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Aerophone - AudioLexic (234 words)
An aerophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes, and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound.
It is one of the five main classes (class 4) of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification.
Hornbostel-Sachs divides aerophones by whether vibrating air is contained in the instrument itself or not.
Aerophone: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (0 words)
An aerophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes, and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound.
It is one of the four main classes (class 4) of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, the other three being idiophone, membranophone and chordophone (a fifth class, electrophone, was added in a later revision).
Hornbostel-Sachs divides aerophones by the fact whether vibrating air is contained in the instrument itself or not.
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