le kaval est une flûte oblique chromatique à embouchure des Balkans et d’Anatolie.
• kèn bầu (Vietnamese double reed) — Used in the traditional music of Vietnam, it is made of wood with a gourdshaped bell.
• kèn lá — Le kèn lá est un instrument utilisé par la minorité Hmong du Vietnam composé d’une feuille repliée placée dans la bouche et qui vibre lorsqu’on souffle.
• instruments à vent à clefs — These have holes along the body and sound production is similarly to woodwinds.
• khèn Mèo — Le khèn Mèo est un orgue à bouche utilisé par les Hmongs. Il est composé de tuyaux de bambou (habituellement six) qui ont chacun une anche libre.
• khene (Traditional bamboo mouth organ) — Traditional instrument from Laos, it is also used in Thailand and even Vietnam. it consists of 14 bamboo pipes with a small hollowed hardwood soundbox.
• khlui (Vertical bamboo duct flute) — Ancient reedless fipple flute made of bamboo.
• ki pah — cornes de vache sans trou pour les doigts, avec embout et anche libre
• kōauau (Māori taonga pūoro small cross-blown flute) — cross-blown flute made of stone, bone or wood. It is 10 to 39 cm long, with usually 3, but everything from none to 5 holes is known.
• kōauau ponga ihu (Māori taonga pūoro tiny gourd nose flute) — nose flute made of gourd with it two holes, while it is tiny, it has a huge sound
• kortholt — Instrument à vent de la Renaissance.
• launeddas — Le launeddas est un instrument à vent typique de la Sardaigne constitué de trois tuyaux.
• limbe — La limbe est une flûte traversière mongole.
• low whistle (Low pitch fipple flute) — Larger and deeper than the tin whistle, it was developed by Overton and made of aluminium.
• mellophone (Middle-range valved brass) — Not to be confused with melophone, a bellowed free reed shaped like a lute.
  Originating in the 19th century horn-design boom, it is used mostly in outside concert and marching music
• mélodica (Free-reed keyboard mouth-organ) — Popular as a musical education tool, it is usually made of plastic with a keyboard, its free-reed mouthpiece can also have an optional air tube. It has many brandnames.
• melophone (Bellowed free reed in a lute-like casing) — Not to be confused with mellophone, a brass valved instrument.
  Wooden body shaped like a lute, it has a bellow operated by a handle at the bottom and buttons operating the reeds in the "neck"
• mijwiz (twin bamboo single reed pipe) — Played using circular breathing, it is made of twin bamboo reeds with five to six holes. From the middle-east, it is used in traditional music and as a accompaniment to belly dancing and dabke.
• mirliton — Simultaneously a woodwind and membranophone, sound is produced by singing or speaking into a thin buzzing membrane.
• orgue à bouche — Orgue à bouche est un terme générique pour les aérophones à anche libre à une ou plusieurs chambres à air.
• musette de cour (French baroque bagpipe) — Also known as baroque musette, it was a small bagpipe used predominantly by French court and nobility in the 1600-1700's.
  For the instrument known as "chinese musette", see suona
  For the oboe also known as musette, see piccolo oboe
• nabal — Le nabal est un long cor droit en cuivre utilisé dans la musique traditionnelle coréenne.
• nâgasvaram (South Indian large double reed) — Similar to the north Indian shahnai, it has a 95 cm long hardwood body with 7 finger holes and 5 wax-fillable tuning holes and a wide flaring wooden bell; shorter variants have a metal bell.
• nagak
• nai (Romanian diatonic pan flute) — Used traditionally since 16th-17th century by lǎutari, it is made of bamboo or reed stopped with cork and beeswax set in a curved bottom bar.
• instruments à vent naturels — Les cuivres naturels ne peuvent produire des notes que dans la série harmonique de l’instrument.
• cor naturel (Brass valveless and keyless ancestor of the modern horn) — Ancestor of the modern horn, it consists of a coiled tubing with a large flared bell. Bugles, posthorns and hunting horns are all natural horns
• trompette naturelle (Brass valveless ancestor of the modern trumpet) — Ancestor of the modern trumpet, it is valveless with a mouthpiece and at-least one coil, it has an origin in military use.
• ney — Une flûte oblique à embouchure à cinq ou six trous plus un pour le pouce, jouée dans les mondes arabes, turc et persan.
• nguru (Māori taonga pūoro small vessel flute) — Small vessel flute made of wood, clay, bone or soft stone like soapstone, it has 4 holes and is played with the nose or mouth.
• nōkan — La nōkan est une flûte traversière aiguë en bambou japonaise.
• Northumbrian pipes (Small north east England bagpipes) — Used for more than 250 years, its one chanter and usually four drones have narrow bores.
• flûte à nez — La flûte à nez est un instrument populaire trouvé dans les îles, états et territoires de l’océan Pacifique.
• sifflet à nez — Le sifflet à nez (aussi humanatone) est un instrument à vent simple joué avec le nez. L’air soufflé est dirigé vers un biseau et la fréquence des notes est contrôlée par le volume d’air.
• hautbois — Le hautbois (soprano)
• hautbois d’amour — Le hautbois d’amour (mezzo-soprano)
• hautbois de caccia (Baroque curved flared bell transposing oboe) — First referred to in 1722, this transposing double-reed has a curved tube and a flared (brass) bell.
• ocarina — L’ocarina est un type de flûte globulaire à conduit.
• olifant (Ivory natural brass hunting horn) — Hunting horn carved out of ivory, it was widely used in Medieval wars to alarm or increase soldiers' morale.
• ophicléide
• orgue
• pan flute (Collection of end-blown pipes) — Named after the Greek god Pan, they are a selection of end-blown pipes made of reeds, bamboo, wood or similar. Many different variations exists around the world, especially in South America.
• pang gu ly hu hmông — une sorte de pipeau à coulisse. Flûte hmông
• pedal accordion (Polish foot-pedal accordion) — Developed in Warszaw, Poland, it is used in folk music. It has two foot-operated bellows attached via metal/brass pipe; its body-bellows are only used for accents.
• pi nai — Le pi nai est un type de pi habituellement utilisé dans l’ensemble Piphat.
• pí thiu — La flûte verticale pí thiu ou pí khui
• accordéon-piano
• piccolo
• musette — La musette est le plus petit et le plus aigu membre de la famille des hautbois.
• trompette piccolo
• orgue à tuyaux
• piri — Le piri est un instrument à anche double coréen en bambou, utilisé à la fois dans la musique coréenne folklorique et classique (de la cour). Apparenté au guan chinois et au hichiriki japonais.
• trompette de poche — La trompette de poche est une petite trompette en si♭ offrant la même gamme de jeu que la trompette régulière.
• poï āwhiowhio (Māori taonga pūoro swung whistling gourd) — A hollowed out gourd (hue) with one to three holes, swung around creating a whistling, chattering sound that resembled birds
• porotiti (Māori taonga pūoro humming discs) — Whirring, spinning disks of many shapes, sizes and materials. When blown on, they also create a well of different humming sounds.
• portative (Very small bellows operated pipe organ) — Constructed in medieval Europe to be as portable as possible, small upright wooden frame with keyboard contains a row of flute-pipes fed air from hand operated bellows.
• pōrutu (Māori taonga pūoro two harmonic flute) — A longer version of the kōauau, it is from 30-40 cm up towards 60 cm in length and often made of bone and hardwoods such as porokaiwhiria, mataī and tutu.
• post horn (Post-signalling valveless coiled brass) — Developed as early as the 1500-hundreds and used for mail-carrier signalling, it was coiled (usually just once) and valveless.
• chanterelle de pratique — Ressemble à une flûte à bec, mais à anche double et un doigté de cornemuse. Utilisé principalement pour apprendre à jouer de la cornemuse, mais parfois utilisée comme instrument à part entière
• pūkaea (Māori taonga pūoro wooden announcement trumpet) — Up to 2,5 meters long, this wooden trumpet was used for a variety of announcements like war, welcoming people and kumara planting.
• pūmotomoto (Māori taonga pūoro long one-holed flute) — Longue flûte en bois dont la partie supérieure est fendue, et ne comportantqu'un orifice près d'une de ses extrémités.
• pūpakapaka (Māori taonga pūoro long necked conch trumpet) — A pūtātara with a long wooden mouth piece, it has a deeper timbre than the pūtātara
• pūtātara (Māori taonga pūoro conch shell trumpet) — Trumpet made of conch shell, it has a beautifully carved wooden mouthpiece. It was for signalling, but also ceremonial and ritual use.
• pūtōrino (Māori taonga pūoro wooden dual-voiced flute) — Made of wood and shaped after the casemoth cocoon, it can be played as both a flute (female voice) and a trumpet (male voice).
• anche quadruple
• quena (Small Andean end-blown flute) — Used in traditional Andean music, it is the smallest of its family
• rauschpfeife — Un instrument en bois à anche double et perce conique du 16e et 17e siècle.
• recorder (Family of end-blown fipple flutes) — Family of end-blown woodwind flutes with a thumb-hole and seven finger-holes, it is the most common flute in Western classical tradition.
  The family consists of a wide assortment of sizes:
  
  • garklein recorder
  • sopranino recorder
  • soprano recorder (descant)
  • alto recorder (treble)
  • tenor recorder
  • bass recorder
  • great bass recorder (c-bass)
  • contrabass recorder
  • subcontrabass recorder
  
  Not to be confused with the transverse (side-blown) Western concert flute.
• harmonium (Organ with free reeds) — For the accordion also known as Melodeon, see diatonic button accordion.
  For the mouth blown keyed MELODION, see melodica.
  For the portable reed organ used in India see harmonium.
  Also known as pump organ, it is large, looks like an upright piano and has pedals attached to bellows with reeds. Sound is produced by playing the keyboard.
• anches
• régale (Portable bellowed reed organ) — Popular in the renaissance, it was small and portable with two bellows and brass reeds.
• rehu (Māori taonga pūoro long flute) — Made of wood like mataī or tutu, this long flute has a transverse blowing hole with a fipple like European flutes but finger holes in the style of the traditional pōrutu.
• cervelas Renaissance (Renaissance era compact double reed) — Originating 1590 or earlier and made of wood or ivory, it had nine parallel cylindrical bores joined up at the top and bottom creating a continuous bore like a curled up snake. Its reed is attached to a center pirouette.
• rondador (Ecuadorean panpipes) — Made of cane, it is used in Ecuador.
• ryuteki (Japanese transverse flute) — Used in gagaku, it is a transverse flute
• sacqueboute
• säckpipa (Historical Swedish bagpipes) — Almost completely disappeared by the 20th century, modern revivals based on museum examples are now used by Swedish folk musicians.
• saduk — Croisement entre le saxophone et le duduk, inventé et joué par Alexander Berne.
• saluang (West Sumatran end-blown flute.) — Used traditionally by the Minang people of West Sumatra for love songs, in shamanic rites and for capturing tigers, this open end-blown bamboo flute can be decorated to resemble tiger-stripes. Played with a circular breathing technique, it is 75 cm long with 3 to 6 holes depending on subtype.
  
