History:Instrument Tree/Requests

A new instrument will be added only when it is used on at least 5 releases.

If the instrument you want added is not listed below, please add it. If the instrument is already listed, please add the applicable release(s) to that listing. In either case, please supply as much information about the instrument as possible. Please also search the Instrument list to make sure it is not already there under a different name.

When a proposed instrument has been added on the server, its info will be moved to the Recently Added section of this page.

Proposed Instrument List

17-string koto

• • AKA: Jūshichi-gen, 十七絃, 十七弦
  • Description: A koto with 17 rather than 13 strings, sometimes described as a bass koto.
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings / ... / Koto
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 源氏ノスタルジー
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Accordina

• • AKA:
  • Description: it's a free reed musical instrument like the accordion or harmonica, more information
  • Instrument Family: Free reed
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Le Jaseur boréal
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Acoustic Instruments

• • AKA:
  • Description: Generic instrument credit
  • Instrument Family: Instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • We already have Electronic Instruments in the tree.

Agogô

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a type of bell
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Toxygene - Track #4 (Curtis Watts)
    • Release 2: Devil's Got Your Tongue
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Alfaia drum

• • Description:
    • Wikipedia (PT) Wikipedia (FR)
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Indeecios credits Tikogó for "alfaia drum"
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Algozey

• • Description: A wooden, beaked double-flute traditionally played by goat herders in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. One flute is kept as the drone, creating a melodious, hypnotic sound. This instrument is popularly used in the Bhangra dance form.
  • World Music Central wiki
  • Instrument Family: Flutes
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: In the Zone (Me Against the Music (Rishi Rich's Desi Kulcha mix))
    • Release 2: Rise & Fall (Rise & Fall (Rishi Rich Desi Kulcha remix) (feat. Juggy D))
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Apito

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Arco Bass

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Archlute

• • AKA: Arciliuto (Italian); Erzlaute (German); Архилютня (Russian)
  • Description: The archlute is a European plucked string instrument developed around 1600 as a compromise between the very large theorbo, the size and re-entrant tuning of which made for difficulties in the performance of solo music, and the Renaissance tenor lute, which lacked the bass range of the theorbo. Essentially a tenor lute with the theorbo's neck-extension, the archlute lacks the power in the tenor and the bass that the theorbo's large body and typically greater string length provide.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Sonatas For Violoncello (Anner Bylsma, violoncello)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Ashiko

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a type of drum played with the hands
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Devil's Got Your Tongue
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Atarigane

• • AKA: 当り鉦, 当たり鉦, 当鉦, 摺鉦, surigane, チャンチキ, chanchiki, コンチキ, konchiki
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A Japanese gong which is struck using a deer horn mallet.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion / ... / Gong
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 直感2〜逃した魚は大きいぞ!〜
    • Release 2: 幸せきょうりゅう音頭
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Backpacker guitar

• • AKA: Martin Backpacker guitar
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Place in the World (John Jennings, tracks 3 and 8)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Backwards electric guitar

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Not Too Late
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Adam Levy is credited playing backwards electric guitars on Not Too Late. Is this really a separate instrument? :-S -- Prodoc 15:20, 08 March 2008 (UTC)
      • Honestly, I highly doubt it. He's probably just playing it behind his back/head, reversed, on in some other strange way. Or perhaps it's a left-hand guitar. I don't know. But I doubt it warrants an instrument listing on its own. -- FrederikSOlesen 00:27, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Balalaika double bass

• • AKA: contrabass balalaika
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Dark Ages
    • Release 2: Le Pop
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Vitaly Hrenov is credited playing Balalaika double bass on Dark Ages. I don't know this instrument at all so I don't know if the 'double bass' aspect is default for this instrument or not. If it isn't, should we include it as a separate instrument? -- Prodoc 15:20, 08 March 2008 (UTC)
      • You provided the link to Wikipedia and still didn't read the article? Double bass would correspond to the contrabass tuning. Just use balalaika for now and record the tuning in the Sub Optimal Credits. Tunings will most likely be added as a separate attribute. -- FrederikSOlesen 00:27, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Banjolin

• • AKA:
  • Description: Description in Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Feels Like Home (track 1, credited as banjo)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Four-string Banjo

• • AKA:
  • Description: a banjo, with four strings
  • Instrument Family: Strings, Banjo
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Genuine Negro Jig by Caroline Chocolate Drops
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Five-string Banjo

• • AKA:
  • Description: a banjo, with five strings
  • Instrument Family: Strings, Banjo
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Genuine Negro Jig by Caroline Chocolate Drops
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Banjo-ukelele

• • AKA:'Banjolele'
  • Description: Description in Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Samurai Over Serbia
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Baroque Trumpet

• • AKA: Natural Trumpet
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A brass instrument used in the 16th through 18th centuries, or a modern replica of a period instrument.
  • Instrument Family: Trumpet
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The James Bowman Collection (James Bowman and The King's Consort) in track 20
    • Release 2: Fiori Musicali: Three Organ Masses
    • Release 3: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts: Grand Tour (played by David Staff: see CD sleeve linked at http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDH55344)
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Bapang

• • AKA:
  • http://chinhwebchannel.in/Nomadic%20fair%20&%20festival/performance.html
  • http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_rajasthanie
  • Description: A percussion from Rajasthan
  • Instrument Family: Percussions
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Un bruit qui court (Bapang by Simon Edwards)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Barrel Organ

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The New Millennium Four Seasons (feat. violin: Gilles Colliard)
    • Release 2: Des nuits noires de monde
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • BrianSchweitzer 11:26, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Bass Marimba

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Kärlek & politik
    • Release 2: Wall-E
    • Release 3: Unerreichbar
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments: Not very common. The author of http://www.craftymusicteachers.com/bassmarimba/ has heard from percussion supply dealers that there are few bass marimbas around, mainly at music schools

Bawu

• • AKA: 巴乌, 巴烏, Ba-wu
  • Description: A Chinese transverse free reed wind instrument which has a single metal reed.
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Winds / ... / Free reed
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 聲聲醉如蘭。
    • Release 2: On the Shoulders of the Great Bear (as "Ba-wu")
    • Release 3: 筝美人
    • Release 4: Dog Man Star [1]
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Bellowphone

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Bell tree

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Tuned percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Nonsuch (track 16, "Bungalow")
    • Release 2: Woodland Winds
    • Release 3: CREID on track 5 (as "tree bell")
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Blaster Beam

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Body Percussion

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion, other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Art of the Middle Eastern Oud: New Perspectives on Traditional Magams
    • Release 2: Genuine Negro Jig by Carolina Chocolate Drops (actually "hand clapping" and "'leg' percussion", but this is closer than we have now)
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • If added, it should probably be the parent category of "handclaps".

Bowed Piano

• • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Keyboard? Strings?
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Sculptures Musicales, Twenty-Six with Twenty-Nine, Twenty-Six with Twenty-Eight & Twenty-Nine, Eighty ('piano' should be 'bowed piano')
    • Release 2: New Music for Bowed Piano
    • Release 3: Ten / Ryoanji / Fourteen (Ives Ensemble)
    • Release 4: Three / Twenty-Eight / Fifty-Four / Fifty-Seven
    • Release 5: One⁴ / Four / Twenty-Nine
  • Comments:

Broom Stick

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Portrait (disc 1) (tracks 5-8)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Buk

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Korean drum played with one hand and one stick
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Bullroarer

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Byzaanchi

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Caixa

• • AKA:
  • Caixa
  • Description: a Brazilian snare drum used in samba music
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Cavaquinho

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A Portuguese instrument similar to the Ukulele.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Εκπομπή
    • Release 2: Mar Azul
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Caxixi

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: an African drum, seems to be played both as a shaker and a hand drum?
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: New York Counterpoint
    • Release 2: CREID on track 9
    • Release 3: kiRiti
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Chanter

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Chanzy

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Chikuzen Biwa

• • AKA: 筑前琵琶
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A biwa with either four strings and frets or five strings and frets popularised during the Meiji period.
  • Instrument Family: Strings / ... / Biwa
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 琵琶〜哀・吟遊
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Ching

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Chinese finger cymbals
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Chitarra battente

• • AKA:
  • Description: Description in Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: track in tribute to Dead Can Dance
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Cimbasso

• • AKA:
  • Description: Description in Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: ワールド・デストラクション ~世界撲滅の六人~ オリジナルサウンドトラック
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Computer

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
    • We have "programming"? -- FrederikSOlesen 10:12, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Computer hard drive "triangle"

