Difference between revisions of "MusicBrainz API/Search/InstrumentSearch"

Revision as of 11:32, 22 January 2021

The instrument index contains these fields you can search:

Field	Description
alias	(part of) any alias attached to the instrument (diacritics are ignored)
comment	(part of) the instrument's disambiguation comment
description	(part of) the description of the instrument (in English)
iid	the MBID of the instrument
instrument	(part of) the instrument's name (diacritics are ignored)
instrumentaccent	(part of) the instrument's name (with the specified diacritics)
tag	(part of) a tag attached to the instrument
type	the instrument's type

If you don't specify a field, the term will be searched for in the alias, description and instrument fields.

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 ! Field   !! Description
 |-
-| alias || an alias attached to the instrument
+| alias || (part of) any [[Aliases|alias]] attached to the instrument (diacritics are ignored)
 |-
-| comment || the disambiguation comment for the instrument
+| comment || (part of) the instrument's disambiguation comment
 |-
-| description || the description of the instrument
+| description || (part of) the description of the instrument (in English)
 |-
 | iid || the MBID of the instrument
 |-
-| instrument || the name of the instrument
+| instrument || (part of) the instrument's name (diacritics are ignored)
 |-
-| type || the instrument's type
+| instrumentaccent || (part of) the instrument's name (with the specified diacritics)
 |-
-| tag || a tag attached to the instrument
+| tag || (part of) a tag attached to the instrument
+|-
+| type || the instrument's [[Instrument#Type|type]]
 |}
-Query terms without a field specifier will search the <em>alias</em>, <em>description</em> and <em>instrument</em> fields.
+If you don't specify a field, the term will be searched for in the ''alias'', ''description'' and ''instrument'' fields.