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Struck idiophones30 items
Xylophone
📋Marimba
2015📋Vibraphone
📋Glockenspiel
📋Balafon
2024📋Cymbals
📋Triangle
📋Castanets
📋Gong
2008📋Bianzhong
📋Tubular bells
📋Claves
📋Woodblock
📋Temple block
📋Slit drum
📋Steel pan
📋Metallophone
📋Bonang
2021📋Saron
2021📋Gender
2021📋Cowbell
📋Agogo bells
📋Carillon
2014📋Handbell
📋Crotales
📋Lithophone
📋Bianqing
📋Water gourd idiophone
📋Percussion beam
📋Stamping tube
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Shaken, scraped & plucked idiophones20 items
💡 Everyday examples
- Instruments whose sound comes from vibrating strings — like the violin and the gayageum — are grouped under chordophones (3) in the Hornbostel-Sachs system.
- Instrument dimensions in this group report the measured size of specific museum specimens at The Met and the Smithsonian.
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