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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 page.

Instruments with 5 releases listed

Proposed Instrument List

5-string fiddle

    • AKA: 5-string violin
    • Description: Tim Phillips says "Made to be tuned with a low C then G D A E, these 5 string violins have normal violin string length and spacing, so they are played like a normal violin."
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

5-string viola

    • Description: A viola with an additional e string allowing the musician to play violin tunes more easily
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Played by Mikael Marin on I lust och glöd
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

5-string cello

    • Description: A cello with an additional upper e string. Exists in baroque music and nowadays in non classical context (ex: Folk music)
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Played by Leonor Palazzo on Septentrio
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:


7-string guitar

    • AKA: 7-string acoustic guitar
    • Description: an acoustic guitar with 7 strings
    • Instrument Family: Strings/Plucked string instruments
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Menina Played by Luiz Otávio Braga on track 5, credited as Spanish acoustic guitar
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

10-string guitar

11-string guitar

    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Accordina

    • AKA:
    • Description: it's a free reed musical instrument like the accordion or harmonica, more information
    • Instrument Family: Free reed
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Acoustic Instruments

    • AKA:
    • Description: Generic instrument credit
    • Instrument Family: Instruments
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:
      • We already have Electronic Instruments in the tree.

Afoxé

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: Afro-brazilian instrument, a small xequerê
    • Instrument Family: Percussion / ... / rattle
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

African Harp

Airpoles

    • AKA: Air poles, Angel Air Poles, Wiper Air Poles, Sword Air Poles
    • Description: long fiberglass rods that make a whiplike sound when waved through the air
    • Instrument Family: Percussion/Other?
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: The Complex
      • Release 2: Audio on all tracks (played by all three members)
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:
      • Angel air poles, wiper air poles and sword air poles are subtypes of this instrument. Since I doubt this instrument will ever be added, I'll leave them as aliases for now. -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 09:38, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Alfaia drum

    • AKA: Alfaia
    • Description:
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Indeecios credits Tikogó for "alfaia drum"
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Aman khuur

    • AKA: Khel khuur, khulsan khuur, tömör khuur (with many spelling variations including: aman huur, aman xuur, hel huur, xel xuur, hulsan huur, xulsan xuur, tömör huur, tömör xuur), ヘル・ホール
    • Description: A Mongolian Jew's harp.
    • Instrument Family: Wind instruments / ... / Jew's harp
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Analog synthesizer

    • AKA: Analog synth
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and techniques to produce sound
    • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments/.../Synthesizer
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Anvil

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: a blacksmith's anvil played as a percussion instrument
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appear On:
      • Release 1: The Complex
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Arghul

    • AKA: argul, arghoul, arghool, argol, or yarghul
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: a traditional Egyptian double-pipe, single-reed woodwind instrument
    • Instrument Family: Woodwind -> Reeds -> Singular reed
    • Appear On:
    • Comments:

Aronophonic

    • AKA:
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Percussion?
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Audio
      • 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 Played by Babatunde Olatunji and Kehinde O'Uhuru, credited as percussion
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Atabaque

Auto parts

    • AKA: Car parts
    • Description: Various automobile parts played as percussion instruments
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Let Them Talk (played by Jay Bellerose)
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Backpack Tubulum

    • AKA:
    • Description: a small tubulum designed to be portable
    • Instrument Family: Tuned percussion
    • Appears On:
    • 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: Sustainer guitar
    • Description: A modified electric guitar that uses electromagnetic waves to vibrate the strings
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Not Too Late on track 5
      • 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)
          • You might want to read this. It's a pretty interesting contraption (and yes, it is a separate and unique instrument). -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 20:40, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Bajo sexto

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Balalaika double bass

    • AKA: contrabass balalaika
    • Wikipedia
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
    • 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

Four-string Banjo

    • AKA:
    • Description: a banjo, with four strings
    • Instrument Family: Strings, Banjo
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Banjo-ukelele

Baritone Bouzouki

    • AKA: Barizouki
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:
      • It's entirely possible that Ben Mandelson invented this instrument. There's a description here. Jprucher (talk) 21:26, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Bass violin

    • AKA: Basse de violon
    • Description: Bass violin is the modern term for various 16th and 17th-century bass instruments of the violin (i.e. "viola da braccio") family. They were the direct ancestor of the modern cello. Bass violins were usually somewhat larger than the modern cello, but tuned the same or sometimes just one step lower than it. Contemporary names for these instruments include "basso de viola da braccio," "basso da braccio," or the generic term "violone," which simply meant "large fiddle." The instrument differed from the violone of the viol, or "viola da gamba" family in that like the other violins it had at first three, and later usually four strings, as opposed to five, six, or seven strings, it was tuned in fifths, and it had no frets. With its F-holes and stylized C-bouts it also more closely resembled the viola da braccio.
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
    • Comments: On rare occasions this term is used as a synonym for the double bass.

