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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. |
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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. |