• • Description: presumably the platter from a computer hard drive, played as a triangle.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Genuine Negro Jig by Caroline Chocolate Drops
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments: Yeah, this'll never get added. --Hawke 00:03, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Anglo concertina

• • AKA: Anglo-German concertina
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: the Anglo or Anglo-German concertina is historically a hybrid between the English and German types of concertinas. The button layouts are generally the same as the original 20-button German concertinas designed by Uhlig in 1834.
  • Instrument Family: Free-reed aerophone
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Sharp Practice
    • Release 2: Fenlandia
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

English concertina

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a fully chromatic instrument having buttons in a rectangular arrangement of four staggered rows.
  • Instrument Family: Free-reed aerophone
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Sharp Practice
    • Release 2: Fenlandia
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Contrabass Guitar

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a low-register plucked string instrument in the guitar family, which has six strings.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Hearts and Bones
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Cornamuse

• • AKA:
  • Description: Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Winds (double reed)
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Alchemist
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Cromorne

• • AKA:
  • Description: Cromorne
  • Instrument Family: Woodwinds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 40 bandes originales pour 40 films (disc 1: Alexandre le bienheureux / Clérambard)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Cuíca

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Brazilian friction drum used in samba music
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Ultimate Adventure on track 9, 10, 11
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
    • More appearances listed on Wikipedia -- mr_maxis

Daegeum

• • AKA: Taegum, daegum, taegŭm, 대금
  • Description: A large Korean transverse flute made of bamboo.
  • Instrument Family: Wind instruments / ... / Transverse flute
  • Wikipedia
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Corée - Musique de Cour
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Daruan

• • AKA: 大阮
  • Description: A bass ruan.
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings / ... / Moon lute (or Ruan, if that gets added)
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Art of the Chinese Lute (see edit #4801525)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Dhol

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: an Indian and Pakistani barrel drum
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Dictaphone

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Speech playback device
  • Instrument Family: Vocoder?
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Snake Charmer Holger Czukay on tracks 1,3 & 5
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Dilruba

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: bowed string instrument
  • Instrument Family: Sitar
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Papua New Guinea Translations Sitar Magic Band (all tracks)
    • Release 2: Λαβύρινθος
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Domra

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a long-necked Russian string instrument of the lute family with a round body and three or four metal strings
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Le Pop
    • Release 2: På väg has primdomra, altdomra and tenordomra (all mentioned in the Wikipedia article) on track 2
    • Release 3: Sieben/Seven has domra on tracks 5 & 8
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Doshpuluur

• • AKA: Toshpuluur
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a plucked, banjo-like, long-necked lute used in the Tuva region of Mongolia.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Double-reed Slide Music Stand

• • AKA:
  • Description: An oboe read crossed with a music stand into a funky slidebar instrument.
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Used by, who else, PDQ Bach. -- BrianSchweitzer 11:26, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Drone

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Other? Winds?
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
    • Is this an actual instrument of its own, or just generic droning (which can be done on most melody instruments)? -- FrederikSOlesen 10:12, 09 March 2008 (UTC)
      • I'm not sure - Discogs gives no description for this one, I'll have to try to dig it out of their change notes if they mean as you describe, if they perhaps mean a tanpura, or if they mean something else. -- BrianSchweitzer 11:46, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Duck call

• • AKA:Entenfänger
  • Wikipedia
    • http://www.steveweissmusic.com/category/sound-effects
  • Description: A duck call is like a traditional whistle made to emulate the sound of a duck
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Hell Billies From Venus on track 11 & 12 (as "Entenfänger")
    • Release 2: Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Dulcian

• • AKA: curtal
  • Description: Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Winds (bassoon-like)
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Alchemist
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Dulcimer

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Fantasia Lindum
    • Release 2: No Guru No Method No Beeper
    • Release 3: Fateless
    • Release 4: Broken Wings
    • Release 5: Wall-E (bowed lap dulcimer)
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
    • We already have Appalachian dulcimer (plucked) and Hammered dulcimer (struck), as well as several children of the hammered dulcimer. Sure it isn't one of these? -- FrederikSOlesen 20:27, 06 May 2008 (UTC)

Dunduk

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Dutar

• • AKA: Dutara, Dotar, Dutor, Doutar
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: traditional long-necked two-stringed lute found in Central Asia and South Asia
  • Instrument Family: Lute
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: We Are Three track 9
    • Release 2: Naghma
    • Release 3: Afghanistan Untouched (both discs)
    • Release 4: Ouzbékistan: L'Art Du Dotâr (as dotâr)
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Eagle Bone Whistle

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Sacred Native American instrument.
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Border of Heaven
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • See 8653887. -- TimVanHolder 20:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Effects

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Never, Never Land on track 5
    • Release 2: The Catherine Wheel
    • Release 3: Spike Various sounds by Michael Blair
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

E-Flat Bass Tuba

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Secret of the Sahara
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Eight String Bass

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Dreaming
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Ektare

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Electric Acoustic Guitar

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Unlimited: Saga (disc 2)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • I'm a bit surprised that this isn't here already, it's not exactly a rare instrument. I came across one release it's used in - but I have no doubt that it's out there on various other releases as well. -- Kilu
      • From what I can tell, it's just a regular (acoustic) guitar with pick-ups. Do you want "electric-acoustic" bouzoukis, banjos, harps, accordions, violins, guitar basses, double basses, ... etc. as well? -- -- FrederikSOlesen 10:42, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
        • I suppose you have a point there. I personally don't have an electric acoustic anything, so I don't know if the sound is any different from normal acoustic. I do think that it's sort of odd that it's specifically credited as such in the booklet though. Kilu
        • Perhaps an "electric" option which could then be applied to any instrument in the list? -- BrianSchweitzer 13:40, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Electric Baritone Guitar

• • AKA: Scale Baritone Guitar
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Six-string guitar tuned an octave lower than standard tuning, which can function as a bass or electric guitar, but with its own distinctive sound.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 2009-07-08: Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW, Santa Monica, CA, USA
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Adding primarily for Doug McCombs's work in Tortoise, but Wikipedia states its use by more players. -- M. del Carpio 10:36, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Electric bouzouki

• • AKA:
  • image search
  • Description: Electric bouzouki
  • Instrument Family: Bouzouki
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Celtic Moon (Niall O'Callánain)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Electronics

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Idiology
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

F Bass Tuba

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Secret of the Sahara
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • BrianSchweitzer 02:13, 05 August 2007 (UTC)

Feet and Clogs

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion/Other Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Rice
    • Release 2: The Border of Heaven
    • Release 3: Track 14 of Together! －タンポホ・プッチ・ミニ・ゆうこ－ has "foot steps"
    • Release 4: Maudite Moisson !
    • Release 5: Les choux pis des melons
  • Comments:
    • I see that the list does already have "Handclaps", and surely feet are no less important musically than hands? I have many recordings with credits for human percussion. For example, from Rice, how should I enter Lucy Adams feet, clogs, singing? -- monxton 02:45, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
      • Clogging is a form of, or at least intimately related to, step dancing. See discussion on dancing below. -- FrederikSOlesen 10:40, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
        • See also 8653849. -- TimVanHolder
          • Track 10 of The Black Rider has credits for "boots". -- mikemorr 12:35, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
    • Suggest rename to "Foot Percussion". This is the name I've heard it under in reference to traditional French-Canadian and traditional New England music, where it is very common. For reference I can only give links like [2] and [3]. Dolphinling 05:36, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Flageolet

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Flugabone

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Frame drum set

• • Description: set of frame drums
  • Instrument Family: Percussion, Frame Drum, Drum set
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Genuine Negro Jig by Carolina Chocolate Drops
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Adding just Rebana may suffice; a Kompang is a smaller version but I believe the same.