  • saluang darek "inland" 4 holes
  • saluang pauh/padang 6 holes
  • saluang sungai pagu 3 holes
• apito de samba — L’apito est un sifflet à trois tons utilisé dans la musique de samba et autres styles de musique brésiliennes.
• sáo meò — flûte saó ôi, utilisée par les Muong
• sáo trúc — La sáo trúc est une flûte traversière en bambou.
• sarrusophone — Sous-famille des bois, car à anche double, mais dont le corps est en cuivre, inventée par Sarrus et Gautrot en remplacement du hautbois et du basson notamment.
• saxophone
• accordéon schwyzois — L’accordéon schwyzois est une sorte d’accordéon diatonique à boutons utilisé dans la musique folklorique suisse.
• Scottish smallpipes (Small Scottish bagpipe) — Comme les « Northumbrian smallpipes » (dont elle s’inspire), mais avec le doigté de la grande cornemuse écossaise.
• serpent
• shakuhachi (Japanese end-blown flute)
• chalemie — La chalemie, instrument médiéval et de la renaissance, ancêtre du hautbois
• shehnai — From the Indian subcontinent, it is used at marriages, in temples and concerts - made of wood with a double reed and wood/metal flared bell, it has 6-9 holes.
• sheng — Le sheng est un orgue à bouche chinois à anche libre constitué de plusieurs tuyaux verticaux.
• shinobue (Japanese high-pitched transverse flute)
• sho (Japanese free reed flute) — It is based on the Chinese sheng, but is smaller
• shofar (Ram's horn natural brass)
• surpeti — Le shruti box est semblable à l’harmonium et utilisé pour fournir un accompagnement de bourdon.
• siku (Andean double row panpipe) — For the Italian bag-pipe, see zampogna.
  Also known as zampona, traditional Andean panpipe has two rows of pipes tied together with colourful bands.
• anche simple
• cuivres à coulisse — Les cuivres à coulisse utilisent une coulisse pour changer la longueur du tube.
• pipeau à coulisse — Le pipeau à coulisse (le tristement célèbre son « Clangers »).
• sopilka — Type de fifre utilisé dans la musique traditionnelle ukrainienne.
• flûte à bec sopranino
• saxophone sopranino
• clarinette soprano
• flûte soprano
• soprano recorder (Middle member of the end-blown fipple flute recorder family) — Also known as the descant, it is the third smallest and most common member of the modern recorder family.
  Traditionally made of various woods, it is today often made of plastic and used to teach children music.
  Not to be confused with the side-blown (concerto) soprano flute.
• saxophone soprano
• soubassophone
• spilåpipa — La spilåpipa est une flûte à bec suédoise à huit trous sur le dessus, mais aucun pour le pouce.
• flûte à bec soucontrebasse
• suling (Southeast asian bamboo fipple flute) — Made of bamboo, it has from 4 to 6 finger-holes and a small wedge-shaped fipple. There are many varieties all around Southeast Asia, it is also used in gamelan.
• suona (Chinese double reed) — Important to the folk music in northern China, it has a conical wooden body and seven finger holes.
• syrinx (Ancient Greek pan flute) — Named after the myth of the nymph Syrinx, this reed pan flute was used in ancient Greece.
• taepyeongso — Le taepyeongso est un instrument à vent coréen à anche double comportant un corps conique en bois avec un embout en métal et un cornet métallique en forme de coupe.
• tárogató — Le tárogató un instrument à anche turc/hongrois/roumain apparenté au saxophone et à la clarinette.
• tarota (Wooden keyless shawm from Catalonia) — Traditional Catalan double reed of medieval origin. Used for cobla music in the 19th century, it mostly disappeared: current tarotas are a modern re-invention.
• saxhorn alto
• flûte à bec tenor
• saxophone ténor
• trombone ténor — Le trombone ténor est le trombone standard et sa note fondamentale est le si♭.
• tenora (Catalonian double reed descendant of shawm) — Derived from the tenor shawm, it was independently developed in Catalonia by oboe player Andreu Turon in the 19th century. Made of ginjoler wood with a metal cone, it is used in the traditional Cobla and Sardana music.
• orgue de cinéma — Un orgue de cinéma, comme le Wurlitzer.
• galoubet (european 11th century pipe) — Ancient pipe originating in Europe, with analogies all over the world, it is often combined with tabor drums.
• tible (Catalan valved shawm used in cobla) — Catalan double-reed, created in the 19th Century by adding valves to the tarota. Used principally for cobla music.
• tiêu — Le tiêu est une flûte oblique à embouchure apparentée à la xiao chinoise.
• tin whistle (Simple fipple flute) — Simple six-holed fipple flute, originally made of metal; it used to cost a penny, giving it the alternate name “penny whistle”.
• tonette (plastic fipple flute) — introduced in 1938, it was a popular American educational instrument.
• torupill (Estonian folk bagpipe) — With a bag made of seal's stomach, 5-6 holed chanter of juniper, pine or ash and 1-2 drones, it was attested at least from the 14th century. It survived in coastal regions until its recent revival.
• tràm plè — Une variante de la flûte hmông, les lèvres du souffleur entourent le trou de soufflage avec l’anche libre vibrant à l’Intérieur.
• trắng jâu — trắng jâu est la basse du trắng lu
• trắng lu
• flûte traversière
• flûte en sol
• flûte à bec alto
• trikitixa (Basque button accordion) — Diatonic button accordion used in traditional Basque ensemble
• trombone
• trompette
• tuba
• tubax — Le tubax est un saxophone modifié plus compact puisque recourbé quatre fois.
• tulum (Droneless Turkish bagpipe) — Used by shepherds and peoples of the southeast Black Sea region, it is droneless with parallel double chanters each with 5 fingerholes.
• tungso (Korean notched end-blown bamboo flute) — Made of thick aged bamboo, this notched end-blown flute may have had a buzzing membrane.
• txistu (Basque fipple flute) — Fipple flute that became a symbol for the Basque folk revival.
• uilleann pipes (Irish bellow-blown bagpipe)
• trombone à pistons
• cuivres à pistons — Les cuivres à pistons utilisent un jeu de pistons pour faire varier la longueur du tube de l’instrument.
• venu (South Indian transverse bamboo flute)
• flûte globulaire — Une flûte globulaire est un type de flûte dont le corps est un résonateur, au lieu d’un cylindre.
• vibrandoneon (accordina with piano keys) — accordina en bois avec des touches de piano, inventée en Italie.
• vuvuzela (plastic horn) — plastic horn often used at football matches in South Africa
• tuba wagnérien
• sifflet (Small simple single-toned flute) — Simple, single-toned and round-bodied whistle often used for regulation and signalling (sport, traffic, ...).
• Wiener Horn — Used in classical and orchestral music, mostly by orchestras in Vienna.
• seljefløyte
• instruments à vent
• les bois
• wot (Round Southeast Asian traditional pan-flute) — Used in Laos and Isan traditional music, it is made of bamboo or ku wood, the individual stopped pipes are arranged around a central core using beeswax.
• Xaphoon — Le xaphoon est un instrument à vent chromatique sans clef à anche simple en bambou.
• xiao (Chinese end-blown flute) — Ancient Chinese vertical, end-blown flute made of bamboo
• xun — Le xun est une flûte globulaire de Chine dont l’embouchure est sur le dessus.
• żaqq (Maltese mouth-blown bagpipe) — Made of a whole animal-skin, it is used in festivals. The blowpipe (mserka) is made of rubber or cane, the chanter (saqqafa) are two cane pipes, one 2 holed, the other 5 holed, with the bell of an ox horn.
• zhaleika — Le zhaleika est un instrument de musique à vent à anche simple de Russie.
• zurna

Instruments à cordes

• guitare à 12 cordes
• koto basse à 17 cordes — Un koto à 17 cordes au lieu de 13, appelé parfois koto basse.
• guitare basse acoustique
• guitare acoustique sans frette — Guitare acoustique sans frette.
• guitare acoustique
• harpe éolienne
• ajaeng — L’ajaeng est une cithare coréenne à archet à 7 (parfois 8 ou 9) cordes.
• akkordolia (German keyed box zither) — Similar to the Japanese taishogoto, it has an elongated teardrop shaped wooden body with button accordion like keys which plays the melody and sets chords..
• viole alto (Alto member of the viol family) — Alt, alto or contralto member of the viol family. Not to be confused with the Viola of the violin family, known as "Alto" in French.
• alto (Alto or vertical violin, for French "alto" credits, choose viola) — Tuned the same as the viola but larger in size, it is played upright like the cello.
• dulcimer des Appalaches (Folk drone zither from N. America) — Historically a folk instrument from Appalachia, its elongated figure-of-eight shaped soundbox is made of various woods and often has heart-shaped sound-holes. It has 3 to 4 metal strings (including drone) and is fretted diatonically.
• archiluth — L’archiluth est un instrument européen à cordes pincées développé aux environs de 1600 comme compromis entre le très grand théorbe et le luth Renaissance.
• guitare Archtop — Une guitare Archtop est une guitare acoustique ou semi-acoustique à cordes d’acier au dessus reconnaissable car bombé, particulièrement populaire chez les joueurs de jazz.
• arpeggione (bass viol with guitar frets and tuning) — Inventé en 1823, il ressemble à un violoncelle, mais avec des frettes et un accordage de guitare.
• autoharpe
• bağlama (Turkish long-necked bowl lute) — Used in folk music, it is often called "saz". The neck with adjustable frets, is of beech or juniper, the body with spruce soundboard, of various woods, its seven strings divided into courses are plucked with a plectrum.
• baglamas (Treble bouzouki) — Long necked bowl lute, it is named after a related Turkish lute
• bajo sexto — La bajo sexto est un instrument mexicain à 12 cordes en 6 cordes doublées.
• balalaïka
• bandore — Although originally built like a cittern, its 6-7 courses of strings were tuned more like a lute.
• bandura (Ukraininan lute-zither) — Large box lute-zither with a short, unfretted neck. It has 30 or more strings fanned out on the body, the four to eight bass strings are strung to the neck.
• bandurria
• banhu (northern coconut huqin) — Le banhu est un instrument à cordes frottées de la familles des huqins. Aussi appelé banghu de par son utilisation dans l’opéra bangzi.
• guitare banjo — Le banjitar est un banjo à six cordes avec le manche d’une guitare.
• banjo
• banjo-ukulele (banjo ukulele hybrid) — small fretted hybrid instrument with a banjo body and a ukulele neck, popular in the 1920-30
• banjoline (banjo and mandolin/violin hybrid) — reinvented several times in different lands, it combines banjo body and neck of mandolin, it is tuned like it and the violin.
• barbat (ancient asian/persian lute) — Ancêtre perse/d’Asie centrale du oud iranien. Instrument important dans la Perse et l'Iran pré-islamique. Le « barbat perse » actuel est plus proche du oud.
• guitare baryton
• guitare baroque (Baroque gut string guitar) — Predecessor of the modern classical guitar, it had gut strings and even gut frets. First described in 1555, it surpassed the Renaissance lute's popularity.
• baryton (Bowed with pluckable strings) — Hybrid between the viol and the bandora, it has an extra set of plucked strings in addition to the bowed ones. Used regularly in Europe until the end of the 18th century.
• guitare basse — Bass member of the guitar family. For the electric variant use electric bass guitar for the acoustic one, use acoustic bass guitar
• basse de viole (Bass member of the viol family) — Most common viol member today, it was the bass-range viol in the original consort.
• basse de violon (Sixteenth century precursor of the (violon)cello) — Sixteenth century predecessor of the violoncello, it was fretless with f-holes and had at first three, then later four, strings tuned in fifths.
• berda (begeš, large bass serbo-croatian plucked stringinstrument) — proche de la contrebasse, dotée de quatre cordes en métal, elle fait généralement la partie basse des orchestres de tamburica serbo-croates.
• berimbau
• bhapang (Rajasthani string membranophone) — Originating in Mewati community of Rahajastan, India, it is traditionally made of gourd with top and bottom cut of with a goat hide membrane nailed to one opening and a gut string which ends in a bamboo piece attached to the membrane. The instrument is held in the armpit and played by plucking the string while pulling the it.