Resozouki

    • AKA:
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:
      • It's entirely possible that Ben Mandelson invented this instrument. See this page. Jprucher (talk) 21:30, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Baroque cello

    • Description: From the wiki article for baroque violin: "any violin whose neck, fingerboard, bridge, and tailpiece are of the type used during the baroque period. [...] 'Baroque cellos' [...] also exist, with similar modifications made to their form."
    • Instrument Family: Cello
    • Appears On:

Baroque Guitar

Baroque Lute

Baroque Violin

Bapang

Bass Bodhrán

Bass Trumpet

    • Instrument Family: Brass
    • Description: A type of low trumpet which was first developed during the 1820s in Germany.
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Horn Played by Noah Gladstone, credited as trumpet
      • Release 2: Everything Is Everything as "Trumpet" by Cyril Touff
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:

Bass Marimba

Bicycle bell

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: a metal level-activated bell like what would be found on a bicycle
    • Instrument Family: Tuned percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Straight Outta Lynwood Played by Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on track 2, credited as bells
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Big Drum

    • AKA:
    • Description: a giant drum similar to a bass drum in a marching band
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Audio
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Bird call

    • AKA:
    • Description: a wooden or metal whistle made to sound like a bird's song
    • Instrument Family: Winds
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Straight Outta Lynwood Played by Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on track 5, credited as tin whistle
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:
      • A duck call is a type of bird call. Maybe it should be filed under this when and if it gets added. -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 04:41, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Bougarabou

Bouzoukomana

    • AKA: Μπουζουκομάνα
    • Description: A larger version of the bouzouki
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
    • Comments: Not used very often. Made more well known by Θανάσης Παπακωνσταντίνου who used it on a lot of his albums. Example of one such organ for sale can be seen here: http://goo.gl/9xxPE

Broom Stick

    • AKA:
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Bulb horn

    • AKA: Bicycle horn, taxi horn, squeeze horn
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: a small metal horn sounded by squeezing a rubber bulb (often found on bicycles and early automobiles)
    • Instrument Family: Winds/Other
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Straight Outta Lynwood Track 5 as horn
      • Release 2: Alpocalypse Played by Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on track 5, credited as horn
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Calabash

    • Description: A percussion instrument consisting of a dried half calabash, of large size, that is struck with the palms, fingers, wrist or objects to produce a variety of percussive sounds.
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Car horn

    • AKA: Vehicle horn, novelty horn, クラクション
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: an electric horn like what would be found in a car
    • Instrument Family: Winds/Electronic Instruments/Other
    • Appears On:
    • Comments: In Japan, the term "klaxon" (クラクション) is used to refer to both car horns and actual klaxons. In the context of 3rd -LOVEパラダイス- (the English word "Klaxon" is even listed in the liner notes) it refers to a car horn, not an industrial klaxon. -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 23:20, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Chainsaw

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: A powered tool primarily used in the cutting of wood
    • Instrument Family: Other
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Chirimia

Chitarra battente

Cimbasso

Tenor cittern

    • AKA:
    • Description: Tenor Cittern
    • Instrument Family: cittern
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: The Imagined Village (Track 7, played by Simon Emmerson, listed as other string instruments)
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Clarinet in D

Combo organ

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: a small, portable electronic organ
    • Instrument Family: Electronic organ
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: JET CD as electronic organ
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Commodore 64

Computer hard drive "triangle"

    • Description: presumably the platter from a computer hard drive, played as a triangle.
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
    • 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:
    • Comments:

Baritone concertina

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: A baritone version of the concertina, transposing one octave down.
    • Instrument Family: Free-reed aerophone
    • Appears On:
    • 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:
    • Comments:

Contra-alto Clarinet

    • AKA: "Sometimes incorrectly referred to as the EE♭ contrabass clarinet," according to Wikipedia
    • Wikipedia
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Clarinet
    • Appears On:
    • 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:
    • Comments:

Contratambura

    • AKA:
    • Description: a lower-register tambura.
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:
      • There's a picture of various tamburs in different registers (including contra) here.

Corno da caccia

Craviola

Cromorne

Cuíca guitar

    • AKA:
    • Description: some kind of combination of a cuíca and a guitar?
    • Instrument Family: Percussion/strings?
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Audio
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Daibouka

    • AKA:
    • Description: Not sure; some kind of percussion instrument (but NOT another name for the darbuk)
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Aura
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:
  • I thought at first that this was another name for the darbuk (goblet drum, in the tree) but then I noticed that the same artist (Luis Jardim) is credited with playing the "dunbec" (another name for the same instrument) along with this. I tried Googling for it but nothing came up. Can anyone help? --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 02:37, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Damper

    • AKA: Guitar damper, damper pedal (?)
    • Description: A type of guitar effect device
    • Instrument Family: Electronic or Other Instruments (depending on which one this turns out to be)
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Astro Lounge as electronic instruments (played by Chris Racine)
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments: I initially thought this was a type of effects pedal, but I learned it could also mean a plastic device placed under the strings to dampen the sound. It's possible the term could be used for both. -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 10:49, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Dictaphone

    • Wikipedia
    • Description: Speech playback device
    • Instrument Family: Other instruments
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Diddley bow

    • Wikipedia
    • Description: The diddley bow is a string instrument of African origin made popular in America, probably developed from instruments found on the Ghana coast of west Africa. The diddley bow is rarely heard outside the rural south. Other nicknames for this instrument include “jitterbug” or “one-string,” while an ethnomusicologist would formally call it a “monochord zither.”
    • Instrument Family: string instrument
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Djoze

    • AKA: djoza, djosa, djoé
    • Links: Wikipédia:Djoza, Djoze
    • Description: Small fiddle-like Iraqi instrument.
    • Instrument Family: string instrument
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Al Palna (played by Anwar Abudragh, credited as other string instruments)
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Doppler Toms

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

Double harp

    • AKA:
    • Description: "The double, cross-strung harp is an instrument of Spanish origin which developed across the Iberian peninsula between the mid-1500s and the mid-1700s, being used for both sacred and secular music. The accompaniment on this recording is provided exclusively by the double harp – another first, as this practice, once widespread, has over the centuries been entirely forgotten." (from Naxos)
    • Instrument Family: harp
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Drill