Fretless Guitar

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Γρήγορα η ώρα πέρασε
    • Release 2: Ο κήπος της Ρίλα
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Frottoir

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a variation of the washboard made specifically for Zydeco music; also called a rubboard
  • Instrument Family: Other Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Idiology (as "rubboard")
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Even thought the wikipedia page is really a redirect to the page on the Washboard, the Frottoir is mentioned in the article as a different instrument (but derived from the Washboard). It's in the section "The washboard as a musical instrument" -- Vivek Bhaskar 20:32, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Fujara

• • AKA: Slovak shepherds long pipe
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A long wooden flute that superficially resembles a bassoon.
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Hounds of Love (as "Fujare")
    • Release 2: On the Shoulders of the Great Bear
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Ganzá

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a Brazilian rattle
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Gittern

• • AKA:
  • Description: Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings (ancestor to guitar, lute, mandolin)
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Alchemist
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Glass Bottle

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Portrait (disc 1) (tracks 5-8)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Glass Bowl

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Canticle for Leibowitz (as "Pyrex bowl")
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Goc

• • AKA:
  • Description: a serbian traditional drum.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Alkohol: Šljivovica & Champagne
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Guimbri

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Greek lyra

• • AKA: Cretan lyra, Cretan lira or lyra.
  • Description: a pear-shaped, three-stringed bowed string instrument central to the traditional music of Crete.
  • lyra Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Midwinter Night's Dream on track 4.
    • Release 2: Μουσική της Κρήτης
    • Release 3: Μανία
    • Release 4: Ριζίτικα
    • Release 5: Microkosmos
  • Comments:

Greek lute

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Midwinter Night's Dream on track 3 & 4.
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Guitalele

• • AKA: Guitalélé, Guitarlele, Guitarlélé, Guitatélé (typo), Yamaha GL-1 (product)
  • Description: small sized guitar tuned like a ukulélé
  • Instrument Family: Guitars
  • Wikipedia
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Many tracks in ZA7IE
    • Release 2: サマーれげぇ!レインボー
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Guitarrón mexicano

• • AKA: Guitarrón, Mexican guitarron, Mexican large guitar (literal translation)
  • Description: A large, deep-bodied Mexican 6-string acoustic bass played in mariachi groups.
  • Instrument Family: Guitars
  • Wikipedia
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Black Eyed Peas - Elephunk
    • Release 2: Recent Songs
    • Release 3: Hotel California
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A predecessor of the modern acoustic bass guitar
    • Also a distinct instrument at Discogs
    • Not to be confused with the Guitarrón chileno

Haegeum

• • AKA: 해금
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Korean bowed string instrument related to Chinese Huqin/Erhu
  • Instrument Family: Bowed string instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Oh! Silence by 3호선 버터플라이 (tracks 6 and 11 as "해금")
    • Release 2: Time Table by 3호선 버터플라이 (tracks 11 and 15 as "해금")
    • Release 3: 민들레코러스 (see edits #12649800 and #12649802)
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Hang

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Hand-played instrument with a steelpan-like sound made of two steel sheet bowls put together in a UFO-like shape
  • Instrument Family: Percussions
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Un bruit qui court (hang by Martyn Barker)
    • Release 2: Rhizomism (hang by Rafael Sotomayor)
    • Release 3: The Vibration of the Hang (hang by Rafael Sotomayor)
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Harmonitor

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family:
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Siren on track 14
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • No idea what this actually is, only reference I can find so far seems to be on the credits page for Siren

Harpeleik

• • AKA:
  • Description: a chorded zither
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Le Pop
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Heike Biwa

• • AKA: 平家琵琶
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A biwa with four strings and five frets used to play Heike Monogatari.
  • Instrument Family: Strings / ... / Biwa
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 琵琶〜哀・吟遊
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Homus

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Hulusi

• • AKA: 葫蘆絲, 葫芦丝
  • Description: A Chinese free reed wind instrument flute typically made of bamboo.
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Winds / ... / Free reed
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 聲聲醉如蘭。
    • Release 2: 筝美人
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Igil

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Janggu

• • AKA: janggo, changgo, 장고, 장구
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a traditional Korean drum
  • Instrument Family: Percussion instruments / Drums
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Corée - Musique de Cour
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Jarana

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Mexican guitar variant
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Excitable Boy
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • See 7165280. -- TimVanHolder 20:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Jug

• • Description: An empty jug (usually made of glass or stoneware) played with the mouth. With an embouchure like that used for a brass instrument, the musician holds the mouth of the jug about an inch from his or her mouth and emits a blast of sound, made by a "buzzing" of the lips, directly into it.
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Wikipedia: Jug (musical instrument)
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Carolina Chocolate Drops: Genuine Negro Jig
    • Release 2: Fonotone Records 1956-69 (disc 1: Jug in the Shade) <-- instrument is in the title!
    • Release 3: Down III: Over the Under (water jug)
    • Release 4: Drunken Barrel House Blues (track 13 and maybe others)
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Kabosy

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Kanjira

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a south Indian tambourine
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Disco Volante on track 4
    • Release 2: Yunnan Colorfree
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Katem

• • AKA:
  • Description: Some sort of percussion instrument, middle-eastern?
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Art of the Middle Eastern Oud: New Perspectives on Traditional Magams
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Khene

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

K'kwaengwari

• • AKA: Kkwaenggwari
  • Description: Korean gong
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Guidance by I And I Djangdan
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Kompang

• • AKA: Rebana
  • Description: type of Rebana, a small frame drum used in Islamic devotional music in traditional Malay culture. (Wikipedia)
  • Instrument Family: Percussion, Frame Drum
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Louder than Light by Wicked Aura Batacada
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Adding just Rebana may suffice; a Kompang is a smaller version but I believe the same.

Kotsuzumi

• • AKA: 小鼓
  • Description: Hourglass shaped Japanese drum, smaller than the ōtsuzumi
  • Wikipedia: wikipedia:Tsuzumi
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 能楽〜室町の仮面劇
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Kutero/Kutiro

• • AKA:
  • Description: A set of three drums played by Mandinka people in West Africa. Similar to Sabar or Djembe. Picture here.
  • Instrument Family: Drums
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Ascension by Pep Love (track 16)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Launeddas

• • AKA:
  • Launeddas
  • Description: a typical Sardinian woodwind instrument, consisting of three pipes
  • Instrument family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Caminos de pache by Tenores di Bitti "Remunnu 'e Locu"
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

"leg" percussion

• • AKA:
  • Description: percussion music performed with the legs, presumably
  • Instrument family: other percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Genuine Negro Jig by Carolina Chocolate Drops
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Loops

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 52 credits loops, drum loops, percussion loops on several songs
    • Release 2: Sieben/Seven on track 11
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Lur

• • AKA:
  • Description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lur
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Skybrudd (track 11), performed by Gaute Vikdal
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Lyricon

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A type of electronic wind instrument.
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Sound-System
    • Release 2: Wenn schon nicht für immer dann wenigstens für ewig on tracks 8 and 9
    • Release 3: The Beach Boys track 3
    • Release 4: 40 bandes originales pour 40 films (disc 5: La Boum)
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Mandoguitar

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Marimbaphone

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Tuned Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Seeds
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Used by Fats Sadi on Seeds, not currently credited -- Wizzcat 21:29, 09 August 2008 (UTC)

Marímbula

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: folk musical instrument of the Caribbean Islands (not to be confused with a marimba).
  • Instrument Family: Lamellophone
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Midwinter Night's Dream
    • Release 2: Un bruit qui court (marimbula by Simon Edwards)
    • Release 3: Head Hunters
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Different to African lamellophones used to produce complex polyphony and polyrhythms, the marímbula basically plays the role of a bass guitar. -- Fabe56

Mexican Harp / Arpa de Mariachi

• • AKA:
  • Mexican Harp / Arpa de Mariachi
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Excitable Boy
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • See 7165259. -- TimVanHolder 20:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Mizmar

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Modular Synthesizer

• • AKA:
  • Description: Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Synthesizer
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 1978-10-18: Shiba Yubin Chokin Hall, Tokyo, Japan on all tracks except track 1.
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Note that a Moog is a type of Modular synth. http://www.modcan.com/ has some good photos as well.

Mridangam

• • AKA: "mridanga", "mrudangam", "mrdangam", "mrithangam", "miruthangam", and "mirudhangam"
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a south Indian drum
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: In Praise of Krishna on track 8
    • Release 2: Kinsmen
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Music Sequencer

• • AKA: Sequencer
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a device designed to play back musical notation
  • Instrument Family: Electronic
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Be Yourself Tonight
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Nagadou-daiko

• • AKA: 長胴太鼓
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: An elongated Japanese drum.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion / ... / Taiko
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 直感2〜逃した魚は大きいぞ!〜
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Ney

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Art of the Middle Eastern Oud: New Perspectives on Traditional Magams
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
      • Yes we do - as "Nai". There's several spellings for this one (Nai/Ney/Nye/Nay) -- TimVanHolder
        • The Nai in the list at the moment is a type of flute, not the drum. -- BrianFreud

Njarka

• • AKA: N'jarka
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a small fiddle made from a gourd, with one gut string, which is native to Mali.
  • Instrument Family: String instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The River by Ali Farka Touré
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Ngoni

• • AKA: N'goni, N'gone
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a plucked string instrument from West Africa, possibly an ancestor of the banjo.
  • Instrument Family: String instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: AfroCubism by Afrocubism
    • Release 2: Segu Blue by Ngoni Ba
    • Release 3: I Speak Fula by Ngoni Ba
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments: The sleeve notes for release 1 credit Bassekou Kouyate with both ngoni and ngoni ba - so I must assume they are different, but I do not know how.

