Music

Tag: Musical instrument

Buying an acoustic guitar

Knowing how to choose the right guitar and how to identify a bad one, will save you from countless headaches, not... More

Percussion instruments: A definition

A musical instrument that is struck (or sometimes shaken or scraped) to produce sound. This category includes instruments whose own hard... More

Choosing the Right Guitar

When you decide to learn to play guitar, choosing the right guitar is a very important choice you have to make... More

Pochette violin

Pochette violins arose from the 17th and 18th centuries when dancing masters used them as a teaching aid. It was too... More

Kazoo

AppearanceHow to play the kazooThe ancient ancestors of the kazooThe kazoo becomes a thing of the common peopleThe different disguises of... More

Flute

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. A musician who plays the flute is sometimes called a flutist... More

History of the glockenspiel

Brief description The name glockenspiel is a German term meaning “bell play”, referring to the sound made of small bells. At... More

History of the timpani

Overview of the timpani The timpani are a percussion instrument, also known as the kettledrum. It is a kind of... More

Origin of the Ukulele

The ukulele originated in the 19th century as a Hawaiian interpretation of the Portuguese guitar called cavaquinho. It is a fretted,... More

History of the Clarinet: From past to present

Clarinets have been around for quite a long time, although not in their present form. The history of the clarinet goes... More

History of the electric guitar

Before the development of the very first electric guitar in the 1930s, the acoustic guitar was the only available guitar. The... More

Finger cymbals: A general term

Finger cymbals are a percussion instrument made out of wood, bone or metal, held between the thumb and fingers. They are clicked... More

Tavil

The thavil is a percussion instrument originating from South India that is in a barrel shape. It mainly accompanies the nadaswaram... More

Claves

The claves are a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of short wooden sticks that are struck together to produce a... More

Choosing the right musical instrument

Choosing a musical instrument is not a decision to be taken lightly. Playing any musical instrument requires a great deal... More

Dilruba

Description Of The Dilruba The dilruba is a cross between the sitar and sarangi and is extremely close to the esraj... More

Xylophone

The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of wooden bars of various lengths that are struck... More

French horn: A modern swiss alpenhorn

Today, the Industrial Revolution transforms musical machines. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that... More

Guiro

The guiro is a percussion instrument that is played by running a wooden stick or scrapper along the notches and groves... More

Sitar

Description of the Sitar Origin of the Sitar Playing the Sitar Tuning the Sitar Surbahar - Surbahar is essentially a... More

Kinnor: Biblical harp

Kinnor is the Hebrew name for an ancient stringed instrument, the first mentioned in the Bible (Gen. iv. 21), where it... More

Surbahar

A surbahar is best described as a bass sitar. This is because it is similar to sitars but larger and tuned... More

Bansuri

The bansuri (bans [bamboo] + swar [musical note] is a transverse alto flute made of a single length of bamboo and... More

Jew's harp

The Jew's harp is known world-wide by many different names, depending on the country of origin. Some examples are: England -... More

Theremin

The Thereminvox or Theremin is one of the earliest fully electronic musical instruments. Invented in 1919 by Russian Lev Sergeivitch Termen... More

Celesta

A celesta (pronounced se-lest-a or cheh-lest-a) is a keyboard musical instrument that looks similar to a regular piano. Unlike the piano... More

Bass drum

A bass drum is a large, heavy drum that produces a low-pitched (but untuned) "thump". It is used in orchestral music,... More

3 Tips on Buying a Used Instrument

There are advantages to buying a used music instrument. For one, you can find a good quality instrument at a lower... More

Vibraphone

The vibraphone (also called a vibraharp or vibes) is a percussion instrument played with mallets. It looks similar to the xylophone... More

Tambourine

The tambourine is a percussion instrument that has a single drumhead mounted on a frame with small metal disks or plates... More

French bagpipes

French bagpipes cover a wide range and variety of styles of bagpipes and piping, from the Celtic piping and music of... More

Cornet

The cornet is a standard concert band instrument; most bands have at least two cornets, as they are often scored in... More

Dhrupad

Dhrupad is the oldest surviving genre of classical singing in India. Its name, from dhruva-pada, seems to mean "the eternal verse",... More

Buying a guitar

The first decision involves choosing between either an electric or acoustic guitar. Once you have made that choice, the next thing... More

Do not buy cheap musical instruments

Over the last decade, more and more cheap musical instruments have been flooding the markets from Asia and other countries offering... More

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