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Look up instrument in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Instrument may refer to: Flight instruments, the devices used to measure the speed, altitude, and...

In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer...

instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it...

Instrument rating refers to the qualifications that a pilot must have in order to fly under instrument flight rules (IFR). It requires specific training...

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles...

Legal instrument is a legal term of art that is used for any formally executed written document that can be formally attributed to its author, records...

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of...

A financial instrument is a monetary contract between parties. They can be created, traded, modified and settled. They can be cash (currency), evidence...

Navigational instruments are instruments used by nautical navigators and pilots as tools of their trade. The purpose of navigation is to ascertain the...

A negotiable instrument is a document guaranteeing the payment of a specific amount of money, either on demand, or at a set time, whose payer is usually...

zampoña or zampolla) is a traditional Andean panpipe. This instrument is the main instrument used in a musical genre known as sikuri. It is traditionally...

Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe...

The cuatro is a family of Latin American string instruments played in Colombia, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and other Latin American countries. It is derived...

The kora (Manding languages: ߞߐߙߊ kɔra) is a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa. A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by...

pitched in F. It had a straight body, an open bell, and two keys. The instrument was first used in Alcidiane by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 1658 and in French...

A scientific instrument is a device or tool used for scientific purposes, including the study of both natural phenomena and theoretical research. Historically...

markings, designators, and centerlines. Additionally, they do not provide an instrument-based landing procedure; pilots must be able to see the runway to use...

/rʊˈbɑːb/) or robab is a lute-like musical instrument of Central Asian origin. It is the national musical instrument of Afghanistan and is also commonly played...

The koto (箏 or 琴) is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument, and the national instrument of Japan. It is derived from the Chinese zheng and se,...

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the...

Instrument transformers are high accuracy class electrical devices used to isolate or transform voltage or current levels. The most common usage of instrument...

Azerbaijani: qanun; Uyghur: قالون, romanized: qalon) is a Middle Eastern string instrument played either solo, or more often as part of an ensemble, in much of Armenia...

atarigane or kane or chanchiki (当たり鉦 or 鉦 or チャンチキ) (ja:鉦鼓(en:Shōko (instrument)) or ja:摺鉦) [kane] is a type of dish-shaped bell from Japan. The atarigane...

In trust law, a trust instrument (also sometimes called a deed of trust, where executed by way of deed) is an instrument in writing executed by a settlor...

A bearer instrument is a document that entitles the holder of the document to rights of ownership or title to the underlying property. In the case of shares...

mechanical organs) (see below for pronunciation) is an American musical instrument that produces sound by sending a gas, originally steam or, more recently...

A surgical instrument is a medical device used during surgery to perform specific actions, such as cutting, modifying tissue, or providing access for viewing...

In aviation, an instrument approach or instrument approach procedure (IAP) is a series of predetermined maneuvers for the orderly transfer of an aircraft...

Charles Gounod's Petite Symphonie pour neuf instruments à vent (Little Symphony for Nine Wind Instruments) I. Adagio, allegro II: Andante cantabile III:...

In astronomy, a transit instrument is a small telescope with an extremely precisely graduated mount used for the precise observation of star positions...

The bazooka is a brass musical instrument several feet in length which incorporates telescopic tubing like the trombone. Radio comedian Bob Burns is credited...

KONCH) or conque, also called a "seashell instrument" or "shell natural instruments", is a wind instrument that is made from a conch, the shell of several...

A transposing instrument is a musical instrument for which music notation is not written at concert pitch (concert pitch is the pitch on a non-transposing...

(German pronunciation: [haŋ]; plural form: Hanghang) is a type of musical instrument fitting into the idiophone class and based on the Trinidad & Tobago steelpan...

reflecting instrument used in navigation. The name octant derives from the Latin octans meaning eighth part of a circle, because the instrument's arc is one...

consensus.› The datong (大筒) is a bowed string instrument in the huqin family, and is used as an accompanying instrument in the huaguxi opera tradition of Hunan...

A horn is any of a family of musical instruments made of a tube, usually made of metal and often curved in various ways, with one narrow end into which...

Qudi (曲笛), Bangdi (梆笛), and Xindi (新笛). It is a major Chinese musical instrument that is widely used in many genres of Chinese folk music, Chinese opera...

A ratchet or rattle, more specifically, cog rattle is a musical instrument of the percussion family and a warning/signaling device. It operates on the...

a musical instrument, a type of bamboo tube zither played by the Jah Hut group of the Orang Asli tribal peoples of Malaysia. The instrument is made of...

A public instrument is any legal instrument (legal document) recorded with and authenticated by a public office or employee. To carry weight, any such...

A pipe is a tubular wind instrument in general, or various specific wind instruments. The word is an onomatopoeia, and comes from the tone which can resemble...

Instrument panel may refer to: Control panel (engineering) Flight instruments Dashboard This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...

In aviation, the instrument landing system (ILS) is a precision radio navigation system that provides short-range guidance to aircraft to allow them to...

remote instrument control. Instrument drivers are specified by the IVI Foundation and define an I/O abstraction layer using the virtual instrument software...

CTD stands for conductivity, temperature, and depth. A CTD instrument is an oceanography sonde (French for probe) used to measure the electrical conductivity...

which comes from the Latin word pipare. The fife is a diatonically tuned instrument commonly consisting of a tube with six finger holes and an embouchure...

An instrument amplifier is an electronic amplifier that converts the often barely audible or purely electronic signal of a musical instrument into a larger...

The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was the printed agreement that formalized the surrender of Japan, marking the end of hostilities in World War II....

The jug used as a musical instrument is an empty jug (usually made of glass or stoneware) played with buzzed lips to produce a trombone-like tone. The...

Instrument myopia is the tendency of a person with normal eyes to focus them too close when looking into an optical instrument at its image. Optical instruments...

An optical instrument is a device that processes light waves (or photons), either to enhance an image for viewing or to analyze and determine their characteristic...

The serpent is a low-pitched early wind instrument in the lip-reed family, developed in the Renaissance era. It has a trombone-like mouthpiece, with six...

The law of the instrument, law of the hammer, Maslow's hammer, or golden hammer is a cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool....

An astronomical instrument is a device for observing, measuring or recording astronomical data. They are used in the scientific field of astronomy, a natural...

The Instruments is the musical project of Heather McIntosh, cellist in a number of Athens, Georgia groups including Circulatory System, Elf Power, and...

A quadrant is an instrument used to measure angles up to 90°. Different versions of this instrument could be used to calculate various readings, such as...

Virtual instrument may refer to: A Software synthesizer, a computer program or plug-in that generates digital audio Virtual instrumentation, customized...

instrument can refer to: National instrument (music), of particular cultural and social importance National Instrument 43-101, a national instrument for...

a globular, vessel flute from China. It is one of the oldest musical instruments in China and has been in use for approximately 7,000 years. The xun was...

musical instrument of the zither family, which was played by pressing spring-levers to cause small hammers to strike the strings of the instrument. The term...

Cohen's documentary film Instrument (1999), which follows the band. Instrument Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to Instrument, a 1999 documentary film...

A dashboard (also called dash, instrument panel or IP, or fascia) is a control panel set within the central console of a vehicle, boat, or cockpit of an...

The cowbell is an idiophone hand percussion instrument used in various styles of music, such as Latin and rock. It is named after the similar bell used...