Nokan

• • AKA: nohkan, 能管
  • Description: High-pitched Japanese bamboo transverse flute
  • Wikipedia: wikipedia:Nokan
  • Instrument Family: Woodwinds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 能楽〜室町の仮面劇
    • Release 2: 幸せきょうりゅう音頭
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Nyabinghi Drums (Funde, Thunder, Repeater/Keteh)

• • AKA: Rastafarian/jamaican drums
  • Wikipedia and drums
  • Description: played at a groundation ceremony in rasta culture. Nyabinghi music is played in 4/4 time on three drums:

Thunder: It is a double-headed bass drum, played with a mallet. The strokes are an open tone on 1 and a dampened stroke on 3. Occasionally, the thunder player will syncopate the rhythm.

Funde: The funde is the middle drum. It maintains the dominant heartbeat rhythm as the funde player makes steady, dampened strokes on 1 and 3.

Repeater/Keteh: The repeater or keteh, is the smallest and highest pitched drum. The drummer tends to play around 2 and 4 , with a syncopated feel. It is seen as the carrier of spirit and fire of the music.

Maybe these are two specific, but noting here in case they are credited this way on other releases. These are roughly equivalent to other standard percussion instruments like "bass drum", congas, bongos etc.

• • Instrument Family: Drums / Nyabinghi drums (preferably with an instrument each for the three)
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Light by Matisyahu
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Oboe d'amore

• • AKA:
  • Description: Oboe d'amore
  • Instrument Family: Woodwinds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Landscape Classics Series, No. 79
    • Release 2: Cantatas BWV 80, 140, 147, 227 (disc 1)
    • Release 3: Cantatas, Volume 35 (Bach Collegium Japan feat. conductor: Masaaki Suzuki)
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Ocarina, Double-chambered

• • AKA: Treble Ocarina
  • Description: Ocarina
  • Instrument Family: Woodwinds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Ocarina, Triple-chambered

• • AKA: Bass Ocarina
  • Description: Ocarina
  • Instrument Family: Woodwinds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 40 bandes originales pour 40 films (disc 1: Alexandre le bienheureux / Clérambard)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Organo di Legno

• • AKA: Wooden Pipe Organ
  • Description: A small chamber organ with wooden pipes which was well known in the Renaissance, but of which there appear to be no other surviving examples except for one made by Lorenzo da Pavia in Venice in 1494 that is now kept in the Museo Correr, Venice, Italy. Such instruments were prized for their sweet sound, described as "soave". Lorenzo's organ was pitched at a' = 455 Hz (± 4 Hz), one of the fairly high Venetian instrumental pitches. The compass is F,G-f³ (i.e. no F#), which retains the possibility of using the upper part of the range for repeating melodies at the octave.
  • Instrument Family: Winds / Keyboard
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Alfons V el Magnànim: El Cancionero de Montecassino (La Capella Reial de Catalunya feat. conductor: Jordi Savall) (disc 2) on tracks 6 and 17
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Orpharion

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A plucked instrument from the Renaissance, whose metal strings are tuned like a lute and are plucked with the fingers.
  • Instrument Family: Cittern
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Downland · Jones: Lute Songs (Emma Kirkby, soprano; Anthony Rooley, lute, orpharion) (disc 1) on tracks 4-6, 10, 12-14 and 16-17
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Ōtsuzumi

• • AKA: 大鼓
  • Description: Hourglass shaped Japanese drum, larger than the kotsuzumi
  • Wikipedia: wikipedia:Ōtsuzumi
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 能楽〜室町の仮面劇
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Outi

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Pandeiro

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a type of hand frame drum
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Music For Alfonso The Wise (The Dufay Collective) in tracks 4, 17, and 18
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Pandereta

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Wikipedia links it to 'tambourine', but it's an incorrect translation. The Pandereta is a Puerto Rican franc drum, which is in the same family, but not the same as a tambourine.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: New York Counterpoint
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • BrianSchweitzer 03:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
    • Be careful, though. Pandereta does mean Tambourine in European Spanish.

Pandero

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia (translated)
  • Description: Described in the liner as a "Spanish franc drum", looks like it's a relative of the tambourine.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: New York Counterpoint
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Pedalboard

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Piccolo trumpet

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Mozart also wrote several works for trumpet quintet, which includes a piccolo trumpet. Again, to properly AR several CDs in the 170 CD set, I need this one too. -- BrianSchweitzer 06:21, 03 November 2007 (UTC)

Pipe

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Piri

• • AKA: 피리
  • Description: A Korean double reed instrument made of bamboo.
  • Instrument Family: Wind instruments / .. / Double reed
  • Wikipedia
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Corée - Musique de Cour
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Pixiephone

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Player Piano

• • Issue:
  • AKA: Reproducing Piano
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Player pianos play themselves, but esp. in the reproducing versions, rather than being programmed like midi tracks, they were actually played by someone, and the roll thus produced became the piano roll.
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Pocket Trumpet

• • Issue: Ticket #3536
  • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: First Egg
    • Release 2: Man with a Movie Camera
    • Release 3: Seeds of Time
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • a compact size B♭ trumpet, easy to carry around. Though never was considered good enough to be in official use in orchestras, it was featured quite some times in small jazz bands. Don Cherry is Mr. Pocket Trumpet, and him alone has dozen of releases on which he uses it (also check most Ornette Coleman releases where he features) - revealing this somewhat neglected poor trumpet its true potential. All these are currently documented as simply trumpet. Note this is not the same as the Piccolo Trumpet that we now have. More about the thingie at wackypedia. -- dmppanda 05:24, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Polynesian Log Drums

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Big Ones
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Post horn

• • AKA: coach horn, posthorn, post-horn
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: The post horn is a valveless cylindrical brass or copper instrument with cupped mouthpiece, used to signal the arrival or departure of a post rider or mail coach. It was used especially by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries.
    Mozart, Mahler, and others incorporated the instrument into their orchestras for certain pieces. On such occasions, the orchestra's horn player usually plays the instrument. One example of post horn use in modern classical music is the famous off-stage solo in Mahler's Third Symphony. Due to the scarcity of this instrument, however, music written for it is usually played on a trumpet or flugelhorn.
  • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Complete Mozart Edition, Volume 3: Serenades for Orchestra (disc 7)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Used by Michael Laird on Complete Mozart Edition, Volume 3: Serenades for Orchestra (disc 7), and likely other discs on the 180 CD Mozart set.
      I added the ticket before seeing this wiki page (and therefore without discussion). :( -- Crazee canuck 23:01, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Pots & Pans

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Portrait (disc 1) (tracks 5-8)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Prepared Guitar

• AKA: Tabletop Guitar
• Wikipedia:Prepared guitar
• Instrument Family: Guitar
• Description: A prepared guitar is a guitar which has had its timbre altered by placing various objects on or between the instrument's strings, including other extended techniques. This practice is sometimes called tabletop guitar, because many prepared guitarists do not hold the instrument in the usual manner, but instead place the guitar on a table to manipulate it. (from Wikipedia)
• Tagged With: instrument-prepared guitar
• Appears On:
  • Release 1: Alanis Morissette – Flavors of Entanglement (track 7)
  • Release 2:
  • Release 3:
  • Release 4:
  • Release 5:
• Comments:
  • This seems kind of like a style of playing, involving manipulating an instrument in non-standard ways by adding to it. It seems to be applicable to nearly any instrument, but the only two examples on Wikipedia that use the "prepared" terminolody are Guitar and Piano.

Prepared Piano

• Wikipedia:Prepared piano
• Instrument Family: Piano
• Description: A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sound altered by placing objects (preparations) between or on the strings or on the hammers or dampers. (from Wikipedia)
• Tagged With: instrument-prepared piano
• Appears On:
  • Release 1: Alanis Morissette – Flavors of Entanglement (track 7)
  • Release 2: Affinis Suite (multiple tracks)
  • Release 3: Sonatas and Interludes (prepared piano: Aleck Karis) (disc 1) (all tracks)
  • Release 4: A Portrait (disc 2) (track 1)
  • Release 5: A Portrait (disc 5) (track 1)
  • Release 5: Artistry: Michael Tilson Thomas on Piano (tracks 14-16)
• Comments:
  • See Prepared Guitar, above.

