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Accordina
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 412.132
Accordion
The accordion is an instrument with bellows and metal reeds. The player opens and closes the bellows, which pushes air through the reeds when a note is opened by pressing a button or key.
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 412.132
Accordola
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 412.132
Acoustic bass guitar
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 321.322
Acoustic guitar
The guitar is the nost popular and successful instrument in the world. It typically has 6 strings, unless one of them is broken, although 12 string suitar have 12 strings. It can be played by plucking or strummng the strings. The guitar has its origins over 3,000 years ag0o, though the modern instrument is descended from the medieval lute.
The strings can be steel or nylon (in a classical guitar).
The standard tuning is EADGBE.
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 321.322
Aeolian harp
An Aeolian harp (æolian harp or wind harp) is a musical instrument that is played by the wind. It is named after Aeolus, the ancient Greek god of the wind. The traditional Aeolian harp is essentially a wooden box including a sounding board, with strings stretched lengthwise across two bridges. It is placed in a slightly opened window where the wind can blow across the strings to produce sounds. The strings can be made of different materials (or thicknesses) and all be tuned to the same pitch, or identical strings can be tuned to different pitches. Besides being the only strung instrument played solely by the wind, the Aeolian harp is the only stringed instrument that plays solely harmonic frequencies.
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 314.122
Aeolsklavier
The aeolsklavier (æolsklavier) is an unsuccessful keyboard wind instrument containing wooden reeds and invented in 1825 by Schortmann of Buttelstädt. The sound was produced by a jet of air which put in motion a set of vibrating blades of very thin wood. It was equipped with a keyboard and with a pedal which triggered a set of bellows (one for each note) and produced a soft and ethereal sound.
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 141
Agidigbo
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 122.1
Agung / Agong
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 111.241
Agung a tamlang
Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 111.231
Ajaeng
Half-tube zither with seven silk strings, played with a piece of forsythia wood.
Accordina
Accordion
Acoustic bass guitar
Acoustic guitar
Aeolian harp
Agidigbo
Agung a tamlang
Ajaeng
AlphaSphere
Alphorn
Alto clarinet
Alto horn
Alto sarrusophone
Angélique
Appalachian dulcimer
Archlute
Arpeggione
Array mbira
Audiocubes
Autoharp
