List of musical instruments Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

The following is a list of musical instruments, categorized by section. Please add to List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number also.

Table of contents

1 Wind instruments 1.1 Woodwind instruments 1.2 Brass instruments 2 String instruments 3 Keyboard instruments 4 Free reed instruments 5 Percussion instruments 6 Voice 7 Electronic instruments 8 Other

Wind instruments

Woodwind instruments

• Bagpipe
• Bassoon
• Bombarde
• Clarinet
• Contrabassoon
• Cor Anglais | English Horn
• Crumhorn
• Flute
  • Vertical flute
• Heckelphone | Piccolo Heckelphone
• Jug
• Nose flute
• Oboe
• Ocarina
• Pan pipes
• Piccolo
• Recorder flute
• Sarrusophone
• Saxophone
• Shakuhachi
• Shawm
• Slide whistle
• Tarogato
• Tromboon

Brass instruments

(not necessarily made from brass)

• Alphorn
• Baritone horn
• Bazooka
• Bugle
• Conch
• Cornet
• Cornett or Cornetto
• Didgeridoo
• Euphonium
• Flugelhorn
• French horn
• Mellophone
• Ophicleide
• Sackbut
• Serpent
• Shofar
• Sousaphone
• Tenor Horn / Alto Horn (same instrument)
• Trombone
• Trumpet
• Tuba
• Wagner tuba

String instruments

• Aeolian harp
• Appalachian Dulcimer
• Balalaika
• Banjo
• Biwa
• Bouzouki
• Musical bow
• Cello
• Crwth
• Double Bass
• Fiddle
• Fiddle and Violin
• Violin
• Gayageum
• Geomungo
• Guitars:
  • Acoustic guitar
  • Bass guitar
  • Classical guitar
  • Electric Guitar
  • Slide guitar
  • Steel guitar
• Hammered dulcimer
• Hardanger
• Harp
• Hurdy gurdy
• Jew's harp
• Komungo
• Kora
• Koto
• Lute
• Lyre
• Mandolin
• Mbira
• Psaltery
• Samisen (or shamisen)
• Sitar
• Tres
• Ukulele
• Vieille
• Vihuela
• Viol
• Viola
• Viola d'amore
• Violotta
• Washtub bass
• Xalam (or khalam)
• Zither

Keyboard instruments

• Accordion
• Bandoneón
• Calliope
• Carillon
• Celesta
• Clavichord
• Harpsichord
• Organ
  • Hammond Organ
  • Pipe organ
• Piano
  • Janko piano
  • Toy piano

Free reed instruments

• Accordion
• Concertina
• Harmonica
• Harmonium
• Melodica
• Pipe organ (some pipes; others are woodwind)
• sheng

Percussion instruments

• Ahoko
• Bell
• Castanets
• Chimes
• Cymbals:
  • Crash cymbal
  • Hi-hat cymbal
  • Ride cymbal
  • Splash cymbal
• Drums
  • Abïa drum;
  • African drum
  • Bass drum
  • Bodhran
  • Bongo drum
  • Conga
  • Dhol
  • Dholak
  • O Daiko
  • Kettle drum
  • Khol
  • Octaban
  • Octapad
  • Snare
  • Steel drum
  • Tabla
  • Taiko
  • Tambourine
  • Timpani
  • Tom-Tom
  • Udu
• Gong
• Guiro
• Glockenspiel
• Maracas
• Marimba
• Metallophone
• Steelpan
• Triangle
• Vibraphone
• Washboard
• Xylophone
• Xylorimba

Voice

• Soprano
• Mezzo-soprano
• Alto (contralto)
• Countertenor
• Tenor
• Baritone
• Bass
• Castrato

Electronic instruments

• Denis d'or
• Drum machine
• Hammond organ
• Mellotron
• Ondes Martenot
• Rhodes piano
• Sampler
• Synclavier
• Synthesizer (including Moog)
• Teleharmonium
• Theremin

Other

• Bull-roarer
• Hardart
• Joe Ahmed
• Kazoo
• Lasso d'amore
• Musical Saw
• Suikinkutsu (Japanese water zither)

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