Pump organ

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Keyboard?
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Aldrig får jeg fred
    • Release 2: Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming
    • Release 3: Le Pop
    • Release 4: 2001-07-06: Stadtpark, Hamburg, Germany
    • Release 5: Season of Changes
  • Comments:
    • Used by Jørgen Dickmeiss on Aldrig får jeg fred. Should be a child of "Reed Organ" per WikiPedia. (Unless it's actually exactly the same as a harmonium... ? I couldn't quite determine.) -- FrederikSOlesen 07:41, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
    • Used by Zac Rae on Fountain -- Sonofkyuss 11:05, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Ramana

• • AKA:
  • Ramana
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: New York Counterpoint
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A type of drum, not seeing much info on it. There is a picture of one at the linked site, however. -- BrianSchweitzer 03:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Rackett

• • AKA:
  • Description: Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Winds (bassoon-like)
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Alchemist
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Rauschpfeife

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Reactable

• • AKA: Reactable Systems
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: electronic musical instrument with a tabletop
  • Instrument Family: Electronic instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Voltaic
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Official website

Rebana

• • AKA:
  • Description: a small frame drum used in Islamic devotional music in traditional Malay culture. (Wikipedia)
  • Instrument Family: Percussion, Frame Drum
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Louder than Light by Wicked Aura Batacada (credited as Kompang, smaller version)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Could be added with Kompang as a sub-instrument, but as Kompang is I believe just a smaller version adding Rebana may suffice.

Reco-reco

• • AKA:
  • Reco-reco
  • Description: a specific type of Brazilian Güiro
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. The orangish picture on the left is a reco-reco (picture is correctly identified in the Portugese page). -- BrianSchweitzer

Regal

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Renaissance Harp

• • AKA:
  • Description: The Renaissance Harp is based on the 15th-16th harps that have survived through the centuries. It was used during the Renaissance to the 17th century. With two orders chromatically tuned, it can interpret the Renaissance repertoire, covering parts for virginal, Renaissance lute, etc., and in its shape we see the "Gothic" style of the stylized harps in the late Middle Ages, though this style remained until now into the Baroque.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Alfons V el Magnànim: El Cancionero de Montecassino (La Capella Reial de Catalunya feat. conductor: Jordi Savall) (disc 1) on tracks 1 to 14 and 36 to 47
    • Release 2: Alfons V el Magnànim: El Cancionero de Montecassino (La Capella Reial de Catalunya feat. conductor: Jordi Savall) (disc 2) on track 2
    • Release 3: Fantasies, Pavanes & Gallardes
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Repinique

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a 2-headed Brazilian drum
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Requinto Jarocho

• • AKA:
  • Requinto Jarocho
  • Description: Small guitar
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Excitable Boy
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • See 7165294. -- TimVanHolder 20:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Riqq

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: The Riqq is an Egyptian franc drum, also in the tambourine family.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: New York Counterpoint
    • Release 2: The Art of the Middle Eastern Oud: New Perspectives on Traditional Magams
    • Release 3: Gulistan: Rose Garden (as riq)
    • Release 4: Claimed in the band annotation to be played (as riq) by András Dés, member of Mitsoura
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Another which Wikipedia incorrectly identifies, though their picture and the picture's ID is correct. It is not the same as a tambourine or shakers, however, and the most common form in English is 'Riqq', not 'Riq' or 'Rik'. -- BrianSchweitzer 03:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Rozhok

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Ruan

• • AKA:
  • Description: Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
    • Even if we have no specific releases for this one yet, it should be certainly kept. We already have 苗晓芸, a "notable Ruan player".

Sabar

• • AKA:
  • wikipedia
  • Description: Traditional Senegalese drum.
  • Instrument Family: Drums
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Sansula

• • AKA:
  • http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Sansula.JPG
  • Description: a variant of the kalimba
  • Instrument Family: Lamellophone
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Unerreichbar on tracks 3 & 12
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Satsuma Biwa

• • AKA: 薩摩琵琶
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A biwa with four strings and frets popularised during the Edo period.
  • Instrument Family: Strings / ... / Biwa
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 琵琶〜哀・吟遊
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Saxobone

• • AKA:
  • Description: A trombine modified to accept a saxophone mouthpiece. Used by jazz player Eddie Harris (inventor?) among others.
  • Instrument Family: Brass? Winds?
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • BrianSchweitzer 11:26, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Saz

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a stringed musical instrument shared by various cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean, Near East, and Central Asia.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Music For Alfonso The Wise (The Dufay Collective) on track 6 Cantiga de Santa María 103, "Quen a Virgen ben servirá"
    • Release 2: Ο κήπος της Ρίλα
    • Release 3: Πνοή
    • Release 4: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
    • Release 5: Live at Theatre de la Ville
  • Comments:

Scratches

• • AKA: Scratching
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: technique used to produce distinctive sounds by moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable while manipulating the crossfader on a DJ mixer.
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Loveheart on track 8 Mentor
    • Release 2: A Recipe for Disaster on track 4 Mr. Quicke Cuts the Cheese
    • Release 3: Xiquembo on track 4 Back to Love
    • Release 4: 恋のフーガ
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
      • We have "Turntable(s)"? -- FrederikSOlesen 10:12, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Shanai

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Shehnai

• • AKA:
  • Description: A double reed conical oboe, common in North India (Wikipedia)
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Raaven (track 6, entered as oboe)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Shime-daiko

• • AKA: 締太鼓
  • Description: A small Japanese drum which has a higher pitch than a normal taiko.
  • Wikipedia: Shime-daiko
  • Instrument Family: Percussion / ... / Taiko
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 幸せきょうりゅう音頭
    • Release 2: 直感2〜逃した魚は大きいぞ!〜
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Sintir

• • AKA: سنتير‎, Guembri (Arabic: الكمبري‎), Gimbri or Hejhouj.
  • Description: three stringed skin-covered bass plucked lute.
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Midwinter Night's Dream
    • Release 2: Naked Lunch
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Slapstick

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a wooden whip - 'The other type also has two planks of woods, one longer than the other, with one handle, connected with a spring hinge so it can be played with just one hand, though it cannot produce sounds as loud as a whip requiring both hands.'
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Soprano Guitar

• • AKA: Octave Guitar
  • Description: Tuned one octave over an ordinary guitar
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Hoven Droven, track 3
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Spilåpipa

• • AKA:
  • Description: Swedish folk music instrument: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spil%C3%A5pipa
  • Instrument Family: Flutes
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Återbesök i holken, track 5
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Spinet

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A small piano, harpsichord or organ
  • Instrument Family: Keyboard
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Spike
    • Release 2: In meiner Mitte on track 5
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Steelwhistle

• • AKA:
  • Description: Similar to a tin whistle??
  • Instrument Family:
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: After the Fall
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Strum Stick

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Sub Octivider

• • AKA:
  • Description: An effect pedal for electric guitars
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Coda
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Suling

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Suona

• • AKA: Laba
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A woodwind instrument used frequently in the folk music of northern China. With its loud and high-pitched sound, souna has, together with other instruments, been used to provide music of Chinese opera and for various occasions, such as wedding and funeral.
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Lingering
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Surbahar

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Swarmandel

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

SynthAxe

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Tack piano

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a permanently altered version of an ordinary piano
  • Instrument Family: Keyboard
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Le Pop
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Tamborim

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A small, round Brazilian frame drum of Portuguese and African origin. The frame is 6" in diameter and may be made of metal, plastic or wood. The head is typically made of nylon and is normally very tightly tuned in order to ensure a high, sharp sound and a minimum of sustain. The drum is devoid of snares or jingles
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
      • What is this? -- FrederikSOlesen 10:12, 09 March 2008 (UTC)
        • As I said, this is simply using their list to compare against, but I would imagine is this instrument. That would seem to fit with Discogs' description: "A small, round Brazilian frame drum of Portuguese and African origin. The frame is 6" in diameter and may be made of metal, plastic or wood. The head is typically made of nylon and is normally very tightly tuned in order to ensure a high, sharp sound and a minimum of sustain. The drum is devoid of snares or jingles." -- BrianSchweitzer 11:46, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Tap dancing

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Gibraltar
    • Release 2: Who Used to Dance
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. See discussion below.