• bin-sitar (Hybrid fretted stick-zither)
• bisernica (prim, small serbo-croatian plucked stringinstrument) — plus petit instrument des orchestres de tamburica serbo-croates. C’est généralement l’instrument principal. Il peut être doté d’une corde double et trois cordes simples (prim/bisernica) ou deux cordes doubles et deux cordes simples (bisernica).
• biwa — Le biwa est un luth japonais à manche court et avec frettes joué avec un grand plectre de forme triangulaire.
• Blaster Beam (long metal bar with strings) — Very long metal bar fitted with strings and electric pickups, it makes a deep ominous booming sound and is often used in score.
• bolon — Le bolon est une harpe-luth traditionnelle jouée dans de nombreux pays africains.
• bouzar/gouzouki (hybrid of bouzouki and guitar) — guitar-bouzouki hybrid with guitar body and 4 pairs of strings like the bouzouki, developed separately several different luthiers, among them Stefan Sobell (bouzar) and Davy Stuart (gouzouki)
• bouzouki
• bowed lute
• bowed lyre
• piano à cordes frottées — A piano dont les cordes sont frottées avec des filaments en nylon ou d’autres matériaux.
• psaltérion à archet
• instruments à cordes frottées
• brač (basprim, serbo-croatian plucked stringinstrument) — second plus petit instrument des orchestres de tamburica serbo-croates. Il y en a généralement deux, première et deuxième basse. Il peut être doté de trois cordes doubles ou deux cordes doubles et trois cordes simples.
• bugarija (kontra, serbo-croatian plucked stringinstrument) — proche de la guitare, dotée d’une double corde en ré et de trois cordes simples, elle fait la partie rythmique des orchestres de tamburica serbo-croates.
• bulbul tarang (Indian keyed box zither) — Developed from the Japanese taishogoto, it is made of wood, often an integral case. It has two courses of strings; drone and melody strings operated by buttons or keys.
• buzuq — Le buzuq est un luth à long manche fretté apparenté au bouzouki grec et au saz turc, associé à la musique Libanaise et Syrienne.
• cavaquinho (Small four-stringed Portugesian lute) — Small Portuguese lute with four wire or gut strings, it has many descendants in South and Latin America.
• violoncelle (Small bass of modern violin family) — Also know as violoncello (the "small large viol"), it is the medium bass member of the modern violin family and a principal member of the symphony orchestra.
• čelo (čelović or csello, counter serbo-croatian plucked stringinstrument) — proche de la guitare comme la bugarija, dotée de soit deux cordes doubles et deux cordes simples (čelović) ou plus souvent aujourd’hui de quatre cordes simples, elle fait généralement la partie de contre chant des orchestres de tamburica serbo-croates. (čelo/čelović/) La čelović est dans une tonalité différente de la čelo.
• chakhe — Le chakhe est une cithare de Thaïlande en forme de crocodile à trois cordes pincées.
• chanzy — Le chanzy est un luth touvain à trois cordes.
• Chapman stick
• charango (Small Andean lute) — Used by the Quechua and Aymara, it is a small lute of 5 courses with 10 strings
• chikuzen biwa — Le chikuzen biwa est un biwa avec quatre ou cinq cordes avec frettes popularisé durant l’ère Meiji.
• chitarra battente (Italian strumming 17th century guitar) — 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) of thin steel strings are fastened with pins. The back can be rounded or flat.
• chitra vînâ (Large South Indian fretless Carnatic slide lute) — 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, 3 drone and 11-12 sympathetic strings with a sliding block of hardwood to vary pitch. Much like the North Indian vichitra veena is to the rudra veena, chitra veena is to the Saraswati veena.
• chuurqin (ancient predecessor of the Morin khuur) — Counter-trapezoid shaped Mongolian fiddle, it is the ancestor of the Morin khuur
• cymbalum (European hammered dulcimer)
• citole — La citole est un est un instrument à cordes pincées archaïque, lointain ancêtre de la guitare moderne et similaire à la celle-ci.
• cistre
• cizhonghu (large huqin) — Le dahu, aussi cizhonghu ou xiaodihu, est un gros instrument chinois à cordes frottées de la famille du húqín.
• classical guitar (Modern acoustic gut/nylon string guitar) — Also known as Spanish guitar, it is used in classical, folk and other styles, the strings are nylon or gut.
• kemençe classique — Le klâsik kemençe est piriforme et principalement utilisée dans la musique classique ottomane.
• clavicorde
• Clavinet (Electro-mechanical amplified clavichord) — 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 modern synths.
• cò ke — Le cò ke est un instrument utilisé par la minorité ethnique Mường du Vietnam. Il est similaire au đàn nhị, étant composé d’un résonateur cylindrique en bois couvert d’une peau de serpent et de deux cordes, joué avec un archet en crin.
• harpe diatonique
• Craviola (guitar/Viola caipira like plucked string instrument) — Distinctly asymmetric in contrast to typical guitar, its timbre is a combination of the harpsichord (pt:cravo) and the Viola caipira. It can have six or twelve nylon or steel strings and are produced solely by company Giannini.
• lyra crétoise — La lyra crétoise est un instrument piriforme à cordes frottées, fondamental à la musique traditionnelle crétoise et de certaines paries de la Grèce.
• crwth
• cuatro — Une classe de guitares sud-américaines
• cümbüş (Turkish oud like) — inventé par Zeynel Abidin qui fut surnommé par le nom de son instrument, c'est une sorte de banjoluth moderne turc.
• đàn bầu (One-string Vietnamese tube zither) — Possibly ancient Vietnamese tube zither. It was originally made of bamboo with one silken string, today it is usually wooden with a metal string. Fastened in one end to a movable device and resonator, the melody comes from changing the string's tension.
• đàn nguyệt — Le đàn nguyệt ou đàn kìm est un luth vietnamien à deux cordes et manche long, avec un corps plat et circulaire.
• đàn nhị — Le đàn nhị est un instrument vietnamien à deux cordes frottées sans frette dont le résonateur est fermé d’une peau de serpent. L’archet passe entre les cordes. Apparenté au huqin chinois il a des cousins partout en Asie.
• đàn tam — Le đàn tam est luth vietnamien à trois cordes sans frette.
• đàn tam thập lục (Vietnamese hammered dulcimer) — Recently imported into Vietnamese instruments, this thirty-six stringed dulcimer has many counterparts in various countries, such as "santoor" in India and "cimbalon" in Europe.
• đàn tranh — Le đàn tranh est une cithare vietnamienne à 16 cordes pincées et à chevalets hauts et mobiles. On en joue avec des plectres, la main gauche altérant les notes en appuyant sur les cordes.
• đàn tứ — Le đàn tứ, ou đàn đoản, est un luth traditionnel vietnamien en forme de lune à manche court.
• đàn tứ dây — D’une construction actuelle, en forme de guitare-basse carrée à quatre cordes.
• đàn tỳ bà — Le đàn tỳ bà est un luth vietnamien piriforme à quatre cordes pincées. Comme la pipa chinoise il a des frettes positionnées très haut sur le manche.
• daruan (Bass ruan) — Bass member of Chinese ruan family of lutes.
• diddley bow — L’arc diddley est un instrument américain monocorde qui est habituellement fait maison. Il comprend une seule corde en fil de fer agricole tendue entre deux clous sur une planche, passant sur une bouteille de verre utilisée à la fois comme chevalet et comme moyen d’amplifier le son de l’instrument.
• dilruba — Le dilruba est un instrument à cordes frottées du Nord de l’inde, utilisé principalement en musique religieuse et chansons légères classiques.
• diyingehu (bass gehu (huqin)) — Le diyingehu est un instrument à quatre cordes frottées chinois accordé comme le violoncelle.
• djoza (ancient Iraqi bowed string instrument) — its origins can be sourced almost 5000 years ago, this Iraqi string instrument is the forefather of several instruments around the world. Its name means coconut or acorn, while originally made of walnut, it is today of coconut and fish-skin or heart-membrane.
• dolceola — Cithare équipée d’un clavier, lui donnant l’apparence d’un mini-piano.
• dombra — Le dombra est un luth à long manche d’Asie centrale.
• domra — Le domra est un instrument à cordes et long manche russe de la famille des luths, au corps rond et à trois ou quatre cordes de métal.
• dozo n’goni (West African calabash lute-harp) — Six-stringed lute-harp from Wassoulou, West Africa. Traditionally played by hunters, its resonator box is made of calabash covered by animal skin.
• doshpuluur — Le doshpuluur est un luth touvain à long manche.
• contrebasse (Contrabass of modern violin family) — Known also as contrabass or upright bass, it is the largest and lowest-pitched member of the modern violin family and a principal member of the symphony orchestra.
• dranyen — Le dranyen est un luth traditionnel tibétain à sept cordes et long manche.
• dulce melos — European mediaeval struck string instrument, similar to the psaltery and a possible ancestor of the piano. Basically it is a dulcimer with keys.
• dotâr — Le dutar est un luth à deux cordes et long manche trouvé en Iran et en Asie centrale.
• duxianqin — Le duxianqin est une cithare monocorde probablement dérivée du đàn bầu Vietnamien.
• guitare basse — Solid body 4-stringed electric bass guitar. The most common for "bass guitar" and "bass" credits in popular (rock) music.
• violoncelle électrique
• guitare électrique sans frette — Guitare électrique sans frette.
• piano à queue électrique
• guitare électrique
• harpe électrique
• lap steel guitar électrique
• sitar électrique (electric guitar variant of sitar) — an electric derivation of the sitar, it often features sympathetic strings and a more guitar shaped body.
• contrebasse électrique
• alto électrique
• violon électrique
• erhu (Middle range huqin) — L’erhu est un instrument chinois à deux cordes frottées.
• esraj — L’esraj est un instrument à cordes frottées de l’Est et du centre de l’Inde, principalement utilisé comme accompagnement.
• banjo à 5 cordes — The most common and based on the original design, its fifth string is shorter than the others, creating an uneven pitch progression.
• guitare flamenca (Guitar used in flamenco) — Deriving from the classical guitar, it has many modifications and playing techniques to create a more percussive sound. Originally having wooden tuning pegs like lutes and violins, it has a thinner, lighter build with "golpeadores" or tapping-plates and less sustain than the classical guitar.
• harpe folklorique
• piano forte
• banjo à quatre cordes — Lacking the short drone string of its predecessor, it is usually played with a plectrum and has 22 frets.
• basse sans frette — variété de guitares basse sans frette
• gadoulka
• gaohu (High pitched huqin) — Le gaohu est un instrument chinois à cordes frottées développé à partir du erhu et accordé un quart plus haut.
• kayagum — Le gayageum est un instrument traditionnel coréen habituellement à douze cordes de la famille des cithares.
• gehu (cello huqin) — Le gehu est un instrument chinois à quatre cordes frottées chinois accordé comme le violoncelle.
• geomungo — Le geomungo est une cithare traditionnelle coréenne habituellement à six cordes basée sur le guqin chinois.
• harpe à simple mouvement — La harpe à simple mouvement
• ghaychak (Persian double-chambered bowl lute) — Having 4 metal strings, it is carved from a single piece of wood into a particular shape similar to the Sarinda, it has 3 soundholes, two on each side of the short neck and one under the bridge which is membrane-covered.
  Not to be confused with the Uyghur spike fiddle ghijak.
• ghijak (Uyghur spike fiddle) — Not to be confused with the Persian lute ghaychak.
• ģīga — La ģīga est une cithare à deux cordes frottées que l’on trouve en Lettonie.
• gittern (Medieval lute-like guitar forerunner) — Round-backed lute ancestral to the guitar
• gopichant (Indian drum-zither) — Also known as ektara, it has a body of wood or coconut with a membrane at the bottom. Attached to the sides is a handle-like neck of split bamboo from which a single string is suspended and attached to the membrane.
  For the one string lute also called "ektar" see tumbi
  