Flight instruments are the instruments in the cockpit of an aircraft that provide the pilot with data about the flight situation of that aircraft, such...

(/ˌdɪdʒəriˈduː/ ; also spelt didjeridu, among other variants) is a wind instrument, played with vibrating lips to produce a continuous drone while using...

A folk instrument is a traditional musical instrument that has remained largely restricted to traditional folk music, and is not usually used in the classical...

A nocturnal is an instrument used to determine the local time based on the position of a star in the night sky relative to the pole star. As a result of...

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mouth-blown polyphonic free reed instrument consisting of vertical pipes. It is one of the oldest Chinese instruments, with images depicting its kind dating...

Tarpa (Marathi: तारपा) is a tribal instrument originating from Western India. It is a wind instrument, played by blowing into a reservoir chamber that...

The Instrument of Accession was a legal document first introduced by the Government of India Act 1935 and used in 1947 to enable each of the rulers of...

smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino piccolo...

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It is one of the top 10 semiconductor...

The shō (笙) is a Japanese free reed musical instrument descended from the Chinese sheng, of the Tang dynasty era, which was introduced to Japan during...

written ngɔni, n'goni, or nkoni) is a traditional West African string instrument. Its body is made of wood or calabash with dried animal (often goat) skin...

single piece of wood. The term generally signifies the Western orchestral instrument, but may also refer to the Chinese woodblock. In ragtime and jazz music...

Instrument maker can refer to: A maker of scientific instruments A maker of musical instruments A luthier is a maker of stringed instruments This disambiguation...

Lombardy mandolin The mandore is a musical instrument, a small member of the lute family, teardrop shaped, with four to six courses of gut strings and...

The helicon is a brass musical instrument in the tuba family. Most are B♭ basses, but they are also built in E♭ or F, and occasionally in tenor or even...

xindi (Chinese: 新笛; pinyin: xīndí; lit. 'new flute') is a Chinese musical instrument. A 20th-century derivative of the ancient dizi (bamboo transverse flute)...

has three holes and is used in court music. It is a wind instrument, a small carved instrument, which was imported from China in 1116 (the eleventh year...

to describe the same instrument, or type of instrument." The direction of the spread of the instrument is uncertain. The instrument may have developed in...

Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings. The bow rubbing the string causes vibration...

The Instrument of Government was the first constitution of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and was also the first codified and written...

An instrument of surrender is a surrendering document of a military conflict, as those documents are legal instruments. Some such documents are: Japanese...

Look up regal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The musical instrument known as the regal or regalle (from Middle French régale) is a small portable...

In metrology (test and measurement science), a synthetic instrument is software that performs a specific synthesis, analysis, or measurement function....

musical instrument in the yoke lutes family. It was a seven-stringed professional version of the lyre, which was regarded as a rustic, or folk instrument, appropriate...

three-course chordophone of Cuban origin. The most widespread variety of the instrument is the original Cuban tres with six strings. Its sound has become a defining...

The German Instrument of Surrender was a legal document effecting the unconditional surrender of the remaining German armed forces to the Allies, ending...

ruan (Chinese: 阮; pinyin: ruǎn) is a traditional Chinese plucked string instrument. It is a lute with a fretted neck, a circular body, and four strings....

In aviation, instrument flight rules (IFR) is one of two sets of regulations governing all aspects of civil aviation aircraft operations; the other is...

electronic musical instrument or electrophone is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry. Such an instrument sounds by outputting...

The destruction of musical instruments is an act performed by a few pop, rock and other musicians during live performances, particularly at the end of...

The Urey instrument, or Urey: Mars Organic and Oxidant Detector was a developmental spacecraft instrument for detecting organic compounds including amino...

National Reconnaissance Office and will carry two scientific instruments. The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI) is a 300.8-megapixel multi-band visible and near-infrared...

quijada, charrasca, or jawbone (in English) is an idiophone percussion instrument made from the jawbone of a donkey, horse, mule, or cattle, producing a...

a thumb-hole giving a diatonic compass of an octave. The body of the instrument is traditionally carved from a single piece of wood or bone (See photograph...

stringed instruments, a large hollow body, the string and wind bass instruments are usually the largest instruments in their families or instrument classes...

surveying instrument, for example a theodolite, total station, GNSS antenna or target to a tripod. A tribrach allows the survey instrument to be repeatedly...

The nevel, nebel (Hebrew: נֵבֶל nēḇel), was a stringed instrument used by the Phoenicians and the Israelites. The Greeks translated the name as nabla (νάβλα...

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece...

Brooks Instrument is a manufacturer of flow control and measurement equipment based in Hatfield, PA. It was a division of Emerson (NYSE:EMR) until December...

Musical Instrument Museum or Museum of Musical Instruments may refer to: Worldwide: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Musical Instruments Museum, Rome...

also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a...

The Radiation Budget Instrument (RBI) is a scanning radiometer capable of measuring Earth's reflected sunlight and emitted thermal radiation. The project...

use. Analogue instrument meter with analogue display ("needles"). Until the later decades the most common basic type. Digital instrument meter with analogue...

In quantum physics, a quantum instrument is a mathematical description of a quantum measurement, capturing both the classical and quantum outputs. It can...

music production, the recording studio is often treated as a musical instrument when it plays a significant role in the composition of music. Sometimes...

musical instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent. It is crafted from a single block of wood with a hollow resonator. The instrument has three...

In many countries, a statutory instrument is a form of delegated legislation. Statutory instruments are the principal form of delegated or secondary legislation...

major calculating instrument that was in use from the end of the sixteenth century until the nineteenth century. It is an instrument consisting of two...

In organology, the study of musical instruments, many methods of classifying instruments exist. Most methods are specific to a particular cultural group...

sambuke) was an ancient stringed instrument of Asiatic origin. The term sambuca is also applied to a number of other instruments. The original sambuca is generally...

Chinese musical instruments are traditionally grouped into eight categories (classified by the material from which the instruments were made) known as...

The instrument effect is an issue in experimental methodology meaning that any change during the measurement, or, the instrument, may influence the research...

medieval musical instruments Fictional music#Fictional musical instruments List of folk music traditions List of musical instruments by Hornbostel–Sachs...

etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as...

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist...

General Instrument (GI) was an American electronics manufacturer based in Horsham, Pennsylvania, specializing in semiconductors and cable television equipment...

A keyboard percussion instrument, also known as a bar or mallet percussion instrument, is a pitched percussion instrument arranged in the same pattern...

lyra) is a stringed musical instrument that is classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as a member of the lute family of instruments. In organology, a lyre is considered...

Traditional Korean musical instruments comprise a wide range of string, wind, and percussion instruments. Korean string instruments include those that are...

A halil is an ancient Jewish reed instrument. It is similar to the Greek aulos. The instrument is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament in 1 Samuel...

Instrument mechanics in engineering are tradesmen who specialize in installing, troubleshooting, and repairing instrumentation, automation and control...

Standard instrument departure (SID) routes are published flight procedures followed by aircraft on an IFR flight plan immediately after takeoff from an...

performance. Music may be performed using a wide variety of musical instruments, including the human voice. It can also be composed, sequenced, or otherwise...

Reeves Instrument Corporation (RICO) was a Cold War manufacturer of computer and radar systems for the United States. The corporation was the Project Cyclone...

performance, air instruments refers to the miming of sound-producing-gestures used in playing musical instruments. Simply put, air instruments are imaginary...

