List Of Musical Instruments
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones and membranophones) Wind instruments (aerophones) Stringed instruments (chordophones) Electronic instruments (electrophones) * AlphaSphere *Audiocubes *Bass pedals *Continuum Fingerboard *Croix Sonore *Denis d'or *Dubreq stylophone * Drum machine *Electric guitar *Electronic keyboard **Digital piano *Electronic organ * EWI * Fingerboard synthesizer *Hammond organ *Keyboard *Keytar *Kraakdoos (or cracklebox) *Laser harp *Mellotron *MIDI controller **Eigenharp **MIDI keyboard ** Seaboard *Omnichord *Ondes Martenot *Otamatone *Personal computer (when used in conjunction with a software synthesizer and DAW) **Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument) *Sampler * Skoog *Synclavier *Synthesizer * Teleharmonium *Tembûr *Tenori-on *Theremin *trautonium *Turntablism *Turntable See also * List of medieval musical instruments *List of f ...
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Batá Drum
The Batá drum is a double-headed drum shaped like an hourglass with one end larger than the other. The percussion instrument is still used for its original purpose as it is one of the most important drums in the yourba land and used for traditional and religious activities among the Yoruba. Batá drums have been used in the religion known as Santería in Cuba since the 1800s, and in Puerto Rico and the United States since the 1950s. Today, they are also used for semi-religious musical entertainment in Nigeria and in secular, popular music. The early function of the batá was as a drum of different gods, of royalty, of ancestors and a drum of politicians, impacting all spheres of life in Yoruba land. Bata drums are made by fastening skin of goats with wires on an hollowed wood body.Bata drums are made from a solid wood log from the oma tree. The drum’s shells are carved by hands and assembled in traditionally. The drums are assembled without any metal parts, the playing head ...
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