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Idiophones

Category of musical instruments in which the generator of sound is the object itself.

Idiophones consist of a resonant solid material such as wood, metal, or stone.  Basic types of idiophones include:

  – Struck Directly or Indirectly

  – Plucked – often referred to as “lamellophones”

  – Friction – when both objects are sonorous

  Idiophone is one of the four main categories in the original Erich von Hornbostel – Curt Sachs scheme of musical

 instrument classification.

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