    • AKA: Power drill
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: A power tool used to bore holes in surfaces.
    • Instrument Family: Other
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: JOURNEY on Track 1
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Drinking glass

    • AKA: Glass, glass cup, wine glass, etc.
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: A glass drinking glass whose rim is rubbed with a wet finger to produce sound (what inspired Benjamin Franklin to invent the glass armonica)
    • Instrument Family: Tuned percussion/Other?
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Intensive Care Track 12 "Wine Glass"
      • Release 2: Let Them Talk on track 12 (credited as "Glass of scotch" in the liner notes, played by Jay Bellerose)
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Drumbone

    • AKA:
    • Description: a PVC pipe instrument with two chambered pieces that slide in and out of each other to alter pitch
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Audio
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Drumulum

    • AKA:
    • Description: a drum with a piece of PVC pipe mounted over it to act as a resonator
    • Instrument Family: Tuned percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: The Complex
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Duck call

Duggi

    • AKA: dugi, dukkar
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: The duggi, dugi or dukkar, is an Indian drum, with a kettle drum shape, played with fingers and palm of the hand. It is a folk drum in Uttar Pradesh (duggi) and Punjab (dukkar).
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Dulcimer

    • AKA:
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
    • 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)
      • According to Wikipedia, "dulcimer" on its own refers to the Appalachian dulcimer. Does anyone know how true that is? I've also removed Wall-E from this list as that page also says that lap dulcimer is another name for Appalachian dulcimer. --Nikki 13:01, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
      • Even so, couldn't we add this as a generic credit (for instances where the release does not specify)? --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 22:37, 23 September 2012 (UTC)


Dulcitone

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: A dulcitone is a keyboard instrument in which sound is produced by a tuning forks which vibrate when struck by hammers activated by the keyboard
    • Instrument Family: Piano
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Dumpster

    • AKA: Dumpstulum
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: an overturned metal dumpster that is jumped on and struck to produce sound
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: The Complex
      • Release 2: Audio on track 12 (played by all three members)
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Dutar

Eagle Bone Whistle

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: Sacred Native American instrument.
    • Instrument Family: Winds
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Effects

E-Flat Bass Tuba

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Brass
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Ektara

    • AKA: iktar, ektar, yaktaro gopichand
    • Description: an Indian one-string plucked instrument
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Electric Acoustic Guitar

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
    • 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:
    • 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

Electric dog toy

    • AKA:
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Other?
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Audio
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Electronic Birds

    • Instrument Family: Other
    • Appears On:

Electronics

    • AKA:
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Other
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:
      • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
      • How is this different from "electronic instruments"?--Reosarevok 11:34, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Extended-range bass guitar

    • AKA: 6 string bass, 7 string bass, etc.
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: An electric bass guitar with greater frequency range than the standard 4-string bass guitar.
    • Instrument Family: Guitars
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:
      • On "Dr. Feelgood", Nikki Sixx is credited as playing 4-string, 8-string and 12-string bass guitars. I merged the separate entries for those instruments into this. If this instrument is ever added to the tree, can we have a text input box stating how many strings? --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 16:26, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Fairground organ

    • AKA:
    • Links:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Pipe Organ
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: The Internationale track 3, played by Lorraine Bowen
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

F Bass Tuba

Field organ

    • AKA:
    • Links: [2]
    • Description: A portable reed organ
    • Instrument Family: Free reed/.../Reed organ
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Let Them Talk as reed organ (played by Patrick Warren)
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:'
    • Comments:

Flageolet

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

Flamenco guitar

    • Description: a guitar traditionally used in flamenco music, smaller and lighter than a normal classical guitar
    • Instrument Family: Guitars
    • Wikipedia
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:
Isn't this just a Spanish acoustic guitar? (already in the tree)
It might be, though Wikipedia identifies "Spanish acoustic guitar" as a synonym for a classical guitar. We might need an expert to clarify.HibiscusKazeneko

Flat mandolin

    • AKA:
    • Description: presumably either a flat-topped or flat-backed mandolin (Google results were inconclusive)
    • Instrument Family: Strings/.../Mandolin
    • Wikipedia
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: MISSLIM Track 7 as mandolin
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:
      • This might be a wasei-eigo term. If anyone knows of any English-language information on this instrument, please let me know. --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 08:26, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Flexitone

    • AKA: Flexatone
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: a rubber-and-metal frame rattle
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Straight Outta Lynwood Played by Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on track 5, credited as vibraslap
      • Release 2: Alpocalypse Played by Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on track 5, credited as other percussion
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Foot bells

    • Description: straps lined with jingle bells worn around a dancer's ankles
    • Instrument Family: Bells
    • Links: [3]
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Frame drum set

    • Description: set of frame drums
    • Instrument Family: Percussion, Frame Drum, Drum set
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:
      • Adding just Rebana may suffice; a Kompang is a smaller version but I believe the same.