• piano à queue
• gravikord (Modern 24-stringed stainless steel kora) — Based on the polyrhythm of the Afrikan kora, kalimba and Japanese koto, it is electro-acoustic with a stainless steel frame with 24 nylon strings and an integral piezoelectric sensor.
• gudok
• guitalele — Le guitalele est un hybride guitare-ukulélé combinant la petite taille de l’ukulélé aux six cordes d’une guitare classique.
• guitare
• guitarrón chilien — Le guitarrón chilien est un instrument à cordes pincées ressemblant à la guitare et avec habituellement 25 cordes.
• guitarrón méxicain — Le guitarrón mexicain est un très grand instrument à cordes pincées utilisé traditionnellement par les groupes mariachi. Il est muni de six cordes et d’une très grosse caisse de résonance.
• gumbri (3-stringed plucked bass-lute) — Lute played by Gnawa people, its camel hide covered wooden soundbox has 3 goat gut strings.
• guqin — Le guqin est un instrument chinois à sept cordes pincées de la famille des cithares.
• gusli (Traditional Russian plucked psaltery) — Ancient Russian psaltery/box-zither with 4 to 36 metal strings, it is played in a few different ways, depending on the variation (see annotation). Originally similar to a flat harp, it was played at ceremonies and other festivities.
• guzheng — Le guzheng ou zheng est une cithare chinoise à cordes pincées ayant de 18 à 23 ou plus cordes et des chevalets mobiles.
• haegeum (Korean silk-string fiddle) — Widely used in Korea, it has a wood soundbox and a rod neck with two silk-strings, heldt on the knee while played with a bow
• hammered dulcimer
• violon Hardanger — Folk-fiddle from Hardanger, Norway. It has 4 melody- and 4-5 drone-strings, it is richly decorated and used in the traditional "halling" folk music and dance.
• harpe — La harpe est un instrument à cordes pincées constitué de plusieurs cordes étirées sur un cadre vertical.
• guitare-harpe — La guitare-harpe est un instrument à cordes basé sur la guitare, agrémenté de cordes supplémentaires qui ne sont pas fixées au manche et qui peuvent être pincées individuellement.
• harpejji (Electric guitar-piano tapping instrument) — Effectively a small electric guitar-piano hybrid, it is played by tapping the multiple isometric arranged strings that are stretched over a long flat board.
• clavecin
• guitare hawaïenne
• heike biwa — Le heike biwa est un biwa à quatre cordes et cinq frettes utilisé pour accompagner l’épopée « Heike Monogatari ».
• hummel (Medieval pear-shaped drone zither) — Whole or half-pear shaped wooden body, it is partly fretted and has two string-courses; melody and drone. The name comes from Germanic words meaning bumblebee or buzzing.
• vielle à roue
• igil — L’igil est un instrument touvain à deux cordes frottées.
• Indonesian rebab (Indonesian spike-fiddle used in gamelan) — Introduced to Indonesia in the 15th century, this variant of the spike-fiddle rebab has two bowed metal strings with characteristically long tuning pegs and is made of hide-covered wood or coconut shell. It is the melody leader in gamelan and is also used in healing rituals.
• bouzouki irlandais
• harpe celtique — Une harpe irlandaise/écossaise.
• jantar (Rajasthani stick zither) — Stick zither from Rajasthan. It is made of wood with at least two large gourd resonators, the strings rest on very high frets.
  
  Not to be confused with the 13th century tritantri-vina which evolved into the bin via a five-string stick-zither also known as "jantar".
• djéli n’goni (West African four-stringed grigot lute) — Luth à quatre cordes d'Afrique de l'Ouest en forme de banjo, jouétraditionnellement par les griots. La caisse est un tronc évidé, refermé par une peau tendue.
• jing’erhu (Beijing opera supporting erhu (huqin)) — Le jing’erhu est un instrument à cordes frottées chinois semblable au erhu, appelé ainsi car il est joué à l’opéra de Pékin.
• jinghu (Beijing opera upmost small & high pitch huqin) — Le jinghu est un instrument à deux cordes frottées chinois appelé ainsi car il est joué à l’opéra de Pékin.
• jouhikko — Le jouhikko est une lyre à deux ou trois cordes frottées que l’on trouve en Finlande et en Carélie.
• kacapi (Family of Sundanese string zithers) — There are two kinds, boat shaped "mother" and "child" ones, originally made of a single piece of wood and descended from the kacapi pantun as used in epic story. And a flat box-zither made of wood used from the 1950's and in experimental music.
• kacapi indung (Boat shaped zither used in Sundanese gamelan) — Known as indung "mother" or parahu "boat", it has 18 brass strings each with its own pyramid shaped bridge. Shaped like a boat, its sound hole is at the bottom.
• kacapi rincik (Small boat shaped zither used in Sundanese gamelan) — Known as rincik "child" it has 15 steel strings, it has individual bridges and a sound-hole in the bottom.
• kacapi siter (Box zither used in Sundanese gamelan) — Inspired by western zithers, it has 20 strings and is flatter than the other kacapis.
• kachva sitar (Flat-cut gourd sitar) — Flat-cut gourd sitar with 16 frets, 2 steel & 3 brass strings. In the 1820s it was used by Ghulam Mohammed to develop the surbahar.
  