First Instrument is the 1990 debut album by American vocalist Rachelle Ferrell, first released in Japan on Somethin' Else Records. The album was later...

This family of musical instruments (also called crystallophones) includes those whose primary material is glass. They may be played using percussive techniques...

musical instrument by shaping the frequency content of the sound and to apply speech sounds (in the same way as singing) onto the sounds of the instrument. Typically...

instrument carries a variety of connotations. A lead instrument could be a reference to an instrument that plays the melody of a piece, an instrument...

range of up to five octaves. It was one of the most important stringed instruments in China, along with the guqin. The se gradually faded out of use, having...

A blunt instrument is any solid object that can be used as a hand tool, weapon or thrown projectile for striking a target, exerts impact via direct transfer...

fingers, thumb or with a pick. Because the electric bass guitar is a quiet instrument acoustically, it requires external amplification, generally via electromagnetic...

A signal instrument is a musical instrument which is not only used for music as such, but also fit to give sound signals as a form of auditive communication...

The Instrument 1 (sometimes stylised in all caps) is a MIDI controller designed by Artiphon, a Nashville-based music technology startup. The device was...

(Chinese: 管; pinyin: guǎn; lit. 'pipe', 'tube') is a Chinese double reed wind instrument. The northern Chinese version is called guanzi 管子 or bili (simplified...

centimeters across, used in Bassac theater for scenes requiring a loud instrument, such as battle scenes. It is also used to signal the entrance and exit...

EWI (from electronic wind instrument, /ˈiːwi/ EE-wee) is a type of wind controller, an electronic musical instrument invented by Nyle Steiner. The EWI...

type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed...

instrument, the purpose and function of which depends on the instrument. However, the term is most often used in the context of keyboard instruments,...

aviation, instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) are weather conditions that require pilots to fly primarily by reference to flight instruments, and therefore...

urgent need of preservation in 2011. Like most other Mongolian musical instruments, the limbe is traditionally only allowed to be played by men. The origin...

A level is an optical instrument used to establish or verify points in the same horizontal plane in a process known as levelling. It is used in conjunction...

pedals are to be used, whether a string instrument should be bowed or plucked, or whether the bow of a string instrument should move up or down). A clef assigns...

In navigational instruments, a plotter is an instrument which marks the position of a vehicle on a map or chart. Several types of plotters exist. These...

The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges. It is composed of six pieces, and is usually made...

A vehicle instrument is an instrument that measures some parameters in the vehicle, often found on its control panel or dashboard. Speedometer Tachometer...

MIRI, or the Mid-Infrared Instrument, is an instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. MIRI is a camera and a spectrograph that observes mid to long...

Instrument is a documentary film directed by Jem Cohen about the band Fugazi. The film takes its title from the Fugazi song of the same name, from their...

钹; traditional Chinese: 鈸; pinyin: bó; Wade–Giles: po) is a percussion instrument originating in China, a type of cymbal. It consists of two plates that...

on a stringed musical instrument and transmits the vibration of those strings to another structural component of the instrument—typically a soundboard...

The Gubal is a musical instrument developed by the Swiss company PANArt Hang Manufacturing Ltd.. It is a vessel made of PANArt's patented Pang, a deep...

Reflecting instruments are those that use mirrors to enhance their ability to make measurements. In particular, the use of mirrors permits one to observe...

OSIRIS (Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed Imager System) is an instrument that measures vertical profiles of spectrally dispersed, limb scattered sunlight...

musical instrument (or custom-made instrument) is a musical instrument that modifies or extends an existing instrument or class of instruments, or defines...

This is a wide-ranging, inclusive list of percussion instruments. It includes: Instruments classified by Hornbostel–Sachs as struck or friction idiophones...

The hummel (also hommel or humle) is an old Northern European stringed instrument similar to an older type of zither and is related to the Norwegian langeleik...

under visual flight rules intentionally or unintentionally enters into instrument meteorological conditions. Flying an aircraft without visual reference...

μπουζούκι [buˈzuki]; plural. bouzoukis or bouzoukia, μπουζούκια) is a musical instrument popular in Greece. It is a member of the long-necked lute family, with...

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is a scientific research instrument for conducting spectrographic astronomical surveys of distant galaxies...

The bandora or bandore is a large long-necked plucked string-instrument that can be regarded as a bass cittern though it does not have the re-entrant tuning...

chordophones (string instruments), aerophones (wind instruments), membranophones (drums) and idiophones (non-drum percussion instruments). Chikara Dhantara...

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (/ˈmɪdi/; MIDI) is an American-Japanese technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface...

The heliotrope is an instrument that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight over great distances to mark the positions of participants in a land survey. The...

headrest, and the executioner pushed the victim's head against it. This instrument's strength lies primarily in the psychological fear caused to the victims...

In music, the organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means (generally woodwind or electric) for producing tones. The organs...

A quantitative PCR instrument, also called real-time PCR machine, is an analytical instrument that amplifies and detects DNA. It combines the functions...

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings. It is usually held...

Instrument error refers to a measurement error inherited from a measuring instrument. It could be caused by manufacturing tolerances of components in the...

'wood' and φωνή (phōnḗ) 'sound, voice'; lit. 'sound of wood') is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets...

family of musical instruments is a grouping of several different but related sizes or types of instruments. Some schemes of musical instrument classification...

mulberry or other harder woods, such as walnut. The bore through the instrument is about 1.5 centimetres (0.59 in) in diameter. The double reed is made...

The sogo (Korean: 소고; Hanja: 小鼓) is a traditional Korean percussion instrument made by hitting a wooden stick with leather on both sides. It is also called...

abbreviated as cello (/ˈtʃɛloʊ/ CHEL-oh), is a medium-low pitched bowed string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths:...

This is a chart of stringed instrument tunings. Instruments are listed alphabetically by their most commonly known name. A course may consist of one or...

Douglass-Ishizaka Problems playing this file? See media help. A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are pressed, activating an action mechanism...

properly called a gambang kayu ('wooden gambang') is a xylophone-like instrument used in Indonesian gamelan and kulintang ensembles. It has wooden bars...

instruments of symbolic or cultural importance within a nation, state, ethnicity, tribe or other group of people. In some cases, national instruments...

The tar (Persian: تار [t̪ʰɒːɹ], lit. 'string') is an Iranian string instrument in the lute family, used by many cultures and countries in the Middle East...

Authentic instrument may refer to: Historically informed performance Public instrument This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...

musical instrument. The instrument was called xiqin in China, referencing the Xi (the creators, a Mongol tribe) and qin (Chinese for stringed instrument). It...

part of Earth's atmosphere. The most prominent instrument at HAARP is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high-power radio frequency transmitter...

Dental instruments are tools used by dental professionals to provide dental treatment. They include tools to examine, manipulate, treat, restore, and...

Baroque Instruments (c. 1600–1750) are Musical instruments used in Baroque music. They were partly used already before, partly are still used today, but...

and provided with vanes to permit observation of relative bearings. The instrument was named for one Pelorus, said to have been the pilot for Hannibal, circa...

is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument was invented in the 18th...

tro (Khmer: ទ្រ) is Cambodia's traditional spike fiddle, a bowed string instrument that is held and played vertically. Spike fiddles have a handle that passes...

