Classification (Sachs-Von Hornbostel revised by MIMO)
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321.1
chordophone--bow lute: multiple string carriers, one for each string, are organically united with a resonator
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321.21
chordophone--bowl lyre; a natural or carved-out bowl, covered with a sound table, serves as the resonator; the strings are attached to a yoke which lies in the same plane as the resonator sound-table and consists of two arms and a cross-bar
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321.311
chordophone--spike bowl lute: the resonator consists of a natural or carved-out bowl through which the handle/neck passes
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321.312
chordophone--spike box lute or spike guitar: the resonator is built up from wood, the body of the instrument is in the form of a box through which the handle/neck passes
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321.313
chordophone--spike tube lute: the handle/neck passes diametrically through the walls of a tube
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321.321
chordophone--necked bowl lute: the handle is attached to or carved from the resonator, like a neck
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321.322
chordophone--necked box lute or necked guitar: the handle is attached to or carved from the resonator, like a neck
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321.331
chordophone--half-spike or tanged bowl lute: the handle/neck is neither attached to the resonator nor passes all the way through it but terminates within the body
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322.112
chordophone--open arched harp - Wachsmann type 2: the tanged neck fits tightly into a hole at the narrow end of the resonator like a cork in a bottle; the plane of the strings lies at right angles to the sound-table; the harp has no pillar
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322.21
chordophone--frame harp without tuning action: the harp has a pillar
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322.221
chordophone--frame harp with manual tuning action: the harp has a pillar; the strings can be shortened by hand-levers
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322.222
chordophone--frame harp with pedal tuning action: the harp has a pillar; the tuning can be altered by pedals
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323.2
chordophone--spike harp with pressure bridge (bridge harp or harp-lute): a line joining the lower ends of the strings would be perpendicular to the straight neck, notched bridge; the plane of the strings lies at right angles to the soundtable; a tall stringholder or bridge holds the strings at successive levels, their sounding lengths increasing with their distance from the soundtable; the body resembles a spike lute, with a neck bisecting a calabash resonator
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412.132
aerophone--set of free reeds (lamella vibrates through a closely-fitting slot): interruptive free reeds
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412.132-8
aerophone--set of idiophonic interruptive free reeds: each reed/lamella itself vibrates through a closely-fitting slot when activated by an airstream; with keyboard
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412.22
aerophone--a non-idiophonic interruptive agent turns on its own axis while being whirled through free-standing air in a circular plane at the end of a string
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421.111.12
aerophone--single end-blown flute (a narrow stream of air is directed against an edge to excite a column of air in a tube or a body of air in a cavity); with fingerholes
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421.112.3
aerophone--set of end-blown panpipes: several end-blown flutes of different pitch are combined to form a single instrument; mixed open and stopped panpipes
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421.121.12
aerophone--side-blown flute: the player blows against the sharp rim of a hole in the side of the tube; with fingerholes
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421.13
aerophone--vessel flute (without distinct beak): the body of the pipe is not tubular but vessel-shaped; with fingerholes
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421.141.12
aerophone--open single notch flute: airstream directed over the edge of a notch at the top of the tube; with fingerholes
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421.141.22
aerophone--stopped single notch flute: aistream directed over the edge of a notch at the top of the stopped tube; with fingerholes
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421.211.12
aerophone--single open flute with external duct: the duct is outside the wall of the flute; this group includes flutes with the duct chamfered in the wall under a ring-like sleeve and other similar arrangements; with fingerholes
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421.221.12
aerophone--single open flute with internal duct: the duct is inside the tube; with fingerholes