  Mistakenly re-named "Kachapi vina" in the 19th century by Tagore, that instrument was actually an ancient unrelated short-necked pear-shaped lute.
• kamale ngɔni (Modern ngoni made of calabash with more strings) — Modern derivative of the donso ngɔni, it comes with more strings and is made of calabash. It became an important instrument in the rise of the Wassoulou music in the 80's and 90's.
• kamânche (Persian spike-fiddle)
• kanklės (Traditional Lithuanian plucked psaltery) — Oldest instrument of Lithuania, it is made of a special tree in a trapezoid shape, it has a metalbar and wooden pegs at each side were 5 to 12 strings are strung.
• kannel (Traditional Estonian plucked psaltery) — National symbol of Estonia, related to Finnish kantele. While traditionally a small instrument with 5 to 7 strings, some newer versions are much bigger, with up to 50 strings.
• kantele (Traditional Finnish plucked psaltery) — Traditional and mythological psaltery of Finland, it comes in two versions; the oldest, a one piece bridge-less psaltery with 5 to 20 originally horsehair, later metal, strings and a modern "Concert" box-zither variant with a switch mechanism to alter the up to 40 strings sharps and flats.
• qanun — Le kanun, instrument à cordes arabe
• kemençe de la mer noire — Kemençe turque oblongue, principalement utilisée en musique folklorique.
• lyra (Eastern Mediterranean bowed lute) — Made of wood, its soundbox is oblong and its neck is short
• keyed box zither (Composite chordophone) — Composite chordophone, box zither where some or all strings are operated by typewriter-keys or buttons (keyboard)
• khim (Thai and Cambodian hammered dulcimer) — Hammered dulcimer of Thailand and Cambodia it was imported via China.
• kinnor
• cithare
• kokle (Traditional Latvian plucked psaltery) — Originating from 13th century Latvia, it is made of wood and have today nine to eleven, up to thirty-three strings tuned diatonically. Played horizontally on lap or table by plucking while muting chosen strings. Became in the 70's and 80's an important part of the folklore movement.
• kokyū (Traditional Japanese bowed spikefiddle.) — Although similar to and introduced at the same time as the shamisen, it is unique to japan. With ebony neck and coconut body its three (rarely four) strings are played upright with a horsetail bow.
• komuz (Ancient Kyrgys fretless string) — Possibly dating back as far as 6000 BC, it is a national symbol of the Kyrgyz. Made of a single piece of apricot or juniper wood with 3 gut stings, it has derivations in much of eastern Europe.
• kora
• koto — Le koto est un instrument traditionnel japonais à 13 cordes tendues sur 13 chevalets mobiles sur la largeur de l’instrument.
• krar — Le krar est une lyre à cinq ou six cordes que l’on trouve en Érythrée et en Éthiopie.
• langeleik
• laouto (Greek long-neck lute) — Differs from other lutes in that its string tension is greater thus sounding more like the oud. From ancient Greece, it was used as an accompaniment to Cretan Lyra
• psaltérion (simplified zither) — Used to teach children how to play, it is a simplified zither shaped like a trapezoid.
• lap steel guitar
• laúd (spanish plucked chordophone) — Cistre espagnol à cordes pincées, diffusé par la diaspora espagnole.
• luth-clavecin
• lavta — Le lavta est un instrument à cordes pincées que l’on retrouve en Grèce et en Turquie.
• lira da braccio (Renaissance violin) — For the wheel-bowed instrument also called "lira", see hurdy-gurdy
  For the harp-like instrument, see lyre
  For the bowed lute, see Cretan lyra
• lyrone (Bass renaissance violin) — Bass member of the lira family, it has between 9 and 16 strings and a fretted neck.
• liuqin (Small pearshaped chinese lute) — Traditionally made of willow, it has four strings and a small, pear-shaped body. Played with a pick, it has a higher pitch than the pipa.
• luth — This is the specific instrument, for other, "lute-like" instruments, see lute-family
• luthéal — Le luthéal est une sorte de piano hybride qui étend les possibilités de registre d’un piano standard. Il a été créé par Georges Cloetens.
• lyra viol (Small bass viol) — Small bass viol, specialised for intricate polyphonics, it had a flatter bridge than the other bass viols.
• lyre
• mandoloncelle — La mandoloncelle est un instrument à cordes pincées de la famille des mandolines. Elle est à la mandoline ce que le violoncelle est au violon.
• mandoguitar (electric guitar / mandolin hybrid) — Unison course tuned 12 stringed electric guitar body with mandolin neck, it is tuned an octave higher than a conventional guitar, thus having the tonal range of the mandolin.
  Not to be confused with flat-backed mandolin which is also sold as "mando-guitar"
• mandola
• mandoline
• mandoluth — Le mandole, mondole ou mandoluth est un instrument à cordes pincées d’Afrique du Nord, à mi-chemin entre la mandole et le oud.
• mandore/gallichon (18th century bass lute) — Invented by European luthiers in the first half of the 18th century, it had 6 to 7 single or double courses of gut strings and a long neck with either sharp or shallow angled pegbox.
• Marxophone — Un type de cithare sans frette.
• vihuela mexicaine — La vihuela mexicaine, utilisée par les mariachis
• minipiano — Le minipiano est un type de piano dont le mécanisme de production du son est positionné sous le clavier, permettant une utilisation ergonomique de l’espace.
• morin khuur (traditional bowed Mongol fiddle) — Important to the Mongolians, it is trapezoid shaped with two traditionally horsehair, now often nylon, strings fastened by wooden pegs at the end which is carved like a horse head.
• arc musical
• n’goni (West African gourd-lute) — A lute from West Africa, made of wood or gourd.
• njarka (Malian single string gourd-fiddle) — Made of goatskin covered dried gourd, it has a single gut string bowed with a horsehair bow.
• nyatiti — Le nyatiti est un instrument à cinq ou huit cordes pincées du Kenya.
• nyckelharpa — La nyckelharpa est un instrument suédois de musique traditionnel à cordes frottées.
• mandole ténor — La mandole ténor (ou d’octave) est un instrument à quatre cordes doublées avec frettes, accordé une octave au-dessous de la mandoline en Sol-Ré-La-Mi.
• octavilla (Spanish melody & strumming guitar) — Used in Spanish classic and popular music during the late 19th and early 20th century, it together with bandurria and laúd carried the melody in rondas and rondallas. It had six pairs of strings, tuned a fourth lower than bandurria, It fell out of use when contralto bandurria became common.
• octavina (Filipino rondalla guitar) — Originating with the Spanish influence on Filipino culture, it has 14 strings and a short neck with 16 to 20 frets. It is played with its close relative, the laúd.
• octobasse (Extralarge 3-string Bass) — Constructed as the uttermost largest member of the violin family, it is up towards 4 meters and has three strings operated by levers and pedals.
• oktawka — Petit violon traditionnel polonais.
• orpharion (Metal stringed renaissance lute.) — Invented in 16th century England, it had low-tension metal strings and sloping frets.
• orphica (late 18th century portable piano with shoulder strap) — portable piano with shoulder strap invented in 1795, it is a descendant of the Baroque Bauchladenspinett and a sort of early precursor of the keytar
• oud
• épinette ovale (late 17th century oval harpsichord) — more accurately a virginals, its strings were arranged in a pattern creating an oval shape, allowing for a stronger, more compact configuration. 2 examples survive today.
• harpe paraguayenne — La harpe paraguayenne est une harpe diatonique ayant de 32 à 48 cordes, utilisée au Paraguay et au Venezuela.
• pardessus de viole (Smallest member of the viol family) — Pardessus or sopranino member of the viol family
• piano-pédalier — Le piano-pédalier est une sorte de piano équipé d’un pédalier actionnant les notes les plus basses, comme celui de l’orgue.
• pedal steel guitar
• piano
• piano épinette (small drop action piano) — Petit piano droit, au mécanisme de type épinette, créé aux USA dans les années 1930 et fabriqué jusqu’au début des années 1990.
• pipa (Pearshaped chinese lute) — Chinese pear-shaped plucked lute with four strings and 12 to 26 frets.
• instrument à cordes pincées
• pluriarc (bow lute from West Africa) — From West Africa, it has multiple curved necks each with one string, sometimes played a harp and sometimes with stops like a lute.
• Portuguese guitar (Portugese plucked lute) — Used in fado, it has twelve steel strings, strung in six courses.
• piano préparé — Un piano préparé est un piano dont le son est altéré en plaçant des objets (préparations) entre ou sur les cordes et marteaux.
• psaltérion
• ravanhatta — Ancient bowed fiddle, once popular in Western India and Sri Lanka.
• rabâb (Generic rebab catch-all) — "Rebab" (and other variant spellings) is the name for chiefly these 3 types of bowed/plucked string instrument families:
  
  • Large, short necked boatshaped "sarinda" type, here the kabuli rebab
  • Small, long necked spike fiddle "huqyin" type, here the Indonesian rebab
  • various sizes, varying necklength, pearshaped "Cretan lyra" type, here the bowed lutes proper
  
  
  Given the name cross-overs they are confused with eachother in most sources. Curiously, this cross-over confusion extends to related but separately or similarly named instruments as well, for example Ghijak (a spikefiddle) and Ghaychak (a boat-shaped).
  It is, for the meantime, unknown how, if at all, these 3 subtypes are related.
  
  For the spike fiddle used in gamelan, see Indonesian rebab.
  For the plucked, boat-shaped Afghani instrument also know as kabuli rabab, see rubab.
  For the medieval Indian plucked lute see Seni rebab.
  For the medieval European pear-shaped fiddle see rebec.
• rebec (Medieval bowed lute) — With a pear shaped body made from a single piece of wood, this medieval bowed string instrument originated as a Byzantian lyra-like variant of the Arabic rebab and was a possible influence to the violin.
• guitare à résonateur — La dobro, une guitare à résonateur
• ronroco (South American square charango) — An octave lower than the charango, it is the largest member of the family.
• ruan — Les ruans sont une famille de luths à cordes pincées chinois.
• rubab (Ancient Afghan plucked lute member of the bowed rebab family) — Related to bowed instrument rebab, it is played in many countries, from India to Afghanistan. It's made of wood and covered with a membrane and has 3 melody strings, 3 drone strings and 11/12 resonance strings.
• rudra vînâ (Ancient large North Indian tube zither) — Considered the originator of all Indian strings (veena) it was used for ritual and meditation, North Indian raga and Dhrupad music. It has two dried gourd resonators and a body of bamboo with 24 wooden frets and 4 main, 2-3 secondary and one drone string.
• samica (solo serbo-croatian plucked lute) — Luth à long manche doté de deux doubles cordes.
• sanshin — Le sanshin est un instrument à trois cordes pincées sans frette japonais d’Okinawa constitué d’un corps recouvert de peau de serpent. Il est traditionnellement joué avec un plectre en corne porté à l’index.
• santoor (Traditional Indian dulcimer) — Ancient hammered dulcimer with trapezoid walnut or maple soundbox, 25 bridges each with 4 strings that are hit by special mallets called mezrab. Used in traditional, folk and mystic Sufi music.
• santûr (Persian/Iran hammered dulcimer) — Le santour, du moyen-orient
• sanxian — Le sanxian est un luth chinois à trois cordes.
• sarangi — Le sarangi est un instrument à cordes frottées à manche court d’Inde, du Népal et du Pakistan.
• Sarasvati vînâ (Ancient Carnatic veena lute) — Used in Carnatic tradition, named after goddess of art and music Saraswati, it is known since ancient times. Lute with a gourd sound resonator, it has 24 fixed frets, 7 steel strings (4 main & 3 drone)
• šargija — Le šargija est un luth à cordes pincées à long manche utilisé dans la musique folklorique des Balkans.
• sarod
• sasando (Indonesian tube zither) — Made of palmyra leaves that act as a resonator and a bamboo-tube stuck with wooden pegs where the plucked strings are attached, this traditional Indonesian instrument has an important place in folk history. It is still being used and modernised.
• satsuma biwa — Le satsuma biwa est un biwa à quatre cordes avec frettes popularisé durant la période d’Edo.
• saw duang — Le saw duang est un instrument à deux cordes utilisé dans la musique traditionnelle Thaï, constitué d’un résonateur en bois tendu d’une peau de serpent.
• saw sam sai — Le saw sam sai est instrument à trois cordes frottées de Thaïlande.
• saw u — Le saw u est un instrument Thaï à cordes frottées constitué d’un résonateur en noix de coco tendu d’une peau de vache.
• saz — Le saz est luth à manche long avec frettes. (Wikipédia)
• seni rebab (Medieval Indian evolution of the Afghan (kabuli) rabab) — Larger, with a longer neck than the kabuli rabab, it has a hide covered soundbox and wooden fingerboard with mostly gut strings, it was developed during medieval times by Tansen, who improved it and gave it metal sympathetic strings.
• setâr (Persian three-stringed long-necked lute) — Derived from the Indian tritantri veena by the Persian poet Amir Khusro sometime in 13th century, it had 3 (now 4) strings and a long neck. It later gave name to the Indian sitar.
• shamisen
• shichepshin — Le shichepshin est un instrument à cordes frottées traditionnel des peuples adyguéens.
• shudraga — Le shudraga est un luth mongol sans frette à trois cordes.
• sitar (Indian long-necked fretted gourdlute) — Soundbox made of gourd, it has 18-21 (6-7 on frets and 11-15 sympathetic under the frets) metal strings, two bridges and a long wooden neck where the tuning pegs of the sympathetic strings are attached. Used in India since ancient times, it flourished during the 16-17th before arriving at it's current form in the 18th century. It became popular worldwide in the 1950-60
• guitare en glissando
• violon soprano — Tuned a fourth above and about three quarters the size of a standard violin.
• spike-fiddle — Particular type of fiddle, long neck, often few strings and usually with a rather small soundbox, it has a spike at the end.
• épinette (A smaller harpsichord, strings at an angle) — Petit clavecin, dont les cordes sont souvent à 30 degrés par rapport au clavier.
• grande épinette (extralong spinet with deep bass register) — Epinette de longueur exceptionnelle, avec de nombreux jeux. Les bassessont obtenues par des fils, non plus gros, mais plus longs.
• steel guitar
• steel-string acoustic guitar (Modern acoustic steel string guitar) — Also know and "flat-top", it is a hollow-body acoustic guitar strung with steel strings.
• stick zither — Class of instruments where the body is a simple stick with one to many strings attached, may also have up to several usually gourd or wood resonators.
• cordes
• violon à pavillon (Horn-amplified violin) — Instead of a wooden body, it is amplified by a metal horn resonator; its louder and more directional sound made it useful in loud areas.
• instruments à cordes frappées
• suka — Le suka est un instrument de la famille des vièles, de Pologne, autrefois disparu.
• surbahar (Bass sitar) — Effectively a bass sitar, it has 4 main, 3-4 chikari(drone) and 10-11 resonance strings strung over a wide wooden neck. Made of flat-cut gourd with a possible secondary resonator (tumba) it was invented in 1825 by sitar-player Ghulam Mohammed who wanted a deeper sound.
• sursingar (19th century large North-Indian dhrupad bass-sarod) — Improved further by Jaffar Khan, it had a wooden soundboard, the fingerboard covered with iron and all strings are steel or bronze.
  Less common today, it was used for Dhrupad style music.
• swarmandal (North Indian trapezoid board zither) — Used chiefly in classical Indian songstyles Khyal and Thumri, it has a trapezoid shape with up to 40 metal strings fastened at both sides by iron pegs with one side having tuning keys.
• table steel guitar
• piano honky tonk — Le piano punaise est une version transformée de façon permanente d’un piano ordinaire, ayant des punaises ou des clous placés sur les marteaux en feutre de l’instrument à l’endroit où les marteaux frappent les cordes, donnant à l’instrument un petit son plus percutant.
• taishogoto (Japanese keyed box zither) — Developed in the early Taisho period to modernise the ningenkin, it has metal strings and typewriter like keys with a wooden lid over the frets.
• talharpa — Le talharpa est une lyre à quatre cordes frottées d’Europe du Nord principalement joué en Estonie.
• tambura (Macedonian/Bulgarian long-necked lute) — À ne pas confondre avec l’ensemble serbo-croate « tamburica » ou le drone indien « tanpura » ! Ancien instrument à cordes perse/turque descendant du « tanbur ».
• tanbur (Persian/Turkish ancient long-necked lute) — Ancêtre de nombreux instruments de type luth.
• piano à tangentes
• tanpura (Indian drone long-necked frettless gourdlute) — Accompagnant habituellement les ragas, ce luth indien se décline en deux tailles : la plus grande accompagnant le chant, la plus petite appelée « tanpuri » accompagnant le sitar.
• tar (lute) — Le târ est un luth à long manche avec un corps en forme de double cœur trouvé en Azerbaïdjan, Iran, Arménie, Géorgie et autres région proche du Caucase. Ne pas confondre avec le tar, un tambour.
• te kū (Māori taonga pūoro single string bow) — also just "kū", a mouthbow with a single string, struck with a light implement of bone or wood.
• banjo ténor (4 string tenor banjo) — Used as rhythm accompaniment, it has a shorter neck and 17-19 frets
• guitare ténor — Slightly smaller, four-string version of the steel-string acoustic guitar
• viole ténor (Tenor member of the viol family) — Tenor member of the viol family
• alto — Tuned an octave below the traditional violin and at about half the size of the cello, it has a range between the cello and the viola. It has a longer neck and thinner ribs than the cello.
• théorbe (Extended necked many-stringed lute) — Developed as an extended range bass-lute in Italy during the late sixteenth century, it has an extended neck with a second pegbox.
• tiple
• tololoche — Le tololoche est un instrument de musique traditionnel du nord du Mexique, plus petit mais similaire à la contrebasse.
• tonkori — Le tonkori est un instrument à cordes pincées joué par les Ainu du Nord du Japon et de Sakhaline.
• topshuur — Le topshuur est un luth à deux cordes de Mongolie et de Touva.
• piano jouet
• viole alto (Treble/soprano member of the viol family) — The treble, descant or soprano member of the viol family
• violon alto (Smallest member of the new violin family) — Tuned an octave above and about quarter the size of the traditional violin.
• tres
• tritantri vînâ (Indian medieval three-stringed stick zither) — Used in India during the medieval period, it had a stick-zither body with 3 strings
  For the the long necked lute called "tritantri veena" in the 19 century, see "sitar"
• trompette marine — Une trompette marine est un instrument triangulaire à corde frottée, utilisé dans l’Europe médiévale et de la Renaissance, comprenant un corps et un manche en forme de cône tronqué et reposant sur une base triangulaire.
• cithare tube — zither with a hollow or vaulted body, it can have several resonators
• tumbi — Le tumbi est un instrument aigu à une corde pincée associé à la musique folklorique du Punjab.
• tzoura
• ukeke — Arc musical hawaïen à cordes pincées, fait en bois de koa et long de 40 à 60 cm (16 à 24 po).
• ukulélé — L’ukulélé est un petit instrument ressemblant à une guitare associé habituellement à la musique hawaïenne. Il a généralement quatre cordes en nylon ou en boyaux.
• piano droit
• gardon (Hungarian percussion-viol) — Played in folk music of Hungary and Transylvanian regions, its 3-4 strings are plucked or struck with a stick, and its soundbox is made of thick maple, poplar or willow wood.
• valiha — Le vahila est une cithare en bambou de Madagascar.
• vichitra vînâ (Large North Indian fretless sliding tube zither) — Played like a slide guitar, it has two large gourd resonators with a teak body that often ends in carved peacock heads. Fretless, it has 4 main, 5 chikari and 13 resonance strings, slide is a glass orb named batta.
• vièle (Medieval violin)
• guitare vietnamienne — La guitare vietnamienne est similaire à la guitare normale, mais avec des touches scallopées donnant des frettes surélevées comme pour le đàn nguyệt.
• vihuela (Spanish string instrument.)
• alto (Alto of modern violin family) — It is known by many names, based on the full "alto de viola da braccio": "alto", "bratsch (braccio)", "viola", etc.
  It is the alto member of the modern violin family and a principal member of the symphony orchestra.
• viola caipira (Brazilian música caipira guitar) — Used in folk-music, It has ten steel strings in five courses.
• viole d’amour (Baroque fretless similar to both viols and violins.) — While it is fretless and played like the violins "a la braccia", it has a flat back, c-holes and sloping shoulders like a viol. From the baroque period, it has up to 14 strings.
• viole de gambe (Generic member of the viol family, Use for "Viol" Credits) — The Generic member of the viol family, use it for "Viol" credits, most viola da gamba credits are however the Bass Viol
• viola organista
• violon (Soprano of modern violin family) — The most famous member of the violin family, it is actually the "small viol". Its register is soprano and it's a principal member of the symphony orchestra.
• violino piccolo — Le violino piccolo est un instrument à cordes de la période baroque. La plupart de exemplaires sont semblables à un violon pour enfant et sont accordés un tiers ou un quart plus haut.
• viololyra (cretan lyra / violin hybrid) — Inspirés par le violon, les luthiers grecs ont imagine dans les années 1920cet hybride de lyre crétoise et de violon.
• violoncelle piccolo (for violoncello use "cello") — Baroque string instrument sized between the viola and cello, it typically has five strings.
• violone (Contra/double-bass member of the viol family) — Le violone, le plus grand et plus grave membre de la famille des violes
• violotta
• virginal — Le virginal est une sorte de clavecin rectangulaire plus petit et plus simple à seulement un note par corde.
• walaycho (Smallest member of charango family) — Smaller than the charango, it has 10 strings.
• Warr guitar
• washtub bass (Improvised monochord) — Consisting of a stick, a string and an resonator of various materials, it is used in many countries' low-cost and DIY cultures. It's technically a variable tension chordophone.
• harpe celtique
• xalam
• yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer) — It is related to similar hammered dulcimers in India, middle east and Europe.
• yatga — La yatga est une cithare à cordes pincées mongole traditionnelle semblable à la guzheng chinoise.
• yaylı tanbur (Turkish bowed lute) — Le yaylı tanbur est un luth à cordes frottées de Turquie dérivé de l’ancien tambûr à cordes pincées.
• yehu (southern coconut huqin) — Le yehu est un instrument à cordes frottées chinois de la famille des huqin, dont le résonateur est une noix de coco.
• yoochin (Mongolian wire-stringed hammered dulcimer) — Originally introduced to Mongolia from China, it has 13 double wire-strings and a black lacquered wooden soundboard. Traditionally it was only played by townspeople.
• yueqin (Traditional Chinese lute) — It has a short fretted neck originally with four silk but now usually nylon or steel strings, and large flat round body, earning it the nickname "moon lute"
• zhonghu (Alto huqin) — Le zhonghu est un instrument à cordes frottées chinois inspiré de l’erhu et accordé un quart ou un cinquième plus bas.
• zhongruan — Le zhongruan est un luth chinois à cordes pincées, le ténor de la famille des ruan.
• zhuihu (Wooden huqin) — Originating from Henan province, this fretless huqin has the accustomary two strings, but is made of wood.
• cithare