A statutory instrument (SI) is the principal form in which delegated legislation is made in the United Kingdom. Statutory instruments are governed by...

A dermatome is a surgical instrument for producing thin slices of skin from a donor area, for use in skin grafts. One of its main applications is for reconstituting...

tambour, Italian: tamburo Militaries may use the tabor as a marching instrument; it can accompany parades and processions. A tabor has a cylindrical wood...

A slide is a part of a wind instrument consisting of two (or more) pieces of tubing fitted one closely inside the other, and used to vary the overall length...

alpha-numerical code that does not contain information characterizing financial instruments, but serves for uniform identification of a security at trading and settlement...

regenerative properties. Each Giver has access to their respective Vital Instrument (人器, Jinki), powerful weapons converted from everyday objects by infusing...

Turkish plucked string folk instrument. It is the smallest and highest pitched member of the bağlama family of instruments. It is found in nearly every...

and without valves, similar to the natural trumpet. Resembling these instruments is the modern fanfare trumpet, like the chiarina or natural trumpet,...

Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing...

A Speculative instrument is an instrument which has been designed to aid those undertaking a speculative or investigative task. The English philosopher...

An instrument landing system localizer, or simply localizer (LOC, or LLZ prior to 2007), is a system of horizontal guidance in the instrument landing system...

Refinitiv Instrument Code, previously Reuters Instrument Code (RIC), is a ticker-like code used by Refinitiv to identify financial instruments and indices...

A policy instrument constituency is a theoretical concept in political science and describes a network of actors (individuals and organizations) focused...

Brass instrument valves are valves used to change the length of tubing of a brass instrument allowing the player to reach the notes of various harmonic...

балала́йка, pronounced [bəɫɐˈɫajkə]) Balalaika is a Russian stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular wooden, hollow body, fretted neck, and...

Instruments used in surveying include: Alidade Alidade table Cosmolabe Dioptra Dumpy level Engineer's chain Geodimeter Graphometer Groma (surveying) Laser...

A pitched percussion instrument (also known as a melodic or tuned percussion instrument) is a percussion instrument used to produce musical notes of one...

The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called...

A field mill is a specialized instrument used for measuring the strength of electric fields in the atmosphere, one of the key parameters of atmospheric...

The hornpipe can refer to a specific instrument or a class of woodwind instruments consisting of a single reed, a large diameter melody pipe with finger...

instrument, from the state of Veracruz, Mexico. It has four strings and is a low pitched instrument in the son jarocho string family of instruments....

guitar) family of instruments. The ukulele is of Portuguese origin and was popularized in Hawaii. The tone and volume of the instrument vary with size and...

keyboard instrument that makes its sound by plucking a set of strings. In a harpsichord, depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which...

Pandi Melam, Panchari melam etc. This musical instrument is usually seen in south India. The instrument is like a long horn (Kombu in Tamil tulu and Malayalam)...

The Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI), nicknamed the trade bazooka, is a regulation of the European Union proposed in December 2021, adopted in November 2023...

A mathematical instrument is a tool or device used in the study or practice of mathematics. In geometry, construction of various proofs was done using...

(Arabic: مرفع, Urdu: مرفع) is a single hemispherical drum or percussion instrument. It may have originated in Africa. Marfa Music Ifthekhar, J. S. (10 July...

of a musical instrument to cause vibration, which the instrument emits as sound. The vast majority of bows are used with string instruments, such as the...

company developed hi-fi products, radios, calculators and scientific instruments. When it became clear that Radionics was failing, Sinclair took steps...

Seiler Instrument & Mfg. Co. is a manufacturer specializing in optical fire control equipment as well as a major distributor of surveying software and...

The bu (Korean: 부; Hanja: 缶) is a traditional Korean percussion instrument. It is a clay pot that is beaten with a bamboo whisk and used in Korean Confucian...

جَنْك al-ǧank or صَنْج ṣanǧ; Georgian: ჩანგი changi) is a Persian musical instrument, a vertical angular harp. It was very popular and used widely during the...

The triangle, or musical triangle, is a musical instrument in the percussion family, classified as an idiophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification...

The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating...

Instrument control consists of connecting a desktop instrument to a computer and taking measurements. In the late 1960s the first bus used for communication...

The cornet (/ˈkɔːrnɪt/, US: /kɔːrˈnɛt/) is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape...

In aviation, instrument landing system glide path, commonly referred to as a glide path (G/P) or glide slope (G/S), is "a system of vertical guidance embodied...

from the ancient xeremia a medieval instrument largely used until the Baroque. Probably, the name of the instrument comes from its strident sound similar...

The taus, also known as the mayuri veena, is a bowed string instrument from North India. It is a form of veena used in North India with a peacock-shaped...

Meteorological instruments (or weather instruments), including meteorological sensors (weather sensors), are the equipment used to find the state of the...

Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the...

A Scottish statutory instrument (SSI; Scottish Gaelic: Ionnsramaid Reachdail na h-Alba) is subordinate legislation made by the Scottish Ministers, as well...

eufonio; Spanish: bombardino) is a tenor- and baritone-voiced valved brass instrument pitched in 9-foot (9′) B♭ an octave below the B♭ trumpet or cornet, employed...

productions, an instrument schedule is a listing of all the lighting instruments and information about them used in a show. The instruments are organized...

Virtual instrument software architecture (VISA) is a widely used application programming interface (API) in the test and measurement (T&M) industry for...

Appalachian dulcimer (many variant names; see below) is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, originally...

"Trembita" Musical Instrument Factory manufactures stringed instruments. Since 1948 it has manufactured banduras, a Ukrainian instrument; it also produces...

The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in...

A bell /ˈbɛl/ () is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that—when struck—vibrates in a single...

The Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (Spanish: Movimiento al Socialismo – Instrumento Político por la Soberanía...

closely related voice synthesis NMOS LSI chips manufactured by General Instrument in the early 1980s, able to model the human vocal tract by a software...

The steelpan (also known as a pan or steel drum) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago. Steelpan musicians are called pannists. In...

Elkhart Band Instrument Company was a musical instrument manufacturer in Elkhart, Indiana. The company was founded in 1923 by Andrew Hubble Beardsley...

A lute (/ljuːt/ or /luːt/) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening...

Kokra is a musical instrument used by the Kanikkar tribal community of Kerala in India. The upper half of the instrument is shaped like the comb on a...

(Arabic: مزمار‎; plural مَزَامِير mazāmīr) is any single or double reed wind instrument. In Egypt and the Levant(Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Jordan)the term...

In medicine, a sound (/saʊnd/), also called a sonde (/sɒnd/), is an instrument for probing and dilating passages within the body, the best-known examples...

The 1809 Instrument of Government (Swedish: 1809 års regeringsform), adopted on 6 June 1809 by the Riksdag of the Estates and King Charles XIII, was the...

using a sling, with the bow in the overhanging arm. The origin of the instrument is unknown, but its historical foothold and modern development is much...

An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout...

simultaneous observations with complementary instruments. The UTs are equipped with a large set of instruments permitting observations to be performed from...

music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics...

rub) are used as a percussion instrument, employing the ribbed metal surface of the cleaning device as a rhythm instrument. As traditionally used in jazz...

