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- quot; is used) is a traditional stringed musical instrument resembling a ... The player kneels near the right end of the instrument, at the “head” ...8 KB (1,284 words) - 23:06, 3 March 2025
- them for such valued purposes as making musical instruments, carrying items ... (even-toed ungulates), in the families Antilocapridae (pronghorn ...10 KB (1,636 words) - 16:20, 25 January 2023
- A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose ... been the first means used to realize a musical idea in concrete form, virtually ...26 KB (3,742 words) - 07:09, 4 February 2025
- The saxophone is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family ... as both an orchestral and military band instrument. Saxophone players are ...17 KB (2,653 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by ... producing different pitches on a brass instrument. Slides, valves, crooks ...34 KB (4,980 words) - 16:54, 26 March 2022
- Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the ... The flute family can be divided into two sub-families: open flutes ...17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
- A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument ... string instruments can be used as a solo instrument as well as being part of ...26 KB (3,682 words) - 21:00, 26 February 2023
- The harmonium is a type of reed organ, a freestanding keyboard instrument ... positioned in front of the bottom of the instrument, which had to be pumped ...23 KB (3,563 words) - 05:18, 25 June 2024
- A wind instrument (or aerophone) is a musical instrument that contains ... An aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily ...37 KB (5,471 words) - 15:52, 11 March 2024
- including the infusion of instruments, musical styles, and genres from ... Despite their diversity, traditional African musical forms share some ...35 KB (5,589 words) - 07:01, 4 February 2025
- trinity). A mizhavu, the percussion instrument used to accompany Koodiyattam ... with the priestly caste. Some Chakyar families maintained secret manuals ...19 KB (2,773 words) - 22:37, 3 March 2025
- The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument of the family known ... because of its suitability as a simple instrument for teaching music and ...34 KB (5,330 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- issued a decree and chose boys from good families who were of good morals ... and compromise between the king and the families of the aristocracy. ...12 KB (1,816 words) - 15:55, 10 July 2025
- Yejong’s reign, with a gift of Chinese musical instruments from the Song ... merchants, members of aristocratic families, freeborn peasant farmers ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- or even of an entire gens (a group of families believed to be descended ... profoundly gifted. However, because the instrument is outdated, results derived ...20 KB (2,859 words) - 06:48, 18 April 2024
- German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") ... are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven ...52 KB (7,685 words) - 01:50, 27 February 2024
- born from a cultural synthesis of several musical streams: the vedic chant ... Hindustani musical performance is based on a composition which is ...31 KB (4,619 words) - 20:31, 17 July 2024
- tendencies to embrace the world. His musical rendering of this 'premature ... Bellini, and Donizetti played by a large musical box called orchestrion. ...33 KB (4,939 words) - 01:25, 4 November 2025
- being allocated to chiefs and ruling families. *The Fulani that occupied ... The Fula have a rich musical culture and play a variety of traditional ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 14:26, 3 December 2023
- the migration of many provincial weaving families to Vientiane to seek employment ... in length, to house numerous extended families. Bahnaric and Katuic long ...41 KB (6,545 words) - 17:30, 11 March 2025