Instrument de percussion

• afoxé (Brazillian rattle-gourd) — Made of a gourd wrapped in a beaded net, it is used in Brazilian afoxé music.
• agogô — L’agogô est un instrument à une ou plusieurs cloches utilisé dans la samba avec des origines dans la musique traditionnelle Yoruba.
• akete (set of Nyabinghi drums) — Three-parts drumset (baandu, funde and kete) commonly used in Burru and Nyabinghi musics.
• alfaia — L’alfaia est un tambour cylindrique brésilien.
• amadinda — L’amadinda est un xylophone géant du sud de l’Ouganda, constitué de barres sonores de bois dur.
• aman khuur (mongolian mouth harp) — Guimbarde mongole, soit en métal (temür/tömör khuur), soit en bambou (khulsan khuur).
• angklung (Single pitch bamboo rattle xylophone used in Sundanese gamelan) — Usually consisting of 2-3 carved bamboo tubes suspended in a wooden or bamboo frame that is shook. It has been in use since ancient times by Sundanese peoples.
• ankle rattlers
• enclume (Tuned metal shape.) — Originally used just by blacksmiths, the crisp, clear tone produced was noticed by even early composers. In modern use, it is specifically made for music from tuned metal, sometimes placed in a resonator, and is struck with metal hammers.
• arrabel (Spanish bone scraper) — Scraper made of bones tied together with rope scraped with a conch-shell, in Catalonia it's scraped with a castanet. Ginebra is a variant made of cane.
• ashiko (cone shaped west african frame-drum) — Tambour sur cadre, de forme conique, provenant des Yorubas en Afrique de l’Ouest. Il se retrouve aussi dans les cultures afro-caribéennes et afro-latines en Amérique.
• atabaque — L’atabaque est un grand tambour à main brésilien.
• atarigane — L’atarigane est un gong japonais frappé avec une mailloche en corne de chevreuil.
• baandu (Nyabinghi bass drum) — Larger bass drum also known as thunder or pope smasher, it has a double goat skin membrane and is hit with a padded mallet. Important in the Jamaican Burru music and Rastafari movement, it is part of the Nyabinghi/Akete drums.
• balafon — Balafon, xylophone à calebasses du Mali.
• bangu (Traditional Chinese frame drum) — Widely used in folk music, opera and music ensembles, it can be round or cone-shaped with cow/pigskin nailed to the larger convex end which has a small hole (guxin).
• tambour tonneau
• grosse caisse
• batá (Double headed hourglass Nigerian drums) — Primarily in the religious rituals of the Yoruba and diaspora, these hourglass shaped drums have membranes on each end. Their names are largest to least: Iyá, Itótele, Okónkolo.
• bedug (Very large suspended Javanese barrel drum) — Extra large double-headed water buffalo hide barrel drum. It is suspended from a rack and beat with mallet, it is used in central Javanese gamelan and for religious signalling purposes in mosques.
• cloche (Tuned metal cups) — Cup or bellshaped bells, these are shook or struck.
• bell plate (Set of tuned metal plates used in western orchestra) — Used occasionally in the western classical orchestra and theatre, it consists of several tuned aluminium, steel or bronze plates, struck to imitate the sound of bells.
• bell tree — Un « bell tree » est un instrument de percussion constitué de bols en métal logés verticalement les uns dans les autres.
• bendir — Le bendir, un tambour sur cadre d’Afrique du Nord, sans cymbalette
• sonnette de vélo — Bell as found on bicycles, sound is made by internal spring loaded hammer, not unlike alarm-clock.
• binzasara — Le binzasara est un instrument à percussion japonais composé de plaquettes de bois reliées par un fort cordon de coton tressé, avec des poignées à chaque extrémité.
• bodhrán
• percussions corporelles — Des percussions produites en utilisant des parties du corps.
• bombo legüero (Andean bass-drum) — Used in folklore music of Andes, it is a descendant of European bass drum. It has a shoulder strap and two soft headed mallets used to strike the goat or llama pelt membrane.
• bonang (Family of bronze gong-chime sets used in Javanese gamelan) — Consisting of bossed bronze kettle-like gongs arranged in elaborately decorated wooden frames, these are hit with tabuh beaters.
• bonang barung (Medium pitched gong-chime set in Javanese gamelan) — One to two octaves below panerus, it plays elaborate melodies and is one of the most important instruments in the ensemble.
• bonang panembung (Lowest pitched gong-chime set in Javanese gamelan) — Chiefly used in Yogyvanese gamelan, the largest and deepest pitched member of the bonang family of gong-chimes
• bonang panerus (Highest pitched gong-chime set in Javanese gamelan) — Used to play fast melodies, it is the highest pitched member of the bonang family of gong-chimes
• os (Folk music idiophone) — Made of bone or wood, these are paired sticks of sonorous material used in folk music.
• bongos
• boobam (arrangement of bamboo tube-drums) — Pipes of bamboo with goat or calfskin membranes, the pitches depend largely on tube-lenght, it is the ancestor to the octoban. Modern variants are usually made of wood, plastic or metal with plastic membranes.
• boomwhacker (Tuned hollow plastic tubes) — Often used in group musical education and by street musicians, it consists of individual colourful hollow plastic tubes of various widths that are struck on various surfaces to produce sound, tubes can also be arranged and hit by mallets.
• balais
• buk — Le buk est un tambour coréen. Bien que buk soit un terme générique pour tambour, il fait normalement référence à un tambour en tonneau peu profond avec un corps en bois.
• cabasa (Modern wood and metal-bead shaker) — Developed from the African agbe, a small shaker not unlike shekere, it is made of wood and metal, with metal beads.
• caixa (Brazilian Samba snare-drum) — Traditionally used in samba and maracatu, it originates from the European military battalion. It is made of a 30-35 cm diameter metal barrel strung with a synthetic material, upon which a steel wire or guitar string is strung across.
• cajón — Le cajón, une caisse de résonance péruvienne
• calebasse — Made of dried gourd. Struck with hands or objects.
• calung (Bamboo xylophone used in Sundanese gamelan) — Made of multiple vertical hung bamboo tubes with segments cut out to create different pitch. They can be played either hanging suspended or on a bamboo frame like a xylophone.
  For the balinese metallophone sometimes known as chalung or calung, see jublag
• carillon (belfry tower bell set) — Set of many bronze bells, often mechanized and operated by keyboard, they are set in the bell tower (belfry) of important buildings.
  For the steel bar metallophone used from toy to orchestra, see glockenspiel.
  For the crank operated, revolving cylinder/disc plucked idiophone see music box.
• castagnettes (Pair of concave shells) — Pair of concave wood, bone, shell or even fibreglass shells, they are combined by a string and are often used by dancers.
• caxixi — Le caxixi est un idiophone originaire du Brésil constitué d’un petit panier en osier contenant des graines et autres petites particules.
• célesta (Struck metal plate keyboard instrument) — Similar to how a piano works, here keys operate hammers that strike metal plates, creating a soft bell sound.
• pavillon chinois (Ceremonial Ottoman jangle-staff) — Originating in Central Asia, it gained symbolic value to the Turks who used it in Ottoman marching-bands. It is 2-2,5 m long, has a bronze crescent shape with bells and jangles attached.
• chacha — le chacha, un hochet des Antilles
• chande — Le chenda (chande) est un tambour utilisé en musique traditionnelle ou classique du Sud de l’Inde.
• chap — Les chap sont une paire de cymbales utilisées dans la musique Thaï et Cambodgienne. Elles sont plus grandes, plus plates et plus minces que les cymbales appelées Ching.
• chau gong — Le chau gong est un grand gong en cuivre ou en bronze qui est presque plat, excepté pour le bord.
• lame sur résonateur (Individual percussion plates.) — Despite the name, it is not a chime but instead consists of tuned metal bars each on individual resonator boxes.
  It is similar to glockenspiel.
  For the instrument called bar chimes, see chimes.
• carillon tubulaire (Arrangement of hanging struck tuned metal rods.) — 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 instrument used in orchestra, see tubular bells.
• ching — Les ching sont une paire de petites cymbales à main utilisées dans la musique Thaï et Cambodgienne.
• clapper (egyptian ancient clappers) — Made of wood, bone or metal, this ancient instrument is the forerunner to many other struck idiophones
• clapstick (Ancient Aboriginal rhythm stick) — Used by Australian Aboriginals to maintain rhythm in chants and traditionally to accompany didgeridoo. There are also Boomerang clapsticks.
• claves
• idiophone à concussion — Generally consists of two completely equal or somewhat unsymmetrical sticks, plates, shells or similar hit together.
• congas
• cowbell (Tuned metal bell) — Metal bell used in various genres, it is often attached to drum kit
• Cristal Baschet
• crotales
• cuica (Brazilian friction-drum) — Originating in Africa, it is used in carnivals and samba music. Consisting of a wooden or metal barrel, its single membrane has a tuning-stick attached.
• tambour cylindrique — Un tambour cylindrique est un tambour droit et généralement à deux têtes.
• cymbale — Divers types de cymbales, aussi appelées chũm chọe
• daf — Le daf est un grand tambour sur cadre utilisé dans la musique populaire et classique iranienne. Le cadre est habituellement en bois avec une guirlande d’anneaux en métal, et la membrane est habituellement en peau de chèvre.
• doyre — Une version plus grande du tef, utilisé pour les structures rythmiques (usul) de la musique makam.
• daluo — Le daluo est un grand gong plat chinois dont la hauteur s’abaisse lorsqu’il est frappé avec une mailloche.
• darbouka — Le darbouka est un tambour en gobelet venant de Grèce, du Moyen-Orient et d’Inde.
• davul — Le davul, un tambour turc
• dhôl — Tambour à deux têtes d’Inde.
• dholak — Le dholak est un tambour à main de l’Inde du Nord.
• djembé
• dohol — Le dohol est un grand tambour cylindrique utilisé en Iran et en Afghanistan.
• doyre
• batterie (Set of drums in modern music) — Set of drums developed from the 1930's onward, it is used in Jazz, Swing, Rock and Pop music. It consists of snare drum, tom-toms, hi-hats, cymbals and bass drum.
• duggi (indian clay kettle drum) — fait de terre cuite avec deux peaux de chèvre tendues, il est utilisé en accompagnement rythmique des joueurs de shehnai et fait partie des instruments de la communauté Baul.
• dulcitone (Acoustic keyboard tuning fork idiophone) — Like a piano, but here keyed hammers hit tuning forks.
• dum dum — Les dum dum sont une famille de tambours cylindriques de l’Afrique de l’Ouest.
• batterie électronique
• sagattes
• claquements de doigts
• foot stomps — Percussion performed with feet, such as foot tapping and clogging.
• tambour sur cadre
• tambour à friction
• idiophone frotté — Les idiophones frottés sont des idiophones dont le son est produit par friction de l’instrument.
• frottoir (Zydeco vest scraper) — Dispenses with the frame altogether, and is worn as a vest, it is played with spoons or bottle openers.
• fundeh (Nyabinghi middle pitch drum) — Middle size/pitch drum, it has a slack goat skin membrane and it is hit with the palms. Important in the Jamaican Burru music and Rastafari movement, it is part of the Nyabinghi/Akete drums.
• gambang (Indonesian wood box-resonated xylophone) — Consists of up to 21 hardwood bars suspended by pins and rope over an oft ornate wooden trapeze shaped box, the two springy beaters are made of buffalo horn.
• gankogui — Le gankogui, une cloche de fer
• ganzá (Brazilian samba shaker) — Used in various performances (capoeira angola, caboclo, etc) and samba music, it is usually made of metal and filled with grains, pebbles or the like.
• tambour garifuna — Important to the Garifuna culture, it consists of two drums, the tenor, primero and the bass, segunda, each is made of hollowed out wood with membranes of pig, sheep or deer.
• gendèr barung (Middle pitch metallophone used in Javanese gamelan) — Used for elaborate and complex parts, it has thinner but wider metal bars suspended above resonator rods, it is the middle-pitched member of the gendèr family.
• gendèr panerus (Higest pitch metallophone used in Javanese gamelan) — Used for simple ornamentation, it has thick small metal bars suspended above resonator rods, it is the highest pitched member of the gendèr family.
• gendèr wayang (Ten key metallophone used in Bali wayang.) — Special version of the gendèr used in Gamelan gendèr wayang performances. Tuned in Slendro, one to two pairs are played using the same hand to both play and dampen the keys.
• ghatam (South Indian Carnatic percussion)
• armonica de verre (Glass bowls mounted on spindle) — Taking the concept of musical glasses but mounting the incrementing bowls on a turnable spindle, it is played with damp fingers.
• verrillon (Musical Glasses) — Known in Persia as far back as the 14th century, it consists of glass containers, tuned by either being filled with water or later being of different sizes. Played by rubbing dampened fingers on the rims.
• glockenspiel — Common and popular metallophone, usually an arrangement of metal keys or slabs on a wooden resonator box.
  For the instrument often used in bell towers, see carillon.
  For the instrument called orchestra bell/chime in some languages, see tubular bells.
• darbouka — Les tambours en gobelet sont des membranophones à une tête dont le corps est en forme de gobelet.
• gong (Tuned metal discs)
• tambour gong — Un tambour gong basse est un grand tambour à une seule membrane qui ressemble à un gong.
• gong-chime (Arrangement of kettle shaped gongs) — Chiefly used in Southeast Asian music, these consist of from only 1 to several dozens of metal (often bronze) "kettles", set in a wide variety of different supports and played with mallets.
• gramorimba
• güira (Dominican metal scraper) — Made of metal with many small notches scraped with a brush or hair pick, it is used in Merengue típico.
• güiro (Latin American gourd scraper) — Made of gourd or wood, it is used as a scraper in Latin American music
• handbell (Open hand-rung bell) — Open in one end, it has a strap to hold while ringing.
• battements de mains
• handpan (Tuned metal ufo) — Invented initially as the Hang, it is made of two tuned metal convex pans glued together creating an UFO shape.
• charleston — Un charleston fait habituellement partie d’une batterie, et consiste d’une paire de cymbales montées sur un pied.
• tambour en forme de sablier
• hue puruwai (Māori taonga pūoro shaking gourd) — Sistre fait de courges remplies de graines.
• hyoshigi (Japanese concussion idiophone) — Used in traditional kabuki and bunraku theatre, it consists of two hardwood pieces tied together with ornamental cord.
• idiophone — Un idiophone est un instrument de musique dont la vibration de l’instrument entier crée le son, sans corde ou membrane.
• janggo — Le changgo, aussi janggo est un tambour à deux têtes en forme de sablier, le plus utilisé dans la musique traditionnelle coréenne.
• jegogan (Deepest pitch gangsa used in Balinese gamelan) — Largest and lowest pitched of the gangsa, it has 5 to 7 large metal bars suspended over long bamboo resonators
• jing — Le jing est un large gong utilisé dans la musique traditionnelle coréenne.
• jublag (Second deepest pitch gangsa used in Balinese gamelan) — Second lowest pitched of the gangsa, it has 4 to 7 bronze keys suspended over long bamboo resonators
  For the sundanese bamboo xylophone also used in gamelan, see calung
• junjung (Sacred royal Serer war drum) — Sacred cylindrical goat or cattle rawhide drum, traditionally it was held with straps or placed on a stand and played horizontally while walking to battle, on special state occasions and religious ceremonies.
• kanjira (South Indian frame drum.)
• kantilan (High pitch gangsa used in Balinese gamelan) — Highest pitched gangsa, it has 10 brass or bronze keys suspended over short resonating bamboo pipes set in an heavily ornate case.
• kartal — Le kartal est un instrument de percussion avec des clochettes, joué avec les mains, utilisé principalement dans la musique folklorique Kirtane, Bhajane et rajasthanie.
• kecer (Indonesian racked cymbals) — Used in both gamelan and Wayang puppet theatre, it consists of two small cymbals sets; the bottom pair affixed in a highly decorated rancak rack, their lose counterparts attached together by string.
• kemanak (Banana shaped bronze slit-drum used in javanese gamelan) — Bent into a ladle or banana like shape, it is a pair of bronze slit-drums hit with tabuh beaters.
• kempli (Singular metal timekeeping gong-chime used in Balinese gamelan) — Singular bronze gong-chime kettle set on a decorated jackfruit-wood box stand. Used as time or tempo keeper, it is struck on the boss with panggul beater, which provides reference point in the pokok.
• kempul (Javanese hanging gong-set) — Set of 6 to 10 smaller hanging pitched bronze gongs with a protruding centre knob struck with tabuh beaters. Higher pitched than the gong ageng, it is often hung together with it.
• kempyang (Small boxed double gong-chime used in Javanese gamelan) — Always used with ketuk, it consists of two bronze kettle-gongs, pitched a note apart. Ached top bossed gongs are sat in the highly decorated rancak frame, beaten with tabuh beaters by the same person.
• kendang (Family of two sided laced drums used in various gamelan) — Used in many Southeast Asian countries, the body is made of woods like jackfruit or coconut, the heads of buffalo- and goat-hide.
  There are 2 main groups:
  
