Idiophones: Plucked Instruments

Plucked idiophones can be divided into two prominent groups: the mouth harps and the thumb pianos, so called. A third group are music boxes. All three groups are based on the principle of using one or more flexible lamellae (thin, plate-like objects) that are plucked by hand or mechanically. They ...

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