Game Boy

    • AKA:
    • Description: the sound chip from the Nintendo Game Boy handheld console, played as a MIDI instrument
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:
      • Which relationships do you need this adding for? I can't see any relationships or annotations on any of those releases... --Nikki 06:29, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
        • It's an instrument credit, so we'll need to figure out who played it on which tracks and so on. Tracking down the people who made all those edits might be difficult at this point. --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 06:35, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Ganzá

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: a Brazilian rattle
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Menina Played by Armando Marçal on tracks 2 and 3 (credited as shakers on track 2, rattle on track 3); played by 小野リサ (Lisa Ono) on track 4 (credited as rattle); played by Marçal on track 12 (credited as rattle)
      • Release 2: Chico Buarque Played by Wilson Canegal on tracks 1, credited as shakers
      • Release 3: Namorada Played by Kazuo Yoshida on track 7
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Gittern

Gizmo

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: An effects device for the electric guitar invented by member of 10cc
    • Instrument Family: Electric guitar
    • Appears On:

Glass Bottle

    • AKA:
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
    • Comments: Isn't this just "jug"? Or is it honestly played as a percussion instrument instead of a wind instrument? -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 05:52, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Glass Bowl

    • AKA:
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Goc

    • AKA:
    • Description: a serbian traditional drum.
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Gong bass drum

    • AKA:
    • Description: Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Drums?
    • Appears On:

Greek lute

    • AKA:
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Grill

    • AKA: Quellium grill
    • Description: a barbecue grill played as a percussion instrument?
    • Instrument Family: Percussion?
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Audio
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:
      • I'm unsure as to what this exactly is. I don't want to call it "Quellium grill" because if this is a barbecue grill, chances are some other artist plays a different model of the same instrument. -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 11:36, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Guitalele

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:
    • Comments:
      • A predecessor of the modern acoustic bass guitar
      • Also a distinct instrument at Discogs
      • Not to be confused with the Guitarrón chileno

Guitorgan

    • AKA:
    • Description: A Guitorgan is an electric guitar with electronic organ components added.
    • Instrument Family: Guitars
    • Wikipedia
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Gwo ka

    • AKA: Gros-Ka, Groska, Gros Ka, Gwoka
    • Description: A family of hand drums.
    • Instrument Family: Drums
    • Wikipedia
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Caribbean Disco by Marcel Magnat
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Halldorophone

    • AKA:
    • Links: [4]
    • Description: Electro-acoustic string instruments in development by Halldór Úlfarsson.
    • Instrument Family: String
    • Appears On:
    • Comments: [5]

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:

Heavenizer

    • AKA: Heavynizer, ヘヴナイザー
    • Links: [6]
    • Description: a custom sampling device invented by Susumu Hirasawa
    • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: ANOTHER GAME All tracks as sampler
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

'Ili'ili

Ilimba

    • Description: Lamellophone from Tanzania. Similar to the Zimbabwean mbira but larger, and is tuned to intervals derived from the overtone series.
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Lamellophones (percussion (tuned))
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Dirtwire
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Jarana

Jimbush

    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: ?
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Dirtwire
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Junjun drum

    • AKA: Jun-jun drum
    • Links:
    • Description: an African two-headed drum with external snares
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Devil's Got Your Tongue Played by Gordy Ryan, credited as percussion
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Kamale n'goni

    • Description: Smaller than, and tuned a fourth higher than, the traditional ngoni, often made of calabash rather than wood, and has eight, ten or twelve strings.
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Dirtwire
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Katem

Keytar

    • AKA:
    • Description: A keytar is a relatively lightweight keyboard (with or without a built-in synthesizer) that is supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders, similar to the way a guitar is supported by a strap. -- Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family:
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Khene

    • AKA: khaen, kaen, khen, ແຄນ, แคน
    • Description: Mouth organ from Laos and north-east Thailand. Consists of bamboo pipes connected to a small, hollowed-out hardwood wind-chest.
    • Instrument Family: Wind
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Dirtwire (as kaen)
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:
      • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
      • I've re-added this because I'm not entirely convinced it's the same as the existing khèn Mèo. Pages for khèn Mèo, kềnh H'Mông, qeej (Vietnam): wikipedia:vi:Kềnh_H'Mông, [7], [8], [9], [10]. Pages for khene, khaen (Laos, Thailand): wikipedia:Khene, [11], [12], [13]. The former are all very similar, as are the latter, but there are a number of differences between the two which makes me wonder if they're really the *same* instrument and not just closely related instruments. --Nikki (talk) 00:11, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Glass and Komboloi

    • AKA: Potirokomboloi, Potirokoboloi, Ποτηρομπολόι, Ποτήρι - κομπολόι
    • Description:A komboloi is string of beads. Traditionally it's used to relieve stress and keep ones hands busy (Wikipedia) it was sometimes used in rebetika songs with a glass to make a distinctive "glass-y" sound. The "organ" has also been used again in recent times.
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

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:
    • Comments:
      • Adding just Rebana may suffice; a Kompang is a smaller version but I believe the same.

Kone

    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: ?
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Dirtwire
      • 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 played by Moses Milliyons on track 16
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Lap steel slide guitar

    • Description: Like a slide guitar, only using a lap steel guitar instead of a regular guitar.
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Dirtwire
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Latin percussion

"leg" percussion

    • AKA:
    • Description: percussion music performed with the legs, presumably
    • Instrument Family: other percussion
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:
      • Is this really different from "foot percussion"?--Reosarevok 14:37, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
        • It might be; foot percussion is made only with the feet while leg percussion could be something like knees clapping together, etc. I haven't actually heard or seen the songs it's mentioned for, so I don't know for sure. HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 07:53, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Loops

    • AKA:
    • Description:
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Other
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:
      • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
        • In Discogs Loops are credited 3223 times in release level and 2769 in track level Jokipii 21 June 2012
      • This is a tricky case. I've seen some pedal device being used to start and stop recording a loop while playing an instrument and then later repeating it (or repeating several loops at once). This should be an instrument in the electronic instruments family. But the Wikipedia article also mentions samplers being used for that (and we already have sampler in the tree) or that you can just digitally repeat samples. That latter case is not an instrument being used, really. And how can you tell which of those an artist really did? Credits like "samples" and "sound effects"/"fx" are similar. --Shepard 18:43, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Lur