  • The Java/Sunda set of 3 to 4 curve sided drums with heads of different sizes.
  • The Bali set of two pairs of straight sided drums, both heads same size.
• kendang lanang (High pitched cylindrical kendang used in Bali gamelan.) — The smaller and higher pitched of the Bali kendang, it is the follower "male" drum.
• kendang wadon (Low pitched cylindrical kendang used in Bali gamelan.) — The larger and deeper pitched of the Bali kendang, it is the leader "female" drum.
• kendhang batangan (Middle conical kendang used in both Javanese/Sundanese gamelan) — Middle sized kendang, it is used in lively and complex rhythms.
  In Sunda it is known as kendhang ciblon
• kendhang gendhing (Largest conical kendang used in both Javanese/Sundanese gamelan) — Largest or "ageng" of the kendang, it is still smaller than the bedug.
  In Sunda it is known as kendhang gedé.
• kendhang indung (King-Size truncated cone kendang used in Sundanese gamelan) — Played in ensemble with kulanter, it is set at an angle and played with hands or sticks. it has the designation of "mother"
• kendhang ketipung (Smallest conical kendang used in both Javanese/Sundanese gamelan) — Smallest of the kendang, it is has a special two-instrument use with the gendhing.
  In Sunda it is known as kendhang katipung
• kendhang kulanter (Paired truncated cone kendang used in Sundanese gamelan) — Always used together with the indung, dual child drums are divided into the katipung ("besar" or larger) and the kutiplak ("kecil" or smaller).
• kendhang wayangan (Middle conical kendang used in javanese gamelan) — Middle sized kendang, it was traditionally used for the wayang dance.
• kenong (Large high-pitch gong-chime used in Indonesian Gamelan) — Related to bonang, it consists of 3 decorated rancak frames that each hold 2 large arched(jaler) bronze gong-chimes hit by heavy tabuh beater(s).
• kepyak (Metal plate percussion used in Javanese gamelan) — Used in wayang puppetry, it is made of 1 to 4 iron (sometimes bronze) plates hung by strings, The puppeteer uses a small mallet set in the foot to hit the plate(s).
• kethuk (Small boxed gong-chime used in Javanese gamelan) — Always used with kempyang, it consists of a single bronze kettle-gong, pitched deeper than kempyangs'. Flat top bossed gong is sat in a highly decorated rancak frame, beaten with tabuh beaters by the same person.
• timbales
• khong wong — Le khong wong est un cercle de gongs composé de plusieurs gongs arrangés sur un cadre rattan circulaire. Le musicien est assis au milieu.
• khong wong lek — Le khong wong lek est un cercle de gongs utilisé dans la musique classique thaï. Il comporte 18 gongs accordés et est plus petit et plus aigu que le khong wong yai.
• khong wong yai — Le khong wong yai est un cercle de gongs utilisé dans la musique de Thaïlande. Il comporte 16 gongs accordés est est plus grand et plus grave que le khong wong lek.
• khulsan khuur (bamboo mongolian jew's harp) — Guimbarde mongole en bambou, traditionnellement jouée par les filles.
• kkwaenggwari — Le kkwaenggwari est un petit gong plat en cuivre, habituellement de 20 cm (3 po) de diamètre, qui est utilisé principalement dans la musique folklorique coréenne.
• klong khaek — Le klong khaek est un tambour tonneau à double tête de Thaïlande. Les têtes sont de tailles différentes.
• klong song na — Le klong song na est un tambour tonneau de Thaïlande. On en joue avec les mains et il est utilisé dans l’ensemble Piphat.
• klong that — Les Klong sont des tambours tonneaux de Thaïlande. Ils sont joués en paire en utilisant des baguettes en bois et apparaissent dans l’ensemble Piphat.
• klong yao — Le klong yao est un tambour gobelet de Thaïlande qui est utilisé décoré d’une jupe haute en couleurs.
• kös — Un instrument de percussion turc utilisé dans les troupes de musique militaire ottomane
• kotsuzumi — Le kotsuzumi ou simplement tsuzumi est un tambour à deux têtes en forme de sablier avec des cordes qui peuvent être tirées ou libérées pour augmenter ou diminuer la tension des têtes.
• qraqeb — Les Qraqeb sont de grands instruments en métal semblables à des castagnettes et qui sont la composante rythmique principale de la musique Gnawa.
• krap khū (Thai bamboo concussion sticks) — Used in folk music, bamboo is split into a pair of 40 cm long sticks which are hit together.
• krap phuang (Thai wood/brass clappers) — Used in royal ceremonies, played by striking against the palm, it is made of several pieces of wood, ivory and sheets of brass between two larger pieces of wood tied together by a string at one end.
• krap sēphā (Thai bevelled wood rhythm-sticks) — Used in the chant, sēphā, a pair of squared bevelled rosewood sticks around 21 cm long and 3-4 cm thick.
• kudüm — Paire de petits tambours hémisphériques.
• lamellophone — Les lamellophones sont une famille d’instruments musicaux composés d’une ou plusieurs longues et minces lamelles qui sont fixées d’un côté et libres de l’autre. Le coté libre est frappé, causant la vibration de la lamelle.
• lithophone (Arrangement of struck tuned stone bars.)
• madal — Le madal, tambour à percussions digitales du Népal
• maddale — Le maddale est un tambour à deux têtes du Karnataka en Inde. C’est l’accompagnement rythmique de base du Yakshagana.
• maracas
• marimbaphone
• marimbula — La marímbula est un lamellophone des Caraïbes.
• Mark tree (Mark Stevens' bar chime) — Solid metal (often aluminium) rods hanging on a bar, set at an inharmonic pitch.
• mbira — Le mbira ou kalimba (aussi connu sous d’autres noms) est un piano à pouces africain.
• membranophone — Any kind of instrument with membranes, usually variously sized drums.
• mendoza (Traditional English percussion stick) — Homemade combination of a wooden pole with beer bottle tops as jingles and a hefty boot at the bottom to create thumping bass, it is often decorated with hats or hair.
• môrsing (Indian mouth harp) — Indian mouth harp, played in Carnatic and Rajastani folk music.
• mouth harp (Family of mouth plucked idiophones) — Plucked by the mouth, it consists of a characteristically shaped frame with a metal or bamboo reed (tine). There are many variants around the world.
• mridangam — Le mridangam est un tambour à deux têtes d’Inde.
• mukkuri (Ainu mouth harp) — Ingenious to the Ainu, it is made of bamboo with a string that vibrated creates sound.
• boîte à musique
• nagadou-daiko — Le nagadou-daiko est un tambour-tonneau japonais allongé.
• naobo — Chinese cymbals specially used in the Beijing opera.
• tambour d’océan
• octoban (racked 4 or 8 tom-toms) — Small but long tom-toms set in groups of four or eight, they are a common addition in drumsets. Originally made of fibreglass, today also acrylic, aluminium or wood is used, and homemade ones of f.ex PVC are not uncommon.
• ōtsuzumi — L’ōtsuzumi est un tambour japonais en forme de sablier, plus grand que le kotsuzumi.
• pahū (Māori taonga pūoro large signalling drum) — Bûches ou planches de bois de près de 9 m, utilisées pour donner l'alerte,comme les gongs. Même des troncs creux ont servi de pahū.
• pahū pounamu (Māori taonga pūoro gong made of jade and bone) — Gong fait d'une variété de jade (pounamou) et d'os de dauphin, avec une baguetteen bois exotique de bonne dureté, l'akeake.
• paiban (Ancient Chinese clapper) — Made of sandalwood or bamboo, 2 blocks are tied together with a string, a third with a ribbon. Part of the drum and clapper ensemble guban, but confusingly, the clapper alone can also be called guban.
• pakhawaj (Dhrupad wooden two-headed barrel-drum) — Used in Hindustani dhrupad, this two-headed barrel-drum is tuned like its descendant the tabla.
• pākuru (Māori taonga pūoro tapping sticks) — Two rods, one is held in the mouth, which works as a resonance chamber while chanting and singing, the other is used for tapping and scraping, creating rhythm.
• pātē — Le pātē est un tambour à fente polynésien constitué d’un tronc de bois creusé et évidé.
• pemade (Lower pitch gangsa used in Balinese gamelan) — Second highest pitched gangsa, it is deeper than the kantil but also has 10 brass or bronze keys suspended over short resonating pipes set in an heavily ornate case.
• percussions — Very wide grouping, played by hitting directly aka idiophones and membranophones (from drums to xylophones). Use the closest approximate instrument possible for credits, use percussion with a credit if no better can be found and create an instrument ticket if necessary.
• idiophone à percussion — Generally consists of one to very many plates, sticks, or other objects hit with (or against) various types of mallets.
• phách — Les Phách sont de petites baguettes de bois frappées sur une petit morceau de bambou ou un bloc de bois. Le son produit sert à garder la mesure.
• pkhachich — Le pkhachich est un idiophone secoué traditionnel des peuples adyguéens.
• idiophone pincé — Plucked idiophones have spikes, nails or flexible tongues ("lamellae") that are plucked in various ways to produce sound.
• poï (Māori taonga pūoro flax leaf balls used in dancing) — Bogues de lins remplies de graines, que l'on fait tourner pour produire divers motifsrhythmiques ou visuels. La danse exécutée par l'interprète, ou poi, joue un grand rôle.
• primero (Tenor garifuna drum) — Tenor member of the garifuna drum group.
• kilaut — Le kilaut est un tambour inuit fait en peau de caribou tendue sur un cadre pourvu d’une poignée.
• quijada (Jawbone rattle) — Made of equusine jawbone, it is used in traditional Latin-american music as a rattle.
• quinto
• bâton de pluie
• rammana — Le rammana est un tambour sur cadre utilisé dans la musique classique Thaï et cambodgienne. Il forme une partie du <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thon_and_rammana">thon et rammana.
• ranat ek — Le ranat ek est un xylophone thaïlandais composé de 21 lames de bois suspendues par des cordes au-dessus d’un résonateur en forme de bateau et qui sont frappées au moyen de deux mailloches.
• ranat kaeo — Le ranat kaeo est un instrument Thaï semblable au xylophone, mais dont les lames de différentes longueurs sont en verre.
• ranat thum — Le ranat thum est un xylophone thaïlandais composé de 18 lames de bois suspendues par des cordes au-dessus d’un résonateur en forme de bateau. Il est semblable au ranat ek, mais plus grave.
• crécelle
• reco-reco (Brazilian metal scraper) — Originally made of bamboo or wood, it is now metal with springs and is used in Brazilian music.
• repeater (Nyabinghi smaller pitch drum) — Also known as kette or keteh, it is the smallest size/pitch drum. It has a tight goat skin membrane and it is struck with the fingertips. Important in the Jamaican Burru music and Rastafari movement, it is part of the Nyabinghi/Akete drums.
• repinique — Le repinique est un tambour cylindrique du Brésil.
• reyong (Gong-chime used in Balinese gamelan) — Set of 4 to 12 small metal gongs suspended in a string carriage, played by two to four players.
• piano électrique Rhodes (Electric keyboard tuning fork idiophone)
• bâtons de rythmes
• riqq — Le riqq est un type de tambourin utilisé comme instrument traditionnel dans la musique arabe.
• rōria (Māori taonga pūoro mouth harp) — thin quiet mouth harp like instrument made of wood or bone.
• rototom — Le rototom est un tambour sans fût accordé par rotation.
• sabar — Le sabar est un tambour du Sénégal habituellement joué d’une main ou avec une baguette. Le corps est un cylindre allongé avec des embouts effilés. La tête est en peau de chèvre et est attachée au corps par des chevilles.
• saron barung (Middle pitch saron-family member used in Sundanese gamelan.) — Often called simply "saron", it plays the basic, balungan melody
• saron demung (Penultimate pitch saron-family member used in Sundanese gamelan.) — Called simply "demung", it is the largest and deepest pitched of the regular saron.
• saron family (Family of Sundanese metallophones) — Part of the Sundanese gamelan, these consist of a decorated wood resonator (rancak) upon which is resting six to nine thick, smooth, bronze or iron keys that are hit with mallets of hard wood or buffalo horn.
  
  The saron family consists of the smallest member; saron panerus, the middle pitch member; saron barung and the largest member; sarong demung. Additionally, the largely obsolete slentho (which has been subsumed by the slenthem) is even deeper than the demung and the saron peking, which is a special slendro variant is even higher than the panerus, of which it shares an overlapping range. Finally the saron wayang is used in wayang performances.
• saron panerus (Highest pitch saron-family member used in Sundanese gamelan.) — Called simply "panerus", it has seven bronze keys resting on a decorated rancak box. Keys are hit by tabuh mallet with head of buffalo horn.
• saron peking (Highest pitch saron-family member.) — Similar to panerus with which it has a different but overlapping range, it has 6 bronze keys tuned for the slendro key.
• saron wayang (Special saron used for Wayang puppetry) — Used in the Javanese Wayang puppet theatre, it has nine large bronze keys set in a decorated frame.
• idiophone raclé
• segunda (Bass garifuna drum) — Bass member of the garifuna drum group.
• sênh tiền — Le sênh tiền est un instrument à percussion vietnamien constitué de trois morceaux de bois avec une cliquette, des cymbalettes et de vieilles pièces de monnaie chinoises attachées par des cordes.
• idiophone secoué — Shaken idiophone or rattle. Sound is produced by holding or containing usually small concussing parts.
• shakers (Latin-American tube rattle) — Tube made of metal or bamboo, it is filled with seeds, pebbles or sand. Especially used in Latin American music, it is shaken rhythmically to produce sound.
• chekeré (Large West African gourd-shaker) — West African gourd-shaker, a net of beads covers it.
• shime-daiko — Le shime-daiko est un petit tambour japonais à corps court mais large plus aigu qu’un taiko normal.
• bol chantant
• sistre (Ancient Egyptian rattle) — Used in sacred rituals, it is made of metal or clay rattle with metal discs which jangle when shook.
  Not to be confused with the West African calabash sistrum or disc rattle (n'goso m'bara)
• slenthem (Deepest pitch single octave metallophone used in Javanese gamelan) — Used in Javanese gamelan, the 6(slendro)-7(pelog) bronze keys beat by a disk mallet(tabuh) are suspended above individual tube metal/bamboo resonators set in a 75 cm long wooden frame.
• slentho (Obsolete deepest saron-family member used in Sundanese gamelan.) — Unlike the other saron, its six-seven keys are not smooth, but bevelled or bossed, like the gendèr and the slenthem, which has largely replaced it in the modernised gamelan.
• tambour à fente (Hollow wooden idiophone) — Made of hollowed out wood or bamboo, it has incisions or slits as soundholes. Slit drums are among the most ancient and earliest instruments.
• caisse claire
• song loan — Le song loan est un instrument à percussion traditionnel vietnamien constitué d’un corps creux en bois (environ 7 cm (3 po) de diamètre) rattaché à une pièce souple en métal terminée par une boule en bois.
• cuillères
• steelpan
• idiophone frappé — Struck idiophone are ones where sound comes from striking the instrument and it as a whole vibrates, without the use of strings or membranes. Therefore these are most often made of sonorous material: metal, wood, glass and even stone.
• surdo — Le surdo est un grand tambour basse utilisé dans la musique brésilienne, principalement la samba.
• t’rưng — Le t’rưng (t’rung) est un xylophone en bambou des hautes plaines centrales du Vietnam qui est joué par des groupes ethniques tels les Bahnar et les Ê Đê.
• tabla — Le tabla est un tambour à main utilisé dans la musique classique hindoustanie et les musiques traditionnelles d’Inde, du Pakistan, d’Afghanistan, du Népal, du Bangladesh et du Sri Lanka.
• tambourin (one-handed sidedrum) — Side drum, often with one or more snares, worn by one person and beaten by one hand, it is often combined with tabor pipes.
• taiko — Un tambour traditionnel japonais utilisé avec des baguettes appelées « bachi ».
• tama
• tamborim — Le tamborim est un petit tambour sur cadre du Brésil.
• tambourin
• tanbou ka — Le tanbou ka ou tambu ka (petit tambour à son aigu)
• tap dance — Les claquettes sont un style de danse dans lequel le danseur porte des chaussures spéciales ferrées produisant un son quand les pieds du danseur frappent le sol.
• taphon — Le taphon est un tambour tonneau traditionnel de Thaïlande.
• tar (drum) — Le tar est un tambour sur cadre du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient.
• tef — Une version turque du tambourin / daf, en peau d’animal et à percussion digitale.
• blocs chinois
• temür khuur (steel mongolian jew's harp) — Guimbarde mongole en métal, traditionnellement jouée dans les rituels chamaniques.
• thavil
• le Great Stalacpipe Organ (electrically actuated lithophone) — Located in the Luray Caverns of Virginia USA, it is made of an electric console wired to mallets striking thirty-seven stalactites producing tones. This is a singular specific instrument, not an instrument type.
• thon — Le thon est un tambour en gobelet avec un corps en céramique ou en bois utilisé dans la musique classique thaïlandaise et cambodgienne.
• ti bwa — le ti bwa, instrument de percussion fait d’un morceau de bambou horizontal frappé avec des baguettes
• tambour à eau tibétain
• timbales
• timbale classique — Cymbales
• tinya — Le tinya est un petit tambour utilisé dans la musique traditionnelle des Andes.
• tōkere (Māori taonga pūoro castanets) — Les castagnettes peuvent être en bois ou en os, faites de deux coquillages ou de feuilles de lin.
• tom — Un Tom est un tambour cylindrique sans timbre faisant habituellement partie d’une batterie.
• triangle (Tuned metal shape) — Tuned metal bar, bent into triangle shape.
• trống bông — Le trống bông est un tambour vietnamien en bois à une seule membrane qui est joué avec les deux mains.
• carillon tubulaire (Orchestral chimes) — Larger orchestral version of chimes, closed top hollow metal tubes are set in a stand with a damper operated by pedals, they are tuned at a definite pitch and played with mallets.
• tubulum (PVC pipe instrument) — Invented (or atleast made popular by) Blue Man Group, it is made of alternating length PVC pipes and hit with sticks or flaps. It is popular with street musicians.
• tumutumu (Māori taonga pūoro ancient struck idiophone) — Made of resonating stone, wood or bone with a striker of stone, bone or hardwood, this ancient instrument was used for rhythm during chanting.
• txalaparta (Traditional Basque idiophone) — Traditionally consisting of two long wooden planks with corn-husks attached for vibration and hit with long, thick sticks called Makilak, today the planks are shorter and can be made of many other materials like stone, wood or metal and are hit with shorter, lighter sticks.
• machine à écrire — Besides being used for writing, it has also been used in percussion.
• udu (Nigerian clay jug idiophone) — Played ceremonially by Igbo people, it is a clay jug beaten with hands to create sounds.
• ugal (Deep pitch gangsa used in Balinese gamelan) — Even lower pitched than the pemade , it also has 10 bronze keys suspended over tuned bamboo resonators that the player hits with a small hammer, often in a theatrical manner. It is the leader of the pokok melody.
• vibraphone
• vibraslap
• washboard (American scraped idiophone) — Typical metal ribbed tool used for washing, still in it's wooden frame, often has is additional noisemakers attached, such as cowbell or woodblock. It is played with thimbles as plectrum.
• waterphone
• whipslap (Hinged percussion) — Consisting of two parts joined together by a hinge, it creates a whip-like sound when clacked together.
• carillon éolien (Wind played chimes) — It differs from other chimes by addition of pendulum(s), such to be worked by wind, the sonorous parts can be rods, bells or other shapes of metal, wood, glass or ceramic.
  Often decorated, it is seen as a good luck charm.
• bloc de bois
• bloc de temple (wooden bell used in temples) — Highly stylised wooden block-bell, it is used in religious ritual. Its prototype, fish board (gyoban) is more obviously shaped like a fish.
• piano électrique Wurlitzer — Le piano électrique Wurlitzer est un piano électrique dont les anches plates de métal sont frappées par des marteaux en feutre.
• xiaoluo — Le xiaoluo est un petit gong plat chinois dont la hauteur augmente lorsqu’il est frappé avec la tranche d’une baguette plate en bois.
• xylophone (Arrangement of struck tuned wooden bars.)
• xylorimba (Extended range xylophone) — Member of the xylophone family, it has 5 octaves.
• yonggo (Korean traditional dragon-painted barrel drum) — Used in the traditional Korean music daechwita, it consists of a large two headed wooden barrel painted with dragon designs.
• yu (wooden tiger scraped with bamboo whisk) — From atleast 600 BC, it is made of wood to resemble a tiger with its spine made into notches. Notches are scraped to produce sound, it was used in ensemble with zhu.
• zabumba — Le zabumba est un tambour basse du Brésil.
• żafżafa — Le żafżafa ou rabbaba est un tambour à friction maltais constitué d’un fût cylindrique (en fer, poterie ou bois) couvert par une peau d’animal auquel est attachée un long roseau en arundo donax. (Wikipédia)
• tombak — Le zarb est un tambour-gobelet d’Iran.
• sagattes (Eastern Mediterranean finger cymbals) — Known since ancient times in south-east Europe and Turkey, small bronze finger cymbals are used for dancing and other performances. These are similar to the jingles set in some frame drums.