The piri (Korean: 피리) is a Korean double reed instrument, used in both the folk and classical (court) music of Korea. Originating in Central Asia, it was...

A dilator (or dilatator) is a surgical instrument or medical implement used to induce dilation, that is, to expand an opening or passage such as the cervix...

The Pakistani Instrument of Surrender (Bengali: পাকিস্তানের আত্মসমর্পণের দলিল, romanized: Pākistānēr Ātmôsômôrpôṇēr Dôlil) was a legal document signed...

file? See media help. The marimba (/məˈrɪmbə/ mə-RIM-bə) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck...

water at night and lost control of his plane. Kennedy did not hold an instrument rating and therefore he was only certified to fly under visual flight...

The European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) came into force in 2014. It was the financial arm of the European Neighbourhood Policy, the EU's foreign policy...

Elderly Instruments is a musical instrument retailer in Lansing, Michigan, United States, with a reputation as a "megastore", a repair shop and a locus...

media help. The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically...

The NI, formerly the National Instruments Corporation, is an American multinational company headquartered in Austin, Texas. NI is the producer of automated...

Kalibr Instrument Plant (Russian: Завод «Калибр») is a company based in Moscow, Russia. The Moscow Kalibr Instrument Plant produces universal and specialized...

spacecraft carries two instruments: the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) and the High Frequency Instrument (HFI). Both instruments can detect both the total...

This is a list of medieval musical instruments used in European music during the Medieval period. It covers the period from before 5th into the 15th A...

is a form of folksong sung with a single-stringed traditional musical instrument invented and used by the Nagas since time immemorial. It is popularly...

The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments and a member of the family of duct flutes that includes tin whistles and flageolets. It is the...

Two instruments distinguished solely by bore In music, the bore of a wind instrument (including woodwind and brass) is its interior chamber. This defines...

Gregorian chant. Other music used only instruments or both voices and instruments (typically with the instruments accompanying the voices). The medieval...

Kannel (pronounced [ˈkɑnːel]) is an Estonian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery...

metrology and most mechanical trades, along with other dimensional instruments such as dial, vernier, and digital calipers. Micrometers are usually...

single-stringed musical instrument (and musical style) traditionally used in the Dinarides region of Southeastern Europe (in the Balkans). The instrument is always...

gyroscopes, and referencing instruments to keep the probe's radio antenna pointed toward Earth. Collectively, these instruments are part of the Attitude...

Traditional Japanese musical instruments, known as wagakki (和楽器) in Japanese, are musical instruments used in the traditional folk music of Japan. They...

practice, the act of tuning an instrument or voice. Tuning systems, the various systems of pitches used to tune an instrument, and their theoretical bases...

On a string instrument, position is the relative location of the hand on the instrument's neck, indicated by ordinal numbers (e.g., 3rd). Fingering, independent...

Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs. This system...

the existing hammered dulcimer instruments which were already present in Central and Eastern Europe. Today the instrument is mainly played in Hungary, Slovakia...

string instrument from China. It has a large soundbox covered on one end with python skin. Like most other members of the huqin family of instruments, it...

The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually...

Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air...

A mural instrument is an angle measuring instrument mounted on or built into a wall. For astronomical purposes, these walls were oriented so they lie...

The Omnichord is an electronic musical instrument introduced in 1981 by the Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation. Conceived as an electronic autoharp...

The York Band Instrument Company was a musical instrument manufacturer in Grand Rapids, Michigan. James Warren York was a former army musician and played...

The ottu (or otter) is a double reed wind instrument, used in Carnatic music of Southern India to provide a drone accompaniment to the similar nadaswaram...

Chinese bowed string instrument in the huqin family, used primarily in Beijing opera. It is the smallest and highest pitched instrument in the huqin family...

communion. However, in combination those four bodies do function as "instruments of communion", because all churches of the communion participate in them...

A measuring instrument is a device to measure a physical quantity. In the physical sciences, quality assurance, and engineering, measurement is the activity...

Potter Instrument Company was a public American computer hardware company active from 1942 to the late 1970s and based in Long Island. It was founded by...

The Musical Instrument Bank is a repository of string instruments maintained by the Canada Council for the Arts. It was established in 1985. Every three...

variant spellings) are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe The instruments consist of a wooden board (often fitted...

and a separate horsehair bow. It is used both as a solo instrument and the leading instrument in folk ensembles, most notably in the Salo Saw Sueng. The...

Kurdish musical instruments (Kurdish: ئامێرە میوزیکییە کوردییەکان, romanized: Amêre mîwzîkiye Kurdiyekan) are traditional instruments used in the music...

The charango is a small Andean stringed instrument of the lute family, from the Quechua and Aymara populations in the territory of the Altiplano in post-Colonial...

Organ, and Mason & Hamlin. In addition to the larger, furniture-sized instruments popular in the West, more compact designs also developed. The portable...

二胡; pinyin: èrhú; [aɻ˥˩xu˧˥]) is a Chinese two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, that is sometimes known in the Western...

The bulgari or boulgari (Greek: μπουλγαρί) is a string instrument that originates from Turkey, especially from Anatolia among the Oghuz Turks living in...

ਕਾਟੋ), also spelled as Kaato or Katto, is one of the traditional musical instruments of Punjab. It is used in various cultural activities especially in folk...

part of [Kevin's] musical upbringing". His first experience playing an instrument was accompanying his father on guitar. He said: "I learned guitar by playing...

indications with associated measurement uncertainties (of the calibrated instrument or secondary standard) and, in a second step, uses this information to...

the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds with rubber pads, each matching one of the keys and responding...

The rabel (or arrabel, robel, rovel) is a bowed stringed instrument from Spain, a rustic folk-fiddle descended from the medieval rebec,[citation needed]...

folk music and certain types of film and video game soundtracks. The instrument's exact lineage is still a matter of some debate, with scholars divided...

The ocarina (otherwise known as a potato flute) is a wind musical instrument; it is a type of vessel flute. Variations exist, but a typical ocarina is...

A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound as air flows past a vibrating reed in a frame. Air pressure is typically generated by...

of the Federal Food Drug & Cosmetic (FD&C) Act defines a device as an "instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent...

ARP Instruments, Inc. was a Lexington, Massachusetts manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman in 1969. It created...

percussion instrument carved in the shape of a tiger with a serrated back, played by running a bamboo whisk across the serrations. The instrument is often...

cor des Alpes; Italian: corno alpino) is a traditional lip-reed wind instrument. It consists of a long straight wooden natural horn, with a length of...

Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation was a company founded by Sherman Fairchild. It was based on the East Coast of the United States, and provided...

modern designs come in ivory, fiberglass and various metals. The six-hole instrument covers two and a half octaves of music. The bansuri is typically between...

viˈɔːla -]), or viol, or informally gamba, is a bowed and fretted string instrument that is played da gamba (i.e. "on the leg"). It is distinct from the later...

Chinese musical instrument. It has been played since ancient times, and has traditionally been favoured by scholars and literati as an instrument of great subtlety...

Korean traditional music. The instrument is long, and is blown into at a thin end. At the other end of the instrument is a bell that flares outwards...

The European Development Fund (EDF) was the main instrument for European Union (EU) aid for development cooperation in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP)...

The living instrument doctrine is a method of judicial interpretation developed and used by the European Court of Human Rights to interpret the European...

The oboe (/ˈoʊboʊ/ OH-boh) is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such...

