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By far the largest category of musical instruments in Native American musics, idiophones appear in many shapes and sizes and are made of extraordinarily diverse materials, from beetle wings to sections of plastic pipe.
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Wind instruments are often characterized by their number of reeds, which is typically zero, one, or two. Reedless wind instruments typically have no moving parts other than the wind (air) itself. Examples include the flute, ocarina, recorder, tin whistle, and calliope (steam whistles).
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mbira in American English (mˈbɪrə ) a hand-held African musical instrument consisting of a series of metal or wooden strips mounted on a soundboard and, often, having a resonator formed from a gourd: it is played by plucking the strips with the thumbs and forefingers.
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The djembe is one of West Africa's best known instruments. This goblet-shaped drum is traditionally carved from a single piece of African hardwood and topped with an animal skin as a drumhead. In western understanding, the drum belongs to the membranophone class of instruments in the percussion family.
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Some percussion instruments are tuned and can sound different notes, like the xylophone, timpani or piano, and some are untuned with no definite pitch, like the bass drum, cymbals or castanets.
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The instrument works on the principal of the motion of sound created or modified with the aid of water. When the edge of the bowl filled with water is stuck with wooden sticks it produces vibrations, that travels through the water and are transferred to the surrounding air to produce sweet melodic sounds.
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The alto flute is an instrument in the Western concert flute family, the second-highest member below the standard C flute after the uncommon flûte d'amour in B♭, A, or A♭. It is the third most common member of its family after the standard C flute and the piccolo.
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Some percussion instruments, and particularly many types of bell and closely related instruments, are sometimes used as pitched percussion, and at other times as unpitched percussion. Some percussion instruments, such as the snare drum, are almost always used as unpitched percussion.
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A cajón (Spanish: [kaˈxon]; "box", "crate" or "drawer") is a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru, played by slapping the front or rear faces (generally thin plywood) with the hands, fingers, or sometimes implements such as brushes, mallets, or sticks.
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The Mohican tribe is known for their Native American beadwork and baskets. Like other eastern American Indians, Mohicans also crafted wampum out of white and purple shell beads. Wampum beads were traded as a kind of currency, but they were more culturally important as an art material.
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A ukulele is a wooden instrument where the body is the part that resonates to generate the sound. A banjolele uses a drum with a vibrating head to do the same thing. Both have similar fretboards and four strings, usually tuned GCEA and are played in exactly the same way.
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The flute is one of the oldest and most widely used wind instruments. The precursors of the modern concert flute were keyless wooden transverse flutes similar to modern fifes. These were later modified to include between one and eight keys for chromatic notes.
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The xylophone (from the Greek words ξύλον—xylon, "wood" + φωνή—phōnē, "sound, voice", meaning "sound off wood") is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets.
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Tomahawks were general-purpose tools used by Native Americans and later the European colonials with whom they traded, and often employed as a hand-to-hand weapon. The metal tomahawk heads were originally based on a Royal Navy boarding ax and used as a trade-item with Native Americans for food and other provisions.
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In the series, a duduk is the sound of the tsungi horn (pictured)- an in-universe instrument. Other instruments that are both heard and seen in the series include the pipa, the veena, the ruan, the luo (gong), the erhu, the dungchen, the liuqin, the zheng, the yueqin, the zhong, and various types of flutes.
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There are five main instrument families: strings, woodwind, brass, keyboards, and percussion.