Look up: Idiophone

1. idiophone
   class of musical instruments in which a resonant solid material—such as wood, metal, or stone—vibrates to produce the initial sound. The eight basic ... [11 related articles]
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2. idiophone
   idiophone, idiophonic 1. A musical instrument (as a bell, gong, rattle) the source of whose sound is the vibration of its elastic constituent material unmodified by any special tension (as in a drum); also known as an autophone.2. A percussion instrument, e.g. a gong or xylophone, that is made from ...
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3. Idiophone
   The idiophones are the percussion group of musical instruments comprised of elastic material capable of generating sound vibrations.
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4. Idiophone
   An `idiophone` is any musical instrument which creates sound primarily by way of the instrument`s vibrating, without the use of strings or membranes. It is the first of the four main divisions in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification (see List of idiophones by Hor...
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