Instrument électronique

• synthétiseur analogique (uses analogue circuits to produce sound) — utilise des circuits et techniques analogiques pour produire électroniquement des sons, les premiers types furent créés dans les années 1920 avec des valves thermoïonique et autres machineries électromécaniques.
• pédales basses
• synthétiseur basse — Un synthétiseur basse est utilisé pour créer des sons dans la gamme des basses.
• Chamberlin (electromechanical piano)
• clavioline (electronic keyboard, forerunner to analogue synthesizers) — an early analogue synthesizer, it had a vacuum tube oscillator and high/low pass filtering to produce vibrato
• continuum
• Denis d’or
• disque dur — comme utiliser des lecteurs pour faire de la musique, disques durs, lecteurs de disquettes, CD ou autres.
• drum machine (drum programming)
• Stylophone Dubreq
• ebow
• instruments électroniques
• orgue électronique
• elektronium (electronic keyboard accordion) — in the form of a piano accordion, the keys control the output, pitch and sound, bellows control only volume. Sold by Hohner since 1952, it has gone through many modernisations through the years.
• EWI instrument à vent électronique — Un EWi (anglais : electronic wind instrument) est un instrument à vent électronique permettant de piloter un synthétiseur.
• orgue farfisa
• lecteur de disquette — Lecteurs de disquettes réglés pour produire des tonalités durant la lecture, un logiciel est utilisé.
• puce audio de console de jeu (sound chip from gaming consoles) — Sound chip from various video game consoles, computers and similar, used for music, chiefly in bitunes and chiptunes
• synthétiseur pour guitare — Tout type de système permettant à un guitariste de jouer des sons de synthétiseur.
• Guitaret (electric lamellophone) — Petit piano à pouces électrique blanc équipé de lamelles métalliques et d’un capteur électromagnétique.
• flageolet (el guitar / el organ hybrid) — Inventée en 1966 par vox et en 1969 Bob Murrell, cette guitare électriqueest câblée à un orgue électronique et comporte des touches.
• orgue Hammond
• disque dur — Disque dur configuré pour produire des tonalités organisées.
• clavier (electronic or digital keyboard)
• clavier basse
• keytar (Shoulder-strapped electric keyboard) — Made portable with a shoulder-strap like a guitar, electric keyboard has soundcontrols on the neck
• harpe laser — La harpe laser est un instrument électronique constitué de plusieurs rayons laser devant être interrompus, tel le pincement des cordes de la harpe, afin de produire du son.
• Lyricon — Le lyricon est un instrument électronique à vent.
• Marimba Lumina — MIDI controller with a marimba-layout inspired control deck
• mellotron (An electromechanical piano)
• Minimoog
• Moog
• omnichord
• ondes Martenot
• ondioline (early analogue synth with various sounds and "vibrato" keyboard) — Un des premiers synthétiseurs analogiques, comportant une banque de filtres à 15 coulisses pour produire des sons différents, et un « vibrato » induit par un clavier comparable aux Ondes Martenot.
• otamatone (Toy synthesizer) — Shaped like an eighth-note with a cute face, it is played with one hand fingering the neck and the other squeezing the head to create wavering sound.
• Pianet (an electromechanical piano) — Piano électromécanique (qui ne doit pas être confondu avec le piano électronique) conçu et produit par Hohner dans les années 1960 et les années 1970.
• reactable — La réactable est un instrument électronique constitué d’une table ronde translucide sur laquelle des blocs sont placés.
• échantillonneur
• string synthesizer (60-80's electronic string-ensemble emulator) — Developed from the 1960's and used mainly in the 70-80's, it was a cheaper and more portable simplification of the mellotron, emulating string ensembles. Its later hybrid development with the electronic organ created "polyphonic ensemble" synthesizers.
• synclavier
• syntétiseur
• telharmonium (gigantic electronic organ transmitted through telephone wires.) — Ancêtre de l’orgue électronique, considéré comme le premier instrument de musique électromécanique.
• thérémine
• trautonium (monophonic electric instrument from 1930's) — Instrument électrique analogique des années 1930 doté d'un fil résistifet d'une frette.
• Tubon (analogue electronic monophonic Organ) — Orgue électronique basse proto-keytar.
• vocodeur
• synthétiseur vocal
• wavedrum
• synthétiseur à vent (synthesizer played like a wind instrument) — Le synthétiseur d'instruments à vent est câblé à une console midiet se joue comme un instrument à vent.

Autre instrument

• basse — Une basse est un terme générique commun donné à plus d’un instrument : la guitare basse et la contrebasse. Veuillez utiliser le bon instrument si vous savez duquel on parle.
• rhombe
• effets — Les effets sont des dispositifs qui permettent au musicien de modifier le son d’un instrument.
• piano électrique
• Gizmo (Elguitar/bass effect device) — Boîtier d’effet pour guitare électrique, posé sur son chevalet, équipé de touches et de roues, il permet d’en frotter les cordes.
• hydraulophone ("woodwater" flute made with hydraulics) — Made of tubing with holes that may have everything from none to two reeds, water instead of air comes out of the holes. Sound is produced by covering the holes with fingers, altering the flow of water through the holes.
• kazoo
• lasso d’amour — Le lasso d’amore, tuyau harmonique ou ondulophone est un tube en plastique ondulé que l’on fait tourner en rond.
• scie musicale (Bowed metal plaque idiophone) — Regular or specialised saw used for music, held and bent, it is bowed to produce characteristical glissando.
• autres instruments — Other instruments. If you can't find an instrument, please request it.
• pūrerehua (Māori taonga pūoro bullroarer) — made of wood, bone or stone it has a long string attached, when spun around it produces a deep, loud whizzing sound that can be heard from far away.
• suikinkutsu — Un suikinkutsu est une sorte de décoration de jardin utilisant l’écoulement de l’eau pour faire de la musique. Aussi connu sous le nom de cithare japonaise à eau, elle porte le nom du son que fait le koto (cithare japonaise) et n’est pas en fait un instrument à cordes.
• talkbox — Une « talkbox » est une boîte à effet qui permet au musicien de modifier le son d’un instrument.
• ruban
• platine vinyle — Used in turntablism, vinyl records are not simply played on it, instead DJ's perform creating sound.
• aspirateur
• żummara (Maltese mirliton) — Made of bamboo with one end covered with grease-paper, it is a "side-blown" mirliton.
  Not to be confused with the Egyptian/Iraqi zummara which is an instrument similar to a chalumeau.

Ensemble

• chirimía et tambour (pair of double-reed and drum. from South America.) — cousin sud-américain du galoubet et tambour.
• gamelan (Indonesian traditional ensemble) — Gamelan is basically split up in 3 traditions: the Balinese, the Sundanese and the Javanese, with each area having several different gamelan ensembles from large to small, each including a variety of instruments.
  Most if not all gamelan instruments come in two scales, Sléndro and Pélog, these are tuned differently and large gamelan orchestras always include at-least one of each scale and often several sets in each.
  Gamelan is an integrated part of Indonesian culture, is used in important traditions and throughout Indonesian life.
• guban (Traditional chinese drum and clapper.) — Important in Yue, Kunkqu and Peking opera, it consists of the drum bangu and the clapper paiban. Drum is played by one hand and clapper with the other.
• piano duo (ensemble of two pianists playing on separate pianos) — Chamber ensemble where two pianists play on a different piano each.
• piano four hands (ensemble of two pianists playing on one piano) — Chamber ensemble where two pianists play on the same piano at the same time.
• quatuor avec piano (ensemble of piano, violin, viola and cello)
• trio avec piano (ensemble of violin, cello and piano) — Chamber ensemble of three players (one piano, one violin, one cello)
• Pierrot ensemble (ensemble flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano) — Chamber ensemble of five players (flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano). Originally required for Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire, it became a fairly common combination for 20th century classical groups.
• galoubet et tambourin (pair of flute and drum, each played by one hand) — Originally an early European combination of a drum (tambourine) and pipe (fipple flute) were pipe was played by one hand and drum beaten by the other. It was chiefly used for dancing music. It has analogies all over the world.
• quatuor de saxophones — ensemble of four saxophones, generally SATBar
• orchestre tamburica serbo-croate
• quatuor à cordes (ensemble of 1st violin, 2nd violin, viola and cello) — Chamber ensemble of four players (two violins, one viola, one cello)
• string quintet (ensemble of 2 violins, viola, cello and a fifth string instrument) — Chamber ensemble of five players (two violins, one viola & one cello, then either a second viola, a second cello or a double bass)
• Trio à cordes (ensemble of violin, viola and cello) — Chamber ensemble of three players (one violin, one viola, one cello)
• taonga pūoro (Māori traditional instrument ensemble) — Traditional musical instruments of the Māori people of New Zealand. Consists of gourds (hue), shell flutes (pu), wooden flutes (koauau), wind roarers and other natural materials.
• ensemble traditionnel basque — instruments used in the traditional music of the Basque people
• viol consort (ensemble of multiple viols) — Ensemble of multiple instruments of the viol family, usually including at least treble, tenor and bass viols.
• octuor de violons (New modern streamlined family of violins) — New Violin Family of eight proportionally-sized violins developed mainly by Carleen Hutchins, each based directly on the standard violin and its acoustic properties, thus their sound is at a more homogeneous pitch "near the two middle open strings."

Famille

• bağlama (saz) family
• psaltérions baltes (Family of Baltic box-zithers) — Family of related plucked box-zithers from the Baltic area, each hold a strong traditional significance within their respective communities Members include: * Kantele from Finland * Kannel from Estland * Kanklės from Lithuania * Kokles from Latvia * Gusli from Russia/Belarus Additional members include the Russian Mari-people's Kusle, the Latvian Livonian-people's Kāndla and the Sápmi Harpu
• bīn (Family of ancient Indian stick zither chordophones) — One of the two subfamilies of Indian chordophones, the North Indian stick zither used in classical Hindustani music has two (or more) large gourd sound resonators and a stick or tube body.
  Commonly called "bin", "been" or "bean", the representative is rudra veena, and credits to just "bin" are usually that.
• flûte traversière — Western concert flute is the most common variant of the flute and is commonly referred to as just "flute".
• fiddle — Generally any bowed handle lute with the characteristic "violin" shape belong to fiddles.
• gendèr (Family of Indonesian metallophones) — Uses in Javanese gamelan and Balinese wayang, these range from 12 to 14 tuned bronze keys, all suspended over metal or bamboo resonators.
• famille des guitares (DO NOT USE) — please help move wrongly credited relationships from this, most if not almost all should probably just be "guitar" with credit (guitars)
• húqín — Chinese family of bowed spike-fiddles, usually with 2, occasionally 3-4 strings, the bodies made of wood and covered with skin occasionally thin wood or made of coconut.
• krap (Group of thai concussion idiophones) — Made of various materials, clappers are struck together to keep rhythm and time for use in ceremonies and rituals and to accompany dancing and singing.
• lute family
• métallophone (Arrangement of struck tuned metal bars.) — Consisting of tuned metal bars, slates or keys struck with mallets and arranged (often on resonators of sonorous material) in various scales. Compare xylophone for the wooden bar equivalent.
• pi — Family of quadruple reed oboes
• famille des trompettes (Family of the brass instrument trumpet) — Family of the brass instrument trumpet
• vînâ (Family of ancient Indian lute-like chordophones) — One of the two subfamilies of Indian chordophones, the South Indian gourd lute used in classical Carnatic music has a single gourd music-box (sometimes a secondary small resonator gourd) with an often hollow neck.
  Commonly called just "veena" or "vina", the representative is Saraswati veena, and credits to just "veena" are usually that.
• famille des violes (Viola de gamba family) — Please use Viola da Gamba with credit "viol" for generic / unspecified viol credits, and not this one. Developed in the 15th century from vihuelists starting to play with bows, viols have frets, flat backs, sloped shoulders, c-holes and are tuned in fourths.
• famille des violons (Modern violin family) — Developed in the 16th century, these violas da braccio are distinct from the violas da gamba family.
  Modern members are:
  • Violin (little viola)
  • Viola
  • Violoncello (small big viola)
  • Double Bass (replacing the violone (big viola))
  Past members include the violone (now a considered a viol) and bass viol (a forerunner to the violoncello). Occasionally Octobass is also included as a member.

Instrument non classé

• claviorganum (Fifteenth century organ harpsichord hybrid) — Popular in the fifteenth century, it was a combination of a pipe organ and harpsichord, often with two keyboards, one for the strings and one for the pipes mounted underneath.

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