MAG-LITE) is a brand of flashlight manufactured in the United States by Mag Instrument, Inc. located in Ontario, California, and founded by Anthony Maglica....

The Mortal Instruments is a series of six young adult fantasy novels written by American author Cassandra Clare, the last of which was published on May...

MKS Inc. is a technology company that supplies instruments, subsystems, systems, process control technologies, and specialty chemical products used in...

(筑; pinyin: zhù (Mainland); zhú (Taiwan)) was an ancient Chinese string instrument. Though rarely used, three very old specimens in varying degrees of preservation...

the side with the fingernails; similar to the Gadulka. The body of the instrument was very similar to the modern violin, but the neck was very wide, and...

hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-string instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant...

The ulla (Korean: 운라; Hanja: 雲鑼; 雲羅) is a traditional Korean percussion instrument comprising a set of ten small tuned gongs in a wooden frame. They are...

The botija (botijuela; bunga) is a Caribbean musical instrument of the aerophone type. It is a potbellied earthenware jug or jar with two openings and...

A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating...

The nuts of some common instruments A nut, on a stringed musical instrument, is a small piece of hard material that supports the strings at the end closest...

The machete (Portuguese: machete de braga) is a small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal. It has a double bulged body, traditionally made of wood...

(wind instrument), an ancient Chinese free-reed mouth organ, larger than the sheng Yu (percussion instrument), an ancient Chinese musical instrument in a...

The Instrument for Stability (IfS, more commonly referred to as the Stability Instrument) was a financial and political instrument at the disposal of the...

The Herrmann brain dominance instrument (HBDI) is a system to measure and describe thinking preferences in people, developed by William "Ned" Herrmann...

Janzi is a Ugandan string instrument invented by the musician James Ssewakiryanga, also known as Ssewa Ssewa. It was vetted and accorded utility model...

The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital synthesizer, music sampler, and digital audio workstation (DAW) introduced in 1979...

anglais), or English horn (mainly North America), is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length...

The Parley of Instruments is a London-based early music group founded in 1979. The ensemble's co-founders were Peter Holman and the violinist Roy Goodman...

what can be heard by the listener, including the characteristics of the instrument itself, differences in playing technique (e.g. embouchure for woodwind...

conceptually similar to the Rhodes piano, though the sound is different. The instrument was invented by Benjamin Miessner, who had worked on various types of...

The Jammu and Kashmir Instrument of Accession is a legal document executed by Maharaja Hari Singh, ruler of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, on...

The violetta was a 16th-century musical instrument. It is believed to have been similar to a violin, but occasionally had only three strings, particularly...

a property of musical instruments that means that they can play multiple independent melody lines simultaneously. Instruments featuring polyphony are...

The Clarion is an accessible electronic musical instrument developed by the UK-based charity Open Up Music. The Clarion has been designed for disabled...

The Mahuri is a wind instrument made of wood and metal and it holds a special place in the cultural traditions of Odisha. It is used in religious ceremonies...

A theodolite (/θiˈɒdəˌlaɪt/) is a precision optical instrument for measuring angles between designated visible points in the horizontal and vertical planes...

Jamaica. The instrument is an idiochord in that the instrument string is made from the same piece of bamboo that composes the body. The instrument is played...

A viewing instrument is a type of optical instrument that is used to assist viewing or visually examining an object or scenery. binoculars contact lenses...

Dynasty (618–907 CE), the guzheng was perhaps the most commonly played instrument in China. The guzheng is played throughout all of China with a variety...

Problems playing this file? See media help. The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by means of a hand-cranked rosined wheel which rubs...

thattai (Tamil: தட்டை) is an Indian percussion instrument, a type of clapper belonging to the idiophone instruments family. The thattai consists of a cane tube...

The melodica is a handheld free reed instrument similar in sound to a pump organ, harmonica, or an accordion. It features a musical keyboard on top, and...

A single-reed instrument is a woodwind instrument that uses only one reed to produce sound. The very earliest single-reed instruments were documented...

The shehnai (also spelled shenai) is a musical instrument from South Asia. It is made of wood, with a double reed at one end and a metal or wooden flared...

The long-string instrument is a musical instrument in which the string is of such a length that the fundamental transverse wave is below what a person...

heard in wind instruments and the shape of the melodies, while the African influences can be heard in the rhythm and percussion instruments, and European...

My Favorite Instrument (also released as Soul-O!) is a 1968 album by jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. It was his first solo piano release. Writing for AllMusic...

Orba is an electronic musical instrument developed by the American music technology company Artiphon. It is a small synthesiser released in 2020 via a...

percussion instrument from Colombia. The esterilla consists of long, narrow pieces of wood woven together in a similar fashion as a placemat. The instrument is...

A sampler is an electronic musical instrument that records and plays back samples (portions of sound recordings). Samples may comprise elements such as...

This is a list of official state instruments. Michigan's Instrument is the Appalachian Dulcimer "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-07-20...

The baritone horn, or often simply the baritone, is a valved brass instrument pitched in B♭ in the saxhorn family, employed chiefly in brass, military...

A writing implement or writing instrument is an object used to produce writing. Writing consists of different figures, lines, and or forms. Most of these...

plucked-string folk-instrument. It combines elements of the zither and lute and, up until the 1940s, was also often called a kobza. Early instruments (c. 1700)...

spacecraft. Hubble features a 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) mirror, and its five main instruments observe in the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared regions of the...

material alteration of a legal instrument with the specific intent to defraud. Tampering with a certain legal instrument may be forbidden by law in some...

A discipline is a small scourge (whip) used as an instrument of penance by certain members of some Christian denominations (including Roman Catholics,...

and the Middle East Tar (string instrument), a long-necked, waisted lute family instrument Tar (Azerbaijani instrument), a long-necked, plucked lute "Tar"...

The 1772 Instrument of Government (Swedish: regeringsform) was the constitution of the Kingdom of Sweden from 1772 to 1809. It is also known as the "Swedish-Finnish...

The chikara is a bowed stringed musical instrument from India used to play Indian folk music. It is used by the tribal people of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh...

The pepa is a hornpipe musical instrument that is used in traditional music in Assam, India. In Boro language, it is known as Phenpha. It is usually made...

traditional music of the Nuer and Anuak ethnic groups of western Ethiopia. The instruments is also called thoom Otieno and may also be spelled toom and thom. Thoom...

The fou (缶 or 缻; pinyin: fǒu) is an ancient Chinese percussion instrument consisting of a pottery or bronzeware crock, jar, pot, or similar vessel, which...

frequency is an integer multiple of a fundamental frequency. Pitched musical instruments are often based on an acoustic resonator such as a string or a column...

The ozone monitoring instrument (OMI) is a nadir-viewing visual and ultraviolet spectrometer aboard the NASA Aura spacecraft, which is part of the satellite...

group of stringed instruments of medieval and Renaissance Europe, including not only the lyre and harp but also necked, string instruments. In fact, unless...

Musical Instruments of the Tiwa tribe add to the rhythm of the festivals of the Tiwa tribe. Traditional musical instruments plays a major role in enrichment...

Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the orchestral Brandenburg Concertos; solo instrumental...

The lapa is a wind instrument originating in 19th century China. It is made of metal and shaped like an oboe. The lapa is usually 94 centimeters in length...