Tapboard

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. There's a (bad) picture at http://www.mandy.co.uk/it-bites/articles/PR_D3_88.HTML, seems to be some strange guitarlike-thing. -- BrianSchweitzer

Tape

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Another Green World by Brian Eno
    • Release 2: Skybrudd (many songs) by Various Artists.
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Tar (drum)

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A tar is a single-headed frame drum. The tar comes from North Africa and the Middle East.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Tindfjöll has tar performed by Matthieu Rabaté
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Tárogató

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Temple Bells

• • AKA:
  • Temple Bells
  • Description: a Japanese wind chime
  • Instrument Family: Percussion?
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Tenor trombone

• • AKA:
  • Description: Variation of trombone
  • Instrument Family: Wind brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Skybrudd (track 9), performed by Gaute Vikdal
    • Release 2: Nut Sack
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Thon

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Described in the liner as 'Thai drums'. Wikipedia describes it as a "goblet-shaped drum, played with the hands".
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: New York Counterpoint
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • BrianSchweitzer 03:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Timber flute

• • AKA:
  • image search
  • Description: Maybe a kind of celtic flute
  • Instrument Family: Flute
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Celtic Moon (Cormac Breatnach)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Time Machine

• • AKA: Folktek Time Machine
  • Wikipedia: ?
  • Description: A type of custom sequencer / samplable synthesiser made by Folktek
  • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Freak Controller - Salmonella Dub
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Tipple

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a stringed musical instrument that is smaller that a guitar and larger than a ukulele, having aspects of both.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Tonkori

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a plucked string instrument played by the Ainu people of Hokkaidō, northern Japan and Sakhalin. It is unfretted and has between three and five strings which are not stopped but instead played "open."
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Trautonium

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family:
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Tromboon

• • AKA: Babone
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: PDQ Bach - The Seasonings
    • Release 2: PDQ Bach - Serenude (for devious instruments)
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Tumbi

• • Description: A traditional North Indian high pitched, single string plucking instrument from the Punjab region associated with folk music of Punjab and presently very popular in Western Bhangra music.
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: In the Zone (Me Against the Music (Rishi Rich's Desi Kulcha mix))
    • Release 2: Miss E... So Addictive (Get Ur Freak On)
    • Release 3: The Album (Mundian to bach ke)
    • Release 4: Rise & Fall (Rise & Fall (Rishi Rich Desi Kulcha remix) (feat. Juggy D))
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Tüngür

• • AKA: tünggür, düngür, dünggü
  • Tüngür
  • Description: A Tuvan Shamen drum
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Valiha

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a bamboo tube zither from Madagascar. It is played by plucking the strings, which may be made of metal or (originally) the bamboo skin which is pried up in long strands and propped up by small bridges.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Sensual World
    • Release 2: WALL·E
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Veena

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a plucked stringed instrument used in Carnatic music. There are several variations of the veena, which in its South Indian form is a member of the lute family.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Viol / treble viol / viola da gamba / bass viol / violone / vihuela / viola da mano / Spanish vihuela / Mexican vihuela

Viol - (copying this section out of my original listing of the Viol in revision 198):

• Viol - for "early music" and period instruments classical recordings
  • treble viol
  • viola da gamba - A tenor viol, evolved from the vihuela de arco

• According to Wikipedia, "viol" and "viola da gamba" are the same... ? -- FrederikSOlesen 08:45, 01 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia uses the terms somewhat confusingly, using the historical term and the modern term interchangably. "Viol" is generic, and one can (anachranistically) refer to the "Viola da gamba" family (as their linked to Viola da Gamba Society does) - the term once was used for all types, with octive ranges prefixed. So in the 1700's, one might have played a bass viola da gamba. In modern terminology, however, though the term can still be used generically for the family, "Viol" is the much more commonly used generic term, with the particular octive types titled as listed here ("bass viol", "treble viol", etc), with a reference to "so and so: viola da gamba" specifically being intended to mean what that same 1700's player would have called a tenor viola da gamba. When I layed out this instrument list, from Viol down to Mexican vihuela, I tried to lay it out as the tree would branch out under modern terminology. (While the "Viol" at top could be "Viola da Gamba", having it twice, once as the specific and once as the anachronicstic generic seems like it'd be much more confusing.) -- BrianSchweitzer 09:12, 01 May 2008 (UTC)

• • bass viol
  • violone - Sub-type of the viol family, evolved into the modern double bass
  • vihuela - Subtype of the viol, has a few different subtypes itself:
    • viola da mano (aka Spanish vihuela) - evolved into the classical guitar
    • Mexican vihuela - Mariachi

Baritone Viola

• • AKA:
  • Description: A viola with heavy strings which plays an octave lower?
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: English Fiddler: Swarbrick Plays Swarbrick
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Violino piccolo

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A stringed instrument of the baroque period. Most examples are similar to a child's size violin in size, and are tuned a third or a fourth higher.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 3
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Weissenborn Guitar

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Specific type of lap steel guitar
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Border of Heaven
    • Release 2: Vapaapäivä on track 5
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • See 8653789 -- TimVanHolder 20:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Whistling Water Jar

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Wind Chimes

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion?
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: CREID on track 7 (as wind chime)
    • Release 2: Never Better on track 3
    • Release 3: Ode to Life
    • Release 4: Διάφανος
    • Release 5: kiRite (as wind chime)
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
      • We have "Chimes"... ? -- FrederikSOlesen 10:12, 09 March 2008 (UTC)
        • They list both "Chimes" and "Wind Chimes" as separate types; I'd imagine they're distinguishing between standard percussion chimes and real wind chimes as a subtype. -- BrianSchweitzer 11:46, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Wooden Bowl

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: New York Counterpoint
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Probably quite similar logic to the Wooden spoons below. I also have seen another release (A Canticle for Leibowitz) with a Pyrex bowl (ie, 'glass bowl') credit, in both cases used as a percussion instrument. -- BrianSchweitzer 03:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Wooden spoons

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion?
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Dark Ages
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Alexsander Hrenov is credited playing wooden spoons on Dark Ages. We do have spoons included in the instruments list but does the matterial of the instrument deserve to be included as separate entries? I don't know spoons as an instrument but if there's just a small selection of spoons in different materials availble we might as well include it. -- Prodoc 15:20, 08 March 2008 (UTC)
      • Well, wooden and metal (kitchen) spoons are by far the most common types of spoons, though bone/horn spoons are also out there. As a spoons player, I could probably give you a lengthier rant about the qualities of each type, but for the sake of this discussion, let me just say that there are different kinds of spoons, and the material does have an effect on the produced sound. :) -- FrederikSOlesen 00:03, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Xiao

• • AKA: 箫, 簫, 洞箫, 洞簫, dòngxiāo
  • Description: A Chinese end-blown flute
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Winds / ... / End-blown flute
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 聲聲醉如蘭。
    • Release 2: 殤 (Xiao Solo: Zhang Wei-Liang)
    • Release 3: 三笑 (華夏室內樂團 葉聰指揮) (played by Zhang Weiliang)
    • Release 4: 筝美人
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Zhaleika

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Discussion

With regards to "generic" stuff, I just noticed there's no way for ARs that use the tree, like "arranged", to identify simply "arranged orchestral parts" or "arranged vocals", or similar arrangement roles. They're not instruments, but if we're going to reuse the tree for those types of ARs as well, perhaps those types of "super-generics" also ought to have a place in the revised tree? -- BrianSchweitzer 06:44, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

We have Greek baglama and Turkish baglama, but no generic "baglama" for where the specific baglama type is unspecified. -- BrianSchweitzer 02:52, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

• Is this a point for discussion or a suggestion to have a generic "baglama" added to this list? If it's the former, what exactly do you want to discuss? If it's the latter, go and add it to the list of suggestions above! -- FrederikSOlesen 10:22, 09 March 2008 (UTC)
  • For all three, I put them under discussion, as they don't seem to really be "instruments" to be added, more a general observation - I caught three (four if you include 'electronic wind instruments'), but there's perhaps others, where we have specific types, but no abstracted type. It'd perhaps be useful to take a look through the list for any other such instances I've missed, where we jump right to the specific types, without also providing the unspecified generic as an option, to avoid people being forced into 'guessed credits'. -- BrianSchweitzer 11:46, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Along the same lines as the baglama, we have three dulcimers scattered in the list (Appalachian, Hammered, and Đàn tam thập lục), but no generic "dulcimer" listing. -- BrianSchweitzer 03:14, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

