Lamellaphones

Lamellaphones

Lamellaphones are the second tier of the Hornbostel Sachs musical instrument classification system. In Latin the word “lamella” means “tongue”. There are two sub-types the first is called “Idioglotic” this first tier are jawharps that are carved, cut and or fabricated from the same material. Originally of natural source often bamboo, or metal.

The second tier includes “jew harps” or “jawharps” – defined as a composite lamella [tongue] built around a separate frame and the second type are lamellaphones having a resonator or “sound box, or body attached to the instrument its self.

This includes instruments such as the Kalimba, Mbira etc. Lamellaphones are tongues plucked by the fingers. The tongues maybe made of grass, bamboo or metal attached to a sound board and additional resonator.

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Hello and welcome to the museum of world music website. My name is Graeme Gibson, I am the author and creator of this website ; the goal of this website is to document musical instruments from around the world by family of instruments 1.) Idiophones 2.) Membranophones 3.) Chordophones 4.) Aerophones 5.) Electrophones :

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Chordophones

Chordophones

Chordophones are the third tier of musical instruments covered in the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification system. Any class of musical instrument in which a string stretched over the body producing the sound. The five basic types of chordophones are 1.) Harps, 2.) Lutes, 3.) Lyres and zithers.

1 Bows
2 Harps
3 Angled Harps
4 Arched Harps
5 Ground Harps
6 Lutes
7 Lyres
8 Zithers