It is played by shaking or striking the drumhead with the hand. A keyboard instrument with tuned metal bars. Trombone

The only other controls were a power switch and a vibrato control on the front panel beside the keyboard, and a tuning control on the rear. The steeldrum was developed in Trinidad in the 1930's and 40's, and is played with a rubber-headed stick. The only drum that can be tuned to produce definite pitches. The wooden tube has holes covered by metal keys, which are pressed to change the instrument's pitch. There are 88 keys on a modern piano, and each one is a different note. A single cymbal can also be struck with a stick. A percussion instrument from Ghana and Nigeria made from a dried, hollow gourd covered with a net that's woven with seeds. A brass wind instrument with a conical tube that's bent into a circle, a funnel shaped mouthpiece, and a wide bell. It was invented and constructed by the Czech theologian Václav Prokop Diviš — his surname is pronounced "Deevish" and often spelled "Divisch" — at his parish in the Moravian town Přímětice near Znojmo in the south-east of what is now the Czech Republic. It's just so soothing and calm! A percussion instrument with a series of metal bars of varying pitch suspended over a resonance box.

It has four strings, is held between the knees, and is supported on the floor with a metal peg. The player uses a pedal to tighten and loosen the drumhead to change the pitch. It is a tube with one open end and one capped end. Concertina When the key is struck, the tangent rises and strikes the string, causing it to make the sound, which is very soft. Each bar gives off a different pitch when struck with a mallet.

Tambourine

The Stylophone is a miniature analog stylus-operated keyboard. These instruments reflect a strong influence of the foreign cultures like those of the Greeks and the Etruscans.

Buttons on th autoharp control bars that dampen all strings except the ones needed to produce a desired chord. It was originally called pianoforte because it could play both soft (piano) and loud (forte). Cymbals A Theremin player moves his or her hands around the instrument instead of touching it. First developed for electronic music studios, the technology evolved to enable concert performance, and eventually digital sound and recording capabilities. A percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned wooden bars arranged like a piano keyboard, with a hollow tube under each bar. The bars are struck with mallets.

A folk instrument with 30 – 40 strings stretched over a flat, shallow, horizontal soundboard.

Triangle

The sound is just lovely and it doesn't do super high pitched, irritating sounds and ugly stuff. Violin Its strings are plucked. Bassoons play the low notes in the woodwind family. A Spanish percussion instrument that consists of two small shell shaped pieces of wood held together with string. The only drum that can be tuned to produce definite pitches. The chimes are often used by orchestras to create the sound of bells. Three valves can be pressed to change the length of the tube, which changes the pitch of the instrument. Find Complete List of Musical Instruments used Worldwide - List of Percussion Instruments (Idiophones, Membranophones) - List of Wind Instruments (Aerophones) - List of Stringed Instruments (Chordophones) - Electronic Instruments (Electrophones) - Keyboard Instruments - Listing The player uses foot pedals to pump the air.

A stringed instrument with a long neck and a flat, hollow body. Its name comes from the large kettle-shaped bottom, over which the skin of the drumhead is stretched. There are musical names to suit everyone’s taste and genre preference, from classical music and opera to blues and rock-and-roll. Invented in 1967 by Brian Jarvis, it entered production in 1968.

An early stringed instrument whose strings are stretched across a wooden sound box and hit with small hammers. Castanets A set of tuned metal tubes that hang in rows in a frame. The largest and lowest-pitched instrument in the string family. Organ A stringed instrument in the guitar family with a long neck, five strings and a round body like a tambourine with an open back.

Oboe The strings are graduated in length from longest/lowest pitches to shortest/highest and there are pedals that can be used to raise the pitch of each string by half steps. The sound is made by striking the tube at the top edge with a mallet. Maracas are widely used in Latin America. First developed for electronic music studios, the technology evolved to enable concert performance, and eventually digital sound and recording capabilities.