• Is this a point for discussion or a suggestion to have a generic "dulcimer" added to this list? If it's the former, precisely what do you want to discuss? If it's the latter, go and add it to the list of suggestions above! -- FrederikSOlesen 10:22, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

"Mbira (Mbira, (sansa, kalimba, luvale, karimba, marimbula, matape)) (7)" - I would suggest that this one is named such that it's unclear; the kalimba can be either the modern thumb piano, or the entire family, but the mbira is specifically the traditional thumb piano used within Zimbabwe. "Kalimba (Mbira, (sansa, kalimba, luvale, karimba, marimbula, matape)) (7)" would make much more sense. -- BrianSchweitzer 02:52, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

While we have lots of types of pipe, we have no generic "pipe". -- BrianSchweitzer 02:52, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

• Is this a point for discussion or a suggestion to have a generic "pipe" added to this list? If it's the former, could you elaborate more on what it is you want to discuss? If it's the latter, go and add it to the list of suggestions above! -- FrederikSOlesen 10:22, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Would be nice if the entry for "Jew's Harp" was changed into "Jew's Harp / Trump". Unless you know the instrument, it's easy to assume that "trump" is a kind of trumpet. -- TimVanHolder 21:00, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

• According to Wikipedia, "trump" can mean either a Jew's harp or a trumpet (or a blow in a trumpet). -- FrederikSOlesen 08:26, 01 May 2008 (UTC)

Synths

Why shouldn't particular types of synth be added? They're frequently listed on CDs and some people care what type of synth was played. Why not make them subtypes of 'Synthesizer'. PaulSharpe

• Because it's impossible to keep up with them all, especially considering the protracted process by which new instruments need to go through before they are added. I've said time and time again that this is all NUTS - what we need are a few (50 tops) instrument/role macro-categories, and then a free text field by which users can input qualifiers. Eg: "Synthesizer [[[Mini Moog|MiniMoog]]]". --Gecks
  • Free text fields are not possible in the current AdvancedRelationships implementation. (And also I think a mixture of a list and free text is counter productive, but well..) You guys are just too impatient. :) Let mo finish his job of restructuring the tree and after that he will create a wiki page to make the process of adding instruments much faster. Noone will die inbetween. And it will prevent total chaos to do it structured and in this order. --Shepard

The number of different synths produced numbers in the several hundreds. Roland alone has made well over 100 different synths and tone generators. Do you want to start listing all of those? That's a slipperly slope to be on. Besides, they are just models and brands. In the end the artist is still playing a synthesizer. If we start listing those then to be consistent we'd have to list the brand and model of all of the other instruments. Does it matter that Jaco Pastorius played a Fender Precision Bass on most of his albums or can we be content to know that he played electric bass guitar? Likewise, does it really matter that Lyle Mays played a Korg Triton and a Steinway Grand on the last Pat Metheny album or is knowing that he played synthesizer and piano enough? MattPerry

Dancing

• Dancing - Occasionally, I stumble upon releases and tracks which have someone credited as "dancer" or with "dancing"
  • Stepdancing - I also see step dancing every now and then (actually, probably more often than simply dancing). --FrederikSOlesen 2007-04-17T07:52:33CEST (I will provide links to releases with these credits as soon as I get around making that WikiPage I talked about yesterday in IRC.)
  • maybe Tapdancing, which is apparently a subtype of stepdancing - on Who Used to Dance (actually represented as "percussion instruments performed by Savion Glover"), and probably a lot more releases (Musicals' stuff).
    • BrianSchweitzer pointed out that Discogs lists "Tap Dancing" as an instrument. -- FrederikSOlesen 19:21, 06 May 2008 (UTC)

• I'm not really sure there is a point in crediting things that don't have a relation with the recorded sound (eg: "My mother made the cookies"), and possibly we may define this "instrument" only when it actually has a "part"? -- dmppanda 09:09, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Well, all the dancing credits I thought of in my above proposal actually have a "part" in the sound picture. Step dance in particular is used in "Celtic" music for percussion, in line with bodhrán, bones, and spoons. -- FrederikSOlesen 13:02, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
    • krazykiwi says there's a band called 'Tilly and the Wall' who make a feature out of having a tap dancer instead of a drummer (both live and on recordings). -- mikemorr
      • Born Again Floozies also use tap dancers and a bass drum instead of a drummer -- jdc0730

Mo, no interest in H'arpeggione, Hardanger Fiddle, Spinet, Rebec, Lira da braccio, Viol, treble viol, viola da gamba, bass viol, violone, vihuela, viola da mano, Mexican vihuela, xiao, yali tambur, saz, tar, setar, kamenchech, fasil kemenche, santur, sarangi, santoor, rubab, komuz, dotar, pipa, er-hu, matouqin, gu zeng, gu qin, zhong ruan, charango, ronroco, waylaycho, tiple, requinto, sonqo, patasi charango, South American mandolin, quatro, tambura, instrumental tambura, vocal tambura, valiha, kalimba, or Vocal Role: "Percussion"? (All lost in the revert)... Foolip's working on Chinese releases (have we ever before had someone working on them to need Chinese instruments?) and I'm working on a 170 CD set of classical on period instruments. Even if there's not yet 5 releases listed in here to justify adding each of these yet, shouldn't they still be listed? (For vocal percussion, if anyone can edit that table, I can provide links to at least 30 releases in the db for which it would be needed) -- BrianSchweitzer 15:35, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

• I'm not very familiar with the instruments of Chinese classical music, but there are annotations on 殤 and 三笑 where a few instruments are listed. -- foolip 03:15, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
  • foolip, I can't read the script, but perhaps those are among these? (Copied out from revision 198) rubab, komuz, dotar, pipa, er-hu, matouqin, gu zeng, gu qin, zhong ruan Uzbeki/Mongol/Chinese/Other Asian guitar/bowed/plucked string instruments -- BrianSchweitzer 09:17, 01 May 2008 (UTC)
  Several of the instruments you list, Brian, are already in the tree – please check Advanced Instrument Tree before requesting instruments for addition! Also, vocal stuff, like "Vocal role: percussion", doesn't belong here at all, but rather in the AdvancedVocalTree. -- FrederikSOlesen 14:10, 02 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Freso, if ou look at the revision that was reverted out there, at the time those were not. On the specific vocal percussion role, I even at the time specifically made mention of the fact that this wasn't perhaps the right place for it - but also mentioned that there is no page for that tree, nor did it seem to make sense to make an entirely new VocalAdditionDiscussion page for such a small tree with so few conceivable potential additions. -- BrianSchweitzer 16:56, 06 May 2008 (UTC)
    • I know for a fact that "hardangerfele" has been in the tree for as long as I've been around MB, so unless you made the list before Summer 2006... no. AdvancedVocalTree has also been around for a while - but then, I don't really get where you're going with that bit of your comment. Sorry. -- FrederikSOlesen 17:58, 06 May 2008 (UTC)

Singular or Plural (parent) instruments

Parent instruments are named with inconsistent singular and plural form at the moment (e.g. 'Horn', 'Valved brass instruments', 'Flute' and 'Drums'). Some of the parent intruments are instruments of them selfves (e.g. 'Horn'), some are just a group indication (e.g. 'Valved brass instruments'). Both types can, and should be allowed to, be used in AR's depending on how someone is credited. I think this should be done in a more consitent manner. Away From Here is one example where one is credited arranging 'Horns' instead of just 'Horn'. There is, however, no plural form of 'Horn' available while the group 'Violins' does have 'Violin' in singular form included.

In the most accurate situation we should do the same for every group indication as we do for 'Violins' and 'Violin' thus e.g. changing 'Horn' to 'Horns' and adding 'Horn' as a sub instrument. This might, however, result in a drastic increase of the instrument list (not that it isn't already way too big but stil ;-)). Another option would be to change at least all of the parent intruments to use the 'Horn(s)' form and thus removing the singular forms like 'Violin' from the list. The downside would be that the AR's won't be as accurate as can be. Of course, we could simply make everything singular or plural but somehow this doesn't really appeal to me ;-) -- Prodoc 14:43, 08 March 2008 (UTC)

Failed, and why

Indian Strings

• Indian Strings NOTE: will not be added as it is too generic - what should we use when it's listed on a CD as an instrument then? -- Then try to find out exactly what kind of Indian stringed instrument it is. See: http://chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/instruments.html

Tabla

• Tabla already here, see Goblet Drum

Guitar synthesizer

• Guitar synthesizer This shouldn't be added either. Just because you added a MIDI pickup to your guitar it doesn't change the fact that you're still playing a guitar.