Mandeldrums

    • AKA:
    • Description: a set of vertical LED-lined drums, invented and played by Blue Man Group
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: The Complex
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

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:
    • Comments:
      • Different to African lamellophones used to produce complex polyphony and polyrhythms, the marímbula basically plays the role of a bass guitar. -- Fabe56

Mazhar

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: large, heavy tambourine used in Arabic music
    • Instrument Family: Tambourine
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Medicine drum

    • AKA:
    • Links: [14]
    • Description: a sacred Native American drum used in healing rituals
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Megaphone

    • AKA: speaking-trumpet, bullhorn, blowhorn, loud hailer
    • Description: A portable, usually hand-held, cone-shaped acoustic horn used to amplify a person’s voice or other sounds and direct it in a given direction.
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Wind, I guess... or Other.
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Dirtwire
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Memorymoog

    • AKA: Moog Memorymoog
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: a variation on the Moog synthesizer
    • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments/.../Moog
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: JET CD as Moog (played by Yuta Saito)
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Metal Pipes

    • AKA:
    • Description: metal pipes, such as you would use for plumbing
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Mexican Harp / Arpa de Mariachi


Mizmar

    • AKA:
    • Description: Mizmar
    • Instrument Family: Winds
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:


Modular Synthesizer

Mouth Block

    • AKA:
    • Description: some kind of dental device?
    • Instrument Family: Percussion?
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Menina Played by Jota Moraes on track 2, credited as wood block
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:
      • TBH I have no idea what this is. Google results only point to a kind of protective dental device. It's possible that's what this is, but I highly doubt it. -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 00:47, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Music Sequencer

    • AKA: Sequencer
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: A device or application software that can record, edit, or play back musical notation
    • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
    • Appears On:
    • Comments: A drum machine is a type of sequencer, so if this is added it should be the parent of Drum Machine.

Ney

    • AKA:
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
    • 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
            • Never heard Ney as percussion before. Maybe some links would be helpfull --ym
              • I've added Ney (the middle-eastern, not Romanian flute) too. If someone can prove there's a percussion instrument too, please do.--Reosarevok (talk) 15:09, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Ngoma drums

    • AKA: Ng'oma, ingoma
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: traditional drums played by Bantu-speaking peoples of East Africa
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
    • 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:
    • 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.
      • Should be broken down into: N'goni, Kamale N'goni and Donso N'goni.

Nintendo

    • AKA: Famicom, Nintendo Entertainment System, NES
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: the sound chip from the Nintendo Entertainment System video game console
    • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:
      • This might need to be split into two separate instruments, the NES and the Famicom (ファミコン, short for Family Computer/ファミリーコンピュータ). If memory serves, the Famicom was capable of producing more sounds than the NES was. --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 06:30, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
        • Are you sure? NES is just the foreign name for FAMICOM. Jesus2099 (talk) 22:05, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
          • Extremely. In case you haven't noticed, the two consoles were structurally completely different in many ways (most of which are irrelevant right now), but the Famicom had two pins on its edge connector that allowed game cartridges to expand the onboard sound capabilities of the console. One way this was utilized was through a built-in microphone in the second controller that would play back players' voices through the connected TV set. --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 00:01, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Nyabinghi Drums (Funde, Thunder, Repeater/Keteh)

    • AKA: Rastafarian/jamaican drums
    • Wikipedia
    • Links: 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
      • Release 2: Music Played by Omar (Repeater drum on track 4)
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Nyatiti

    • Wikipedia
    • Description: a five to eight-stringed plucked lyre from Kenya.
    • Instrument Family: String instruments
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Ocarina, Triple-chambered

Ondioline

    • AKA:'
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: an early electronic keyboard instrument, a predecessor of the synthesizer
    • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
    • Appears On:
    • 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:
    • Comments:

Optigan

    • Wikipedia
    • Description: An electronic keyboard instrument with pre-recorded optical soundtracks to reproduce sound
    • Instrument Family: Electronic instruments
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Orchestron

    • Wikipedia
    • Description: A keyboard instrument, which produces its sound through electronic amplification of sound pre-recorded on an optical disc.
    • Instrument Family: Electronic instruments
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Oxygen harp

    • AKA:
    • Description: some type of harp-like instrument?
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Paddle Tubulum

    • AKA: Bass tubulum
    • Description: a bass tubulum
    • Instrument Family: Tuned percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: The Complex
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Pan drums

    • AKA:
    • Description: a set of traditional Asian drums?
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:
      • There might be another name for this instrument. It sounds like a specialized drum kit with traditional drums. Google turned up nothing relevant (all the links pointed to the steelpan). -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 03:33, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Pandeiro

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:
    • Comments:
      • BrianSchweitzer 03:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
      • Be careful, though. Pandereta does mean Tambourine in European Spanish.