The Post Plotting Instrument, or simply Post Instrument and sometimes the Observer Instrument, was the standard optical sighting system used by the UK's...

The dojo is a hybrid instrument designed as a cross between the Dobro-style guitar and the bluegrass banjo. The body and resonator are like the Dobro,...

A prerogative instrument is a legal instrument issued under the royal prerogative, in contrast with a Statutory Instrument (which is made under the authority...

musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction (instruments of this type...

strings'), is a three-stringed traditional Japanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese instrument sanxian. It is played with a plectrum called a bachi...

also known as a Geiger–Müller counter or G-M counter) is an electronic instrument for detecting and measuring ionizing radiation with the use of a Geiger–Müller...

in space, and is equipped with high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments, allowing it to view objects too old, distant, or faint for the Hubble...

versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments". This article...

who may be performing completely alone or supported by an accompanying instrument such as a piano or organ, a continuo group (in Baroque music), or the...

The Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments (SCPI; often pronounced "skippy") defines a standard for syntax and commands to use in controlling...

The National String Instrument Corporation was an American guitar company first formed to manufacture banjos and then the original resonator guitars. National...

The Algerian mandole (mandol, mondol) is a steel-string fretted instrument resembling an elongated mandolin, widely used in Algerian music such as Chaabi...

pronounced [mandoˈliːno]; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly...

English; alto horn in American English, sometimes E♭ horn) is a brass instrument in the saxhorn family pitched in E♭ with three piston valves. It has a...

of material that vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument. Most woodwind instrument reeds are made from Arundo donax ("Giant cane") or synthetic...

(part of CAPS instrument) IEB: Instrument Expanded Blocks (instrument command sequences) IMS: Ion Mass Spectrometer (part of CAPS instrument) ITL: Integrated...

the crushable ribs of the impact attenuation system; and a number of instruments. The CM-SM umbilical, the point where wiring and plumbing ran from one...

This list contains "traditional" musical instruments used in Nepal. Instruments overlap with nearby countries, including India and Tibet. An example is...

Policy analysis Consultation (which permeates the entire process) Policy instrument development Building coordination and coalitions Program Design: Decision...

single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing...

Axionicus about the instrument and its sound. Described by Xenophon as about 9 inches (23 centimetres) long, the gingras was a wind instrument that produced...

The bass trombone is the bass instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments. Modern instruments are pitched in the same B♭ as the tenor trombone...

Latin word for elephant, representing the ivory tusks used to create the instrument. The first documented use of the word olifant to define a hunting horn...

traditional Chinese musical instrument belonging to the plucked category of instruments. Sometimes called the "Chinese lute", the instrument has a pear-shaped wooden...

The Financial Instrument Global Identifier (FIGI) /ˈfɪ.gi/ (formerly Bloomberg Global Identifier (BBGID)) is an open standard, unique identifier of financial...

open source audio plug-in software interface that integrates virtual instruments and effects units into digital audio workstations. VST and similar technologies...

unpitched percussion instrument is a percussion instrument played in such a way as to produce sounds of indeterminate pitch, or an instrument normally played...

history Zhu (string instrument), ancient Chinese string instrument Zhu (percussion instrument), ancient Chinese percussion instrument Zhu (musician), an...

SPICE (Spacecraft Planet Instrument C-matrix Events) is a NASA ancillary information system used to compute geometric information used in planning and...

is a Chinese bowed string instrument with four strings. It is a member of the huqin family of instruments. The instrument's name comes from the words...

The angélique (French, from Italian angelica) is a plucked string instrument of the lute family of the baroque era. It combines features of the lute, the...

The bones, also known as rhythm bones, are a folk instrument that, in their original form, consists of a pair of animal bones, but may also be played on...

A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It consists of expanding and contracting bellows, with buttons...

The Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation (鈴木楽器製作所, Suzuki Gakki Seisakusho) is a Japanese musical instrument manufacturer. Founded in 1953 as a manufacturer...

An instrument rating is an authorization required for a pilot to fly under instrument flight rules (IFR). In the United States, the rating is issued by...

A gong is a percussion instrument originating from Southeast Asia, and used widely in Southeast Asian and East Asian musical traditions. Gongs are made...

The thumbscrew, (also known as devils handshake) is a torture instrument which was first used in early modern Europe. It is a simple vise, sometimes with...

The virginals is a keyboard instrument of the harpsichord family. It was popular in Europe during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. A virginal...

This is an incomplete list of Portuguese traditional musical instruments. Adufe: the adufe is a square double skinned frame drum. The skins are sewn together...

টোকাৰী) is a stringed instrument played with the fingertips. The Tokari is the most widely used and popular stringed instruments in different parts of...

A kaleidoscope (/kəˈlaɪdəskoʊp/) is an optical instrument with two or more reflecting surfaces (or mirrors) tilted to each other at an angle, so that one...

This is a list of instruments sorted according to the Hornbostel-Sachs number system, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.321 under...

المنجور) is a musical instrument used in Eastern Arabia. It is made of goat hooves attached to a cloth. It is played by tying the instrument around the waist...

This is a list of lists of musicians. Contents Genre Instrument Location or nationality See also Lists of a cappella groups Lists of blues musicians by...

The clavichord is a stringed rectangular keyboard instrument that was used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical...

is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conventional guitar in that it has no frets—but markers...

VLTI GRAVITY GRAVITY is an instrument on the interferometer of the Very Large Telescope (VLTI). It either combines the light of the four Unit Telescopes...

type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap. Unlike the usual...

you'll be in your marriage." Despite controversies over validity, the instrument has demonstrated widespread influence since its adoption by the Educational...

Berlin Musical Instrument Museum The Berlin Musical Instrument Museum (German: Musikinstrumenten-Museum Berlin) is located at the Kulturforum on Tiergartenstraße...

The Boston Musical Instrument Company was an American manufacturer of brass band instruments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries located in Boston...

ondes musicales (lit. 'musical waves') is an early electronic musical instrument. Early models were played only by moving a ring tied to a wire, creating...

organon 'instrument' and λόγος logos 'the study of') is the science of musical instruments and their classifications. It embraces study of instruments' history...

Stage lighting instruments (lanterns, or luminaires in Europe) are used in stage lighting to illuminate theatrical productions, concerts, and other performances...

National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101") is a securities regulatory instrument that governs how companies...

The gittern was a relatively small gut-strung, round-backed instrument that first appeared in literature and pictorial representation during the 13th century...

An autoharp is a string instrument in the zither family. Its distinctive structural feature is a set of bars, each with damping pads that mute the strings...

'one-string', also called, ektar, golki Nepali: गोल्) is a one-stringed musical instrument used in the traditional music of Bengal, and used in modern-day music...

refers only to fuke shakuhachi, the theory that the shakuhachi is an instrument unique to Japan is widely accepted. The shakuhachi is traditionally made...

sometimes Jori-Pakhawaj, Gurmukhi: ਜੋੜੀ ਪਖਾਵਜ) is a South Asian percussion instrument made up of two individual drums. The Jori originates from the Punjab region...

lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in...

removable, may be inside the frame, but this is increasingly rare on modern instruments[citation needed]. Some professional modern bodhráns integrate mechanical...

Shashmaqam) in Tajikistan. the sato, a Central Asian instrument with 5 strings. The bridge of the instrument the sato is called xarak - also the word used for...