• I dispute this simplistic rejection, personally, and think it should be revisited. There are already many "specialized" versions of instruments listed on the current instrument tree, so this as a specialized electric guitar makes sense to me. There are also specialised Guitar Synth players; and all-in-one guitars that can be purchased. From Wikipedia "While the term "MIDI guitar" is often used as a synonym for the field of guitar/synthesis or for a guitar/synthesizer, MIDI is not always used. While most synthesizers use a keyboard interface to allow the performer to play the instrument, because synthesizers generate sounds electronically, a range of input devices can actuate them.[1] A guitar/synthesizer provides an interface which is familiar to a guitarist, allowing the guitarist to play synthesized sounds through the guitar. This diminishes the need for the guitarist to learn to play a keyboard, and allows for musical effects which are natural for a guitar but more difficult or impossible to produce using a keyboard." The fact that you can't achieve the same sound from a traditional synth keyboard or a regular electric guitar makes this distinct from both a "synth" and a "guitar". IMO, an instrument credit should represent both the input mechanism AND the sound that is produced. I mean, we even have both lap steel guitar and electric guitar... Neither "electric guitar" nor "synthesizier" accurately represent the play style and sound here. --Voiceinsideyou 06:04, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

• I'd agree with Voiceinsideyou. If the saxophone synthesizer (aka EWI / Electronic Wind Instrument) could be added - and I think it was correct that we did add it - then I don't see any reason why a string instrument equivalent should be barred. If it is simply the addition of a MIDI pickup, that's one thing, but as Voice suggests, that's not the entirety of what might be meant by 'guitar syth'. BrianFreud 01:35, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

E-mu synthesizer

• E-mu synthesizer This is just a brand of synth. It should not be added.

Yamaha DX7

• Yamaha DX7 This is just a brand and model of synth. It should not be added.

Cymbalum

• Cymbalum already in here, see list : )

Kalimba

• Kalimba: Steve Hackett played Kalimba on Wind & Wuthering. - jongetje

It's already in the list - look under "mbira". -- BrianSchweitzer 12:27, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Bandoneon

Included in Free reed section as Bandoneón.

Clàrsach

• A "clàrsach" and an Irish harp are the same, the only difference is whether the instrument or player or tune is from Ireland or Scotland. Which, IMHO, isn't enough to warrant its own entry. (And I play one, so I should be as eager as anyone to have as much granularity as possible in this area!) I'd support renaming "Irish harp" to "Irish harp / Clàrsach" though. -- FrederikSOlesen 18:40, 05 May 2008 (UTC)
• Added to Irish harp as "Irish harp / Clàrsach". -- Reosarevok 18:31, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Cümbüş

• I am not sure what the English word is, but Wikipedia also list it as Cümbüş and I never heard another saying for it. Many Turkish folk songs includes it. --syserror
• already there, but because of the accents it's impossible to search for. it's just below biwa in the tree. Nikki 18:46, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Recently Added

• Basset-horn
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Premium Edition (disc 7: Divertimenti Nos. 1-5 for 2 Clarinets & Basset Horn, K. 439b/1-5/KV Anh 229/1-5)
    • Release 2: Works for Basset Horn and Strings (basset horn: Paul Gallo, violin: Barbara Long, viola: Jack Rosenberg)
    • Release 3: Clarinet Quintet K. 581 / Clarinet Quartet K. 374f (Danubius Quartet feat. clarinet: József Balogh)
    • Release 4: The Clarinet in Concert (London Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra feat. clarinet: Thea King) (disc 1)
    • Release 5: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Complete Works, Volume 3: Serenades, Divertimenti, Dances (disc 12: Divertimenti K. 439b Nos. 4-6 For 2 Clarinets & Bassoon)

• Chalumeau
  • Appears On:
    • Release 2: Concerti per mandolini / Concerti con molti strumenti (Europa Galante feat. violin: Fabio Biondi)
    • Release 3: Wind Concertos / Symphony "Il grillo" (Wiener Akademie feat. conductor: Martin Haselböck)

• Cuatro
  • Appears On:
    • Releases 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8: All the releases by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra
    • Releases 9, 10, 11: All the releases by Simón Díaz

• Taragot
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: http://musicbrainz.org/release/11e675a2-e3d0-435f-8f78-98e15d4a3fb0.html (Dumitru Fărcaș)
    • Release 2: http://musicbrainz.org/release/03f67e07-fda7-40e8-8f12-96ab310a7297.html (Luca Novac)
    • Release 3: http://musicbrainz.org/release/e24d9dcc-0c33-462e-bd08-41c77a71bc3b.html (Dumitru Fărcaș)
    • Release 4: http://musicbrainz.org/release/38d41036-5ca1-4e9e-958d-4519bd85b491.html
    • Release 5: http://musicbrainz.org/release/df98afe0-2e34-4c83-b4e3-cd92cdd080d6.html

• Marxophone

• Electronic Wind Instrument
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Moonlighting
    • Release 2: Welcome to the St. James' Club
    • Release 3: Weekend in Monaco
    • Release 4: Live in LA
    • Release 5: Brave New World

• Box / Sruti Box
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Complete Songs of Robert Burns, Volume 3
    • Release 2: This Earthly Spell (Sruti Box)
    • Release 3: Afinke Machine
    • Release 4: World Library of Folk and Primitive Music: India
    • Release 5: Natural Elements
  • Comments:
    • Some tracks on The Complete Songs of Robert Burns, Volume 3 credit a musician with "Box", which from the sound is a kind of accordion (see edits 7546921 & 7547611). Since other tracks on the same releases credit that same musician with "accordion", it seems that "box" is intended to refer to a specific instrument rather than it simply being a generic name for an accordion. -- TimVanHolder 20:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
      • Looks like this may also be a Sruti Box (also http://www.shrutibox.com/), and Indian harmonium-like instrument (see 8704118). -- TimVanHolder 21:00, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
      • Actually, a box is most often used as a generic term for double (or single (or, in rare instances, triple)) rowed button accordions (which are, AFAIK, always diatonic). -- FrederikSOlesen 17:41, 05 May 2008 (UTC)

• Bass Saxophone
  • Appears On:
    • Release 2: Swing Low
    • Release 3: Low Life
    • Release 4: Solo Pour Deux
    • Release 5: Going Hollywood

• Farfisa
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Pink Floyd – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
    • Release 3: Electrelane – I Love You My Farfisa
    • Release 4: Klaus Schulze – Timewind
    • Release 5: James Blackshaw – Celeste

• Finger Snaps
  • Appears On:
    • Release 4: Fearless on track 4, Hey Stephen
    • Release 5: Affordable Art on track 4, Talk Backwards

• Sopranino Saxophone

• Voice Synthesizer
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: VocaL@ntis ～初音ミクがランティスのネ申曲を歌ってみた～
    • Release 2-8: supercell feat. 初音ミク 6 albums/singles, voice synth programmed by ryo
    • Release 9: Hatsune Miku -Project DIVA- Original Song Collection, credits on Lantis web site
    • Release 10: EXIT TUNES PRESENTS Vocalostar feat.初音ミク - has voice manipulators credited as track artists.
    • Release 11: Heartsnative, programming by 鶴田加茂 (from Heartsnative)

• Stroh violin
  • Appears On:
    • Release 4: Sad Machinery of Spring
  • Comments:
    • Toni Marcus has a credit for "stroviola" on Into the Music

• Zheng
• Talkbox

• Hi-hat
  • Appears On:
    • Release 2: Man mognar med åren on track 9
    • Release 4: Affinis Suite on multiple tracks.

• Bass Synthesizer
  • • Tagged with instrument-bass synthesizer
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Sevilla on tracks 1 and 2

• Batá drum
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Kärlek & politik
    • Release 5: Seguida III, as indicated in the (lousy promo copypasted) annotation for the artist Seguida

• Dizi
• Kaval
• Sarangi
• Zill
• Tom-tom
• Tzoura
• Music box
• Bass Harmonica
• Charango
• Tar (lute)

• Slide bass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Bootlicker
    • Release 2: The Crybaby

• Wurlitzer electric piano
  • Appears On:
    • Release 4: Sevilla on tracks 5 and 6

• Shinobue
• Soprano Recorder
• Chamber Organ

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