Pandero

    • AKA:
    • Links: 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:
    • Comments:
      • Probably the same as pandeiro? --Freso (talk) 11:06, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
        • Probably not. The linked Wikipedia page says the Pandero has no jangles, while the Pandeiro does. -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 06:35, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Paraguayan harp

    • AKA: Arpa, アルパ
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: a 32-48-string diatonic harp used in traditional South American music
    • Intstrument Family: Plucked string instruments
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: コモエスタ赤坂 (played by Chico Honma on title track, credited as harp)
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:

Phil Drum

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

Piano Smasher

    • AKA:
    • Description: the strings out of a baby grand piano, played by striking with a large mallet
    • Instrument Family: Struck String Instruments
    • Appears On:
    • Comments:

Pipe and Tabor

    • Wikipedia
    • Description: a somewhat specialized pipe and tambourine-esque pair, played in combination.
    • Instrument Family: Winds, percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Morris On on track 7
      • Release 2:
      • Release 3:
      • Release 4:
      • Release 5:
    • Comments:
      • Could possibly be implemented as separate instruments

Player Piano

    • 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:
    • Comments:

Pocket Trumpet

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Brass
    • Appears On:
    • 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:

Portuguese Guitar

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: The Portuguese guitar (Portuguese: guitarra portuguesa) is a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings, strung in six courses comprising two strings each. It is one of the few musical instruments to still use the so-called Preston tuners. It is most notably associated with fado (Portuguese musical genre).
    • Instrument Family: Guitar - Cittern
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Cai o Carmo e a Trindade (guest musician plays Portuguese guitar)
      • 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:
    • Comments:

Pots & Pans

    • AKA:
    • Description: Kitchen pots and pans played as percussion instruments (usually as if they were drums in a drum set)
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
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Prepared Guitar

    • AKA: Tabletop Guitar
    • Wikipedia
    • 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)
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    • 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.
      • Tagged with instrument-prepared guitar

Pressaphonic

    • AKA:
    • Description: a giant 86-string zither with multiple effects applied
    • 'Instrument Family: Strings
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PVC Instrument

    • AKA:
    • Description: a tuned percussion instrument made from PVC pipe
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: The Complex
      • Release 2: Audio (the liner notes even list who played which segment of the instrument)
      • Release 3:
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Qilaut

    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Description: Wikipedia
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Utiqpungaa (as frame drum)
      • Release 2:
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Ramana

    • AKA:
    • Links: Ramana
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
    • 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
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Ranat ek

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: "Ranat ek" translates to "alto xylophone".
    • Instrument Family: Percussion, xylophone
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Jazz of Siam (credited as a xylophone)
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Rawap

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 Played by Wicked Aura Batacada (credited as Kompang, smaller version)
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    • 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

Renaissance Harp

Repinique

    • AKA: Repique
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: a 2-headed Brazilian drum
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: The Big Gundown Track 1 as Other Percussion
      • Release 2: Menina Played by Armando Marçal on track 1, credited as snare drum
      • Release 3: Chico Buarque Played by Doutor on track 1, credited as tom-tom
      • Release 4: Intuição de Tupã by Sérgio Boré, track 7 (drum)
      • Release 5:
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Requinto Jarocho

Ribbon Crasher

    • AKA:
    • Video: [15]
    • Description: a ribbon-shaped hi-hat?
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Audio
      • Release 2:
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Sabar

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: Traditional Senegalese drum.
    • Instrument Family: Drums
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Big Blue Ball on track 7
      • Release 2:
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Säckpipa

Sakara Drum

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: Clay drum from Nigeria
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Odu played by Nojeem Lasisi
      • Release 2: Devil's Got Your Tongue played by Babatunde Olatunji
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Sansula

C melody saxophone

Shaker Gong

    • AKA:
    • Description: a metal shaker filled with ball bearings, tied to a frame and struck with a mallet to produce sound
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Audio
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Siren whistle

    • AKA:
    • Video: [16]
    • Description: a plastic or metal whistle designed to sound like an emergency siren
    • Instrument Family: Winds/Other instruments
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Straight Outta Lynwood Played by Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on tracks 2 and 5, credited as kazoo
      • Release 2: Alpocalypse Played by Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on track 5, credited as whistle
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Sleigh bells

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: a set of large jingle bells on a stick or strap
    • Instrument Family: Tuned percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Straight Outta Lynwood Played by Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on track 2, credited as handbells
      • Release 2: Alpocalypse Played by Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on track 12, credited as bells
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    • Comments:
      • I'm debating whether to add this as one instrument or two. Wikipedia lists jingle bells and sleigh bells as the same, but traditionally jingle bells are small while sleigh bells are larger and resonate at a lower pitch. Thoughts? -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 03:49, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Slide banjo

    • Description: Basically the same as a slide guitar, only with a banjo instead of a guitar.
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Dirtwire
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Slide Trumpet

    • Wikipedia
    • Description: The slide trumpet is a type of trumpet that is fitted with a slide much like a trombone.
    • Instrument Family: Brass
    • Appears On:
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Slideridoo

Solina

    • AKA: Solina String Ensemble, ARP String Ensemble
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: a divide-down orchestral synthesizer
    • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments/.../Synthesizer
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: JET CD as electronic instruments
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Soprano Guitar

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

Steel-string guitar

Steelwhistle

    • AKA:
    • Description: Similar to a tin whistle??
    • Instrument Family:
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Stomp box

Sub Octivider

    • AKA:
    • Description: An effect pedal for electric guitars
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Coda
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Subahar

    • AKA: Surbahar, Bass sitar
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: The subahar, sometimes known as bass sitar, is a plucked string instrument used in the Hindustani classical music of North India. It is closely related to sitar, but it has a lower tone.
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
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Sursingar

    • AKA: sursringar, surshringar, surashringar
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: The sursingar is a musical instrument from India. It is a lute-derived sarod, except it is larger in size and produces a deeper sound. It precedes the sarod chronologically.
    • Instrument Family: Strings
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SynthAxe