A buki is a brass instrument from Svaneti (north-west part of Georgia). The length of the horn is 1.27 metres (4.2 ft) and the diameter of a blowing piece...

pronunciation: [viˈwela]) is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability)...

Persian musical instruments or Iranian musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories: classical, Western and folk. Most of Persian...

κιθάρα, cithara) is a class of stringed instruments, and the term also refers to a specific subset of instruments of the zither class, most usually the...

a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings, strung in six courses of two strings. It is one of the few musical instruments that still uses watch-key...

and one J-2 engines respectively. IBM and MSFC designed the rocket's instrument unit. The rocket first launched in the November 1967 Apollo 4 test flight...

contrast to many other software sequencers, Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for composing, recording, arranging...

Spoons can be played as a makeshift percussion instrument, or more specifically, an idiophone related to the castanets. They are played by hitting one...

of instruments designed specifically to be played with the guitar in a horizontal position, also known as "Hawaiian-style". The first instrument in this...

The citole was a string musical instrument, closely associated with the medieval fiddles (viol, vielle, gigue) and commonly used from 1200–1350. It was...

An ear-piercing instrument (commonly referred to as a piercing gun or an ear-piercing gun) is a device designed to pierce earlobes by driving a pointed...

ordinary least squares and ANOVA give biased results. When used, a valid instrument changes the explanatory variable (the variable correlated with the endogenous...

This is a list of musical instruments used in traditional music of Assam, India.Folk instruments of assam "Home". Anvesha.co.in. Archived from the original...

A clapper is a basic form of percussion instrument. It consists of two long solid pieces that are struck together producing sound. They exist in many forms...

Palestine. Christians practicing mortification of the flesh often use instruments of penance as they repent, with the purpose of being contrite and sharing...

a service to their assessment of the service actually delivered. The instrument was developed in the United States in the mid-1980s by researchers A....

of music was to be played exactly as written, or only by the specified instrument, without changes or omissions. The word is borrowed from Italian (an adjective...

are Zimbabwean musical instruments consisting of a pair of maranka (mapudzi) gourds with seeds. They are used as major instruments in many traditional Shona...

commodity, security, or other financial instrument from the seller at a specified price. The asset or instrument to which the option relates is known as...

list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.322 under that system. These instruments may be...

control of features and mixer control. The Launchpad is an electronic music instrument with an 8×8 grid of 64 buttons/pads and made for Ableton Live. There are...

King Musical Instruments (originally founded as the H. N. White Company) is a former musical instrument manufacturing company located in Cleveland, Ohio...

a large brass instrument in the bass-to-contrabass range. It is a member of the valved bugles, a large and diverse family of instruments characterized...

and conical-round where it is attached to the main part, gives this instrument its characteristic deep sound. A tuning-bridle called kıskaç (clip) mounted...

The Bankia is a traditional wind instrument from Rajasthan, India. It is made of bronze. It consists of a bugle-like tube and a saucer-shaped bell with...

promissory note, sometimes referred to as a note payable, is a financial instrument in which one party (the maker or issuer) promises in writing to pay a...

The bumbulum or bombulum was a musical instrument described in an apocryphal letter of St. Jerome to Caius Posthumus Dardanus, and illustrated in a series...

authorised body under powers given to them by an Act of Parliament. Statutory instruments are the most frequently used type of secondary legislation, with approximately...

Kontakt is a software sampler developed by Native Instruments. It is one of the leading applications of its type in the market. Since it allows multiple...

overall length of the instrument, typically using Porro prism or roof prism systems. The Italian inventor of optical instruments Ignazio Porro worked during...

division of instruments into haut (loud, shrill, outdoor instruments) and bas (quieter, more intimate instruments). A number of instruments have roots...

An Aeolian harp (also wind harp) is a musical instrument that is played by the wind. Named after Aeolus, the ancient Greek god of the wind, the traditional...

The bagpipe is a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Scottish Great Highland bagpipe...

The cornett (Italian: cornetto, German: Zink) is a lip-reed wind instrument that dates from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, popular from...

as enanga, ennanga, ikivuvu, and indimbagazo) is a traditional musical instrument played in Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and parts of the Democratic Republic...

"fortepiano" can designate any piano dating from the invention of the instrument by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1700 up to the early 19th century. Most typically...

General Instrument or General Instruments is part of a company name. It may refer to: General Instrument Inc.: Founded in 1939, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania...

A plasma wave instrument (PWI), also known as a plasma wave receiver, is a device capable of detecting vibrations in outer space plasma and transforming...

The octobass is an extremely large and rare bowed string instrument first built around 1850 in Paris by the French luthier Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798–1875)...

Tiba is a wind instrument made of wood or metal that originates in the Grisons canton in Switzerland. It was used by shepherds on alpine meadows in the...

ISO 10962, known as Classification of Financial Instruments (CFI), is a six-letter-code used in the financial services industry to classify and describe...

kulintang had a come to denote an entire Maguindanao ensemble of five or six instruments. Traditionally the Maguindanao term for the entire ensemble is basalen...

The sousaphone (/ˈsuːzəfoʊn/ SOO-zə-fohn) is a brass musical instrument in the tuba family. It was first created around 1893 by J. W. Pepper as a modification...

The yu (Chinese: 竽; pinyin: yú) is a free reed wind instrument used in ancient China. It is similar to the sheng, with multiple bamboo pipes fixed in a...

(Spanish: [kaˈxon] ka-KHON; "box, crate, drawer") is a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru, played by slapping the front or rear faces (generally...

(Malayalam: നാദസ്വരം) is a double reed wind instrument from Tamil Nadu. It is used as a traditional classical instrument in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana...

telescope which sends light to a Rowland-circle spectrograph, and the instrument has a field of view of 6 degrees. It is designed to capture airglow and...

Electric Products, then Texas Instruments, and, in 1984, became the president and chief operating officer of General Instrument. During the 1980s, Chang moved...

other National instruments The single inverted-cone design (also known as a spider bridge) of Dobro brand instruments and instruments that copy the Dobro...

Instrumentation is a collective term for measuring instruments, used for indicating, measuring, and recording physical quantities. It is also a field...

Instrument is the eighth studio album by German band To Rococo Rot. It was released in July 2014 under City Slang Records. "Instrument Reviews". Metacritic...

In aviation, an electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) is a flight instrument display system in an aircraft cockpit that displays flight data electronically...

Carter scratch, with which she "helped to turn the guitar into a lead instrument." It was named after her. She was a member of the original Carter Family...

the needle and suture thread are drawn through the wound. In musical instrument repair the usual term on both sides of the Atlantic is swedging, not swaging...

The seraphine is an early keyed wind instrument, something of a cross between a reed organ and an accordion, being more similar to the former. It makes...

Bengali: এস্রাজ) is a stringed instrument found in two forms throughout South Asia. It is a relatively recent instrument, being only about 300 years old...

or lihava, is an instrument of the surma-horn type, only with a mouthpiece like that of a standard trumpet made of wood. The instrument has seven to ten...

The Haas family was a German family of brass instrument makers. They had a factory in the city of Nuremberg. Johann Wilhelm Haas (baptized 6 Aug 1649,...

A rich variety of musical instruments are known from Georgia. Among the most popular instruments are blown instruments, like the soinari, known in Samegrelo...