A musical instrument is a device that has been modified or constructed with the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that somehow produces sound can serve as a musical instrument, but the expression is reserved generally to items that have that specific purpose.

See also: List of musical instruments

Subcategories

There are 16 subcategories to this category.

Aerophones Amplified instruments B Brass instruments C Chinese musical instruments Chordophones

C cont. Cuban musical instruments E Electronic music instruments I Idiophones K Keyboard instruments L Lamellaphones M Marching band instruments

M cont. Membranophones Musical instrument manufacturers P Percussion instruments S String instruments Musical instrument stubs

Articles in category "Musical instruments"

There are 68 articles in this category.

AGO pedalboard Aeolian harp Aerophone Angklung Asor B Great Highland Bagpipe Bagpipes Balafon Barre chord Boatswain's pipe C Celesta Chordophone Clavinet E Electric piano Electrophone Embouchure Endpin F Free trembler G Gaida Guitar Guitorgan H Heckelphone

H cont. Hichiriki Hornbostel-Sachs I Instrument amplifier Irish Warpipes K Kankles Kecapi suling Keyboard instrument Kit (musical instrument) Korng thomm Kulintang L Lamellaphone Lasso d'amore Lijerica Lur M Miraj style Musette Musical box Musical instrument Musical instrument classification O Orchestrion P Panharmonicon Piano key frequencies Pitchpipe

R Resonator Rhodes piano Rothphone S Sarrusophone Strähle construction T Tambura Tambura (Bulgaria) Tamburi Tamburitza Tangent mechanism Tangent piano Tanjore style Toy piano Traditional Chinese musical instruments Tremolo arm Trikitixa Tuning fork U Uilleann pipes V Viola organista Vishwaveena W Wind instrument Wobble board Woodwind instrument