Tack piano

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: Menina Played by Armando Marçal and Marçal on tracks 1,7 and 12 (credited as tambourine)
      • Release 2: Intuição de Tupã by Sérgio Boré, track 5 (frame drum)
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    • 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)

Tannerin

    • AKA: Electro-Theremin
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: an early synthesizer-like device that sounds like a theremin
    • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
    • Appears On:
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Tarbüş

    • AKA: Tarbush
    • Links: Lu Edmonds
    • Description: a type of cümbüş
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: England, Half English, tracks 2, 4, 5 (now credited as cümbüş)
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Tenor banjo

    • AKA:
    • Description: a four-string banjo with tenor tuning, usually C G D A
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Strings/.../Banjo
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Tenor trombone

    • AKA:
    • Description: Variation of trombone
    • Instrument Family: Wind brass
    • Appears On:
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Tenorbüş

    • AKA: Tenorbush
    • Links: Lu Edmonds
    • Description: a type of cümbüş
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: England, Half English, track 4 (now credited as cümbüş)
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Timber flute

    • AKA:
    • Links: image search
    • Description: Maybe a kind of celtic flute
    • Instrument Family: Flute
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Celtic Moon (Cormac Breatnach)
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Time Machine

    • AKA: Folktek Time Machine
    • Description: A type of custom sequencer / samplable synthesiser made by Folktek
    • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
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Tinya

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: The Tinya is a percussion instrument, a small handmade drum of leather which is used in the traditional music of the Andean region, particularly Peru.
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
    • Comments: Also listed as snare drum in Release 1

Tovshuur

    • AKA: Tobshuur, Topshuur, トヴショール Wikipedia
    • Description: A Mongolian plucked lute with two strings. The head of the neck is shaped like a swan.
    • Instrument Family: String instruments / ... / Lute
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Toy drum kit

    • AKA:
    • Description: a drum kit meant to be played by a small child?
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
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Tromboon

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

    • AKA: Corneta china, Chinese cornet
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: A Cuban traditional wind instrument, it is actually the Chinese suona, an instrument in the oboe family introduced to Cuba by Chinese immigrants
    • Instrument Family: Double reed
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Buenos hermanos as "suona" by Mario Villalta on track 2
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    • Comments:
      • IMO this should just be an alias for the suona. -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 07:42, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Tubulum

    • AKA:
    • Description: a tuned percussion instrument invented by Blue Man Group; a variation on their earlier PVC Instrument
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: The Complex Played by Larry Heinemann and the Blue Man Group
      • Release 2: Audio
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Ukeke

    • AKA: 'Ūkēkē
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: The 'ūkēkē is a musical bow made of koa wood, 16 to 24 inches long and about 1½ inches wide with two or three strings fastened through and around either end, tuned to an A major triad.
    • Instrument Family: Strings?
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Upside-Down Bass

    • AKA:
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Strings?
    • Appears On:
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    • Comments:
      • I don't even know what this is. It's possible it's just a normal instrument played upside down, but it could be a custom, innovative instrument like the backwards electric guitar. -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 11:36, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Utne Drum

    • AKA:
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    • Instrument Family: Percussion
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Utne Shakers

    • AKA:
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
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Vichitra veena

Baritone Viola

    • AKA:
    • Description: A viola with heavy strings which plays an octave lower?
    • Instrument Family: Strings
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Viola da spalla

    • AKA: Baroque violoncello
    • Description: a Baroque string instrument sized and tuned between the viola and the cello
    • Links: [17]
    • Instrument Family: Strings/Bowed string instruments
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Menina Played by Antonela Pareschi on tracks 3 and 8, credited as violone
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Baritone violin

    • AKA: Octave violin
    • Wikipedia
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: The Crow (credited as violin, played by Craig Eastman)
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Tenor violin

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: A string instrument with a body size and range between the viola and the cello
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Let Them Talk played by Craig Eastman (currently only credited as playing the violin)
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Violino piccolo

Viololyra

    • AKA: Βιολολύρα
    • Description: A mix of the Cretan lyra and violin
    • Instrument Family: Strings
    • Appears On:
    • Comments: The Viololyra is manufactured with the same materials as the common lyra, however is different in its shape. After seeing the violin, which came to Greece from the rest of Europe, many instrument manufacturers were influenced and created the viololyra. Its trademark is that it has 4 chords and resembles the shape of the violin, to an extent. http://goo.gl/qnH9M

Violoncello piccolo

    • AKA: Cello piccolo
    • Description: a Baroque string instrument sized and tuned between the viola and the cello
    • Instrument Family: Strings/Bowed string instruments
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: 6 Cello Concertos by (The Academy of Ancient Music, Christophe Coin, Christopher Hogwood) Played by Christophe Coin on tracks 7--9 and 16--18, credited as cello piccolo
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Weissenborn Guitar

Wooden Bowl

    • AKA:
    • Description:
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
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      • 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
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    • 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)

Yoochin

    • AKA: Yochin, ヨーチン
    • Description: A Mongolian hammered dulcimer.
    • Instrument Family: String instruments / ... / Hammered dulcimer
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    • Comments:
      • Probably related to the yangqin. Nikki 02:56, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Zabumba

    • Description: A type of bass drum used in Brazilian music. The player wears the drum while standing up and uses both hands while playing.
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
    • Appears On:
      • Release 1: Dirtwire
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Instruments with no releases listed

Amiga

    • AKA:
    • Description: the sound chip out of an Amiga personal computer
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
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Arco Bass

    • AKA: Single bass, Arco acoustic bass guitar
    • Description: an acoustic bass guitar built to look and sound like an upright bass
    • Links: [18]
    • Instrument Family: Strings
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Atari 2600

    • AKA:
    • Description: the sound chip out of the video game console by the same name
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
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Bellowphone

    • AKA: The Majestic Bellowphone
    • Description: a bizarre bellows-driven horn instrument developed and played by Leonard Solomon
    • Links: [19]
    • Instrument Family: Winds
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Blaster Beam

    • AKA:
    • Description: a long metal beam with strings and movable electric guitar pickups
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Strings
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Byzaanchi

    • AKA:
    • Description: a Tuvan bowed string instrument with a hollow cylindrical body
    • Images: [20]
    • Instrument Family: Strings
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Caixa

    • AKA:
    • Links: Caixa
    • Description: a Brazilian snare drum used in samba music
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
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Chanzy

    • AKA:
    • Description: a Tuvan three-stringed lute
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Strings
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Ching

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: Thai/Cambodian finger cymbals
    • Instrument Family: Percussion
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Doshpuluur

    • AKA: Toshpuluur
    • Wikipedia
    • Description: a plucked, banjo-like, long-necked lute used in the Tuva region of Mongolia.
    • Instrument Family: Strings
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Double-reed Slide Music Stand

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

Drone

    • AKA:
    • Wikipedia
    • Description:: instruments providing repeated or sustained (resonant?) sounds (bagpipes, didgeridoo, etc.)
    • Instrument Family: Other? Winds?
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    • 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)
          • I guess this is a family of instruments. Added a link to a WP article on Drone music. Xhienne (talk) 21:49, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Flugabone

    • AKA:
    • Description: a larger variant of the flugelhorn, tuned a full octave lower
    • Links: [21]
    • Instrument Family: Winds
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Homus

    • AKA:
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    • Instrument Family: Other
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Igil

    • AKA: Игил
    • Description: a two-stringed bowed instrument from the Tuva region
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Strings/Bowed string instruments
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Kabosy

    • AKA:
    • Description: a square guitar-like instrument from Madagascar
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Strings
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Mandoguitar

    • AKA: Octave Twelve, Vox MandoGuitar
    • Description: a miniature 12-string electric guitar designed to sound like a mandolin yet feel and play like a guitar
    • Wikipedia
    • Instrument Family: Strings
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Ocarina, Double-chambered

    • AKA: Treble Ocarina
    • Description: Ocarina
    • Instrument Family: Woodwinds
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Pedalboard

    • AKA:
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    • Instrument Family: Other
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Pipe

    • AKA:
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    • Instrument Family: Winds
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Pixiphone

    • AKA:
    • Description: a toy glockenspiel manufactured in England in the 1950s and 1960s
    • Links: Wikipedia and [22]
    • Instrument Family: Tuned percussion
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Regal

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    • Description: an early portable reed organ popular during the Renaissance
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    • Instrument Family: Reed organ
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Rozhok

    • AKA: Vladimirsky rozhok
    • Description: an ancient Russian wooden trumpet
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Saxobone

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    • Description: A trombine modified to accept a saxophone mouthpiece. Used by jazz player Eddie Harris (inventor?) among others.
    • Instrument Family: Brass? Winds?
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Slapstick

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    • 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.'
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Strum Stick

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    • Description: a three-string guitar-like instrument
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Suling

    • AKA: Seruling
    • Description: an Indonesian bamboo ring flute
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Swarmandal

    • AKA: Indian zither, Indian harp
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Tapboard



Temple Bells

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    • Description: a Japanese wind chime
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Tipple

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    • Description: a stringed musical instrument that is smaller that a guitar and larger than a ukulele, having aspects of both.
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Trautonium

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    • Description: an electronic instrument that uses a resistor wire and moving metal plate to create sound
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Tüngür

    • AKA: tünggür, düngür, dünggü
    • Links: Tüngür
    • Description: A Tuvan Shamen drum
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Whistling Water Jar

    • AKA: Peruvian whistling bottle
    • Description: a clay whistle filled with water to change its pitch
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Zhaleika

    • AKA: Bryolka
    • Description: a Russian single-reed hornpipe
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Failed, and why

Indian Strings

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

Yamaha DX7

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

Kalimba

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

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)

Computer

  • This isn't specific enough to distinguish it from programming. --Nikki 00:23, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Riqq

Pump organ

Harpischord

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      • Already in there as harpsichord - maybe you searched for the same typo you added here? ;) --Reosarevok 12:35, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Scratches

    • AKA: Scratching
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    • 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.
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      • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
        • We have "Turntable(s)"? -- FrederikSOlesen 10:12, 09 March 2008 (UTC)
        • In Discogs Scratches are credited 12269 times in release level and 26735 in track level Jokipii 21 June 2012
        • As indicated back in 2008, this is just Turntables. We don't have an instrument for each way of playing guitar.--Reosarevok (talk) 23:30, 3 October 2012 (UTC)


Sintir

    • AKA: سنتير‎, Guembri (Arabic: الكمبري‎), Gimbri or Hejhouj.
    • Description: three stringed skin-covered bass plucked lute.
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      • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
      • See "gumbri" in the tree --Nikki (talk) 17:03, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
      • Can we add "sintir" to the list of "other names" given on the tree? Jprucher (talk) 21:36, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
      • Dirtwire (a duo of world music composition students) distinguishes between "guimbri" and "sintir" on Dirtwire: David Satori is credited as playing "guimbri" and Vir McCoy is credited with "